> From: "Silas S. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:50:45 +0100 (BST)
> 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? [...]
PMX thinks - and sometime it thinks wrong esp. when overfooled by
some damned tricks. MusiXTeX does not think. It simply fills a page
with lines of music until TeX believes that the page is full or
until there is an explicit "eject" (alapage) as PMX uses it.
If the 9 staves really fill the page without too much space between
the staves, then my modifications have successfully confused PMX.
In that case you can play with "h175m". Reducing it should convince
PMX to put less staves on the page so that the pages do not overflow
during the (MusiX)TeX run. Reduce the h-value until PMX does not put
more than 9 staves to the page.
If you think that more than 9 staves should fit to the page then you
may try to use PMX's "Ai" or "AI" or to increase the h-value.
The vsize value of 251mm is derived from letter-size paper. It's
279mm high; minus 20mm for two 10mm margins result in 259mm. The
remaining 8 mm are ment for a footline as I use it.
-- Werner
