Bernhard Lang wrote
> Is it possible to change the general spacing pattern? -> In old music
>sometimes the whole note is something fast. So the spacing should be
>shifted e.g. like whole -> 4th, half -> 8th etc.
There is no easy way I can think of right off hand. But I guess I don't
understand the question. Unless a line becomes very crowded, the basic
spacing laws make horizontal distances proportional to the square root of
the time. So the ratio of spacings for wholes to halfs is the same as from
quarters to eighths, viz., 1.414...
2. Is it possible to prevent pmx from putting commands into the pre- and
postamble of the TeX-output which are not compatible with LaTeX (as
\nopagenumbers, \bye and all sorts of paper size commands etc.) or with
plain MusiXTeX (like \elemskip1pt, \endmuflex...)?
Again, I cannot think of any easy way. But stay tuned, Werner may weigh in
with something here. And again, I don't fully understand the question. All
PMX commands had better be compatible with MusiXTeX. I don't know what you
mean by "plain MusiXTeX." MusiXTeX is inherently a 3-pass system. The 1-pt
\elemskip is specified to absolutely guarantee no lines are too long on the
first pass. On the 2nd pass, musixflx scales it up as required for the 3rd
pass.
--Don Simons
