In a private email, Werner suggested "setting" such a marker within PMX at
the start, "measuring" the distance to the end, and then inserting the
hairpin starting at the end point:
\zcharnote{[level]}{\kern-[distance]\hairpin{[distance]}\kern[distance]} .
I'll be looking at that possibility over the upcoming 4th of July
weekend...Howard, that's when we Yanks celebrate our independence from
you-know-who :-) .
--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HowardGilbert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 2:13 AM
> To: Werner Icking; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PMX - hairpins - \zcharnote
>
>
> Werner Icking wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 23:12:00 +0100
>
> > Up to now, MusiXTeX does not support line breaking of hairpins.
> > And hairpins are only available up to a length of about 7 cm.
> >
> > -- Werner
> >
> > PS: It's a pity that \varline is not flexible enough for hairpins.
> >
> > 1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0
> > 1 2 20 0
> >
> > t
> > ./
> >
> > \\let\ns\noteskip\
> > \\let\af\afterruleskip\
> > \\let\vl\varline\
> >
> > \vl{-3}{1.5\ns}1\off{-1.5\ns}\vl{-3}{1.5\ns}{-1}\off{-1.5\ns}\ f44 f f
> > \vl{-3}{1.0\ns}1\off{-1.0\ns}\vl{-3}{1.0\ns}{-1}\off{-1.0\ns}\ f /
> > \off{-\af}\vl{-3}{2.0\ns}1\off{-2.0\ns}\vl{-4}{2.0\ns}{-1}\off{-2.0\ns}\
> > \off{\af}\ f44 f f f /
> >
>
> Very ingenious, but a bit tedious to do for each instrument in a score!
>
> What we seem to need are two markers in each intrument line and a (pre-PMX
> scan?) routine to calculate the distance between them and then apply the
> first
> part off your method. Or, if a line break occurs,calculate two separate
> distances and apply the second part of your method, (I guess this would
> have to
> be done at the tex stage). I think I'd be reasonably happy to just to
> restart
> another hairpin after the line break rather than the extra complication of
> the
> slightly open start hairpin which you use.
>
> Best wishes,
> Howard.
> (A.H.Gilbert, Thornaby, North Yorkshire)
