On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Silas S. Brown wrote:
> Werner Icking writes:
> > w132m h175m
> > \\Largemusicsize\hsize 190mm\vsize 251mm\
>
> This works nicely for parts. It goes slightly wrong with scores
> though - when I tried it on a 3-part score, I got (alternately) a page
> with 9 staves and a page with 3 staves (maybe PMX thought it was
> fitting 12 staves on a page and MusiXTeX thought otherwise? I don't
> know, I'm not a TeX wizard).
I do not think this has anything to do with scores: if the space does
not suffice to place it on the page, pmx puts the extra system onto
the next page.
>
> I only needed a part so it's not a problem. I do wonder what one
> would do if one wanted to print a large print score though.
>
> (On the subject of scores is there any way of getting M-Tx or PMX to
> print an orchestral score? I tried using my conversion program to
> convert Beethoven's Fifth Symphony into M-Tx format, but it said
> something about not being able to do more than 7 staves, and then died
> horribly...)
>
The newest version of PMX handles 12 voices. I have set scores with
11 voices and it worked. However, the registers did not suffice to
handle an entire movement; it was necessary to subdivide the movements
into several pieces which I fused together (with an editor macro) on
the TeX-level. It needs, however, some efforts to get the geometry
right. I thought to increase the dimension of the arrays in Don's
FORTRAN program, but after I had seen that pmx is a highly sophisticated
wonder of saving spaces by overwriting registers that are not needed any
more (probably for fitting the program within the 640k barrier of DOS),
I dropped that idea...
There are certainly good reasons that nobody else has ever tried to introduce
patches into Don's program.
Good luck and happy PMXing, Christof
