> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 16:12:11 +0200
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:21:34 +0200 (MET DST), Werner Icking
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >b) can be solved similar; but maybe the repetition of the
> > meaning could be useful.
> It's more likely to be confusing -- it's rather difficult to forget
> what position your current barre is in when your finger's there
> holding it down. <grin>
Whenever I try it my finger can't hold so many strings down :-(
Maybe therefore I have to play violin.
As I wrote already in a private reply to Evita and Christian
following extension can be made - but the solution is getting
worse and worse:
Because "\ifx\T@ii\n@ii" seems to determine whether the line will
be continued or not, one may change:
\ifx\T@ii\n@ii \else\vrule height\h@lf\Interligne\fi}}%
To: \ifx\T@ii\n@ii
\global\let\octnumb@rsav\octnumber\global\let\octnumber\empty
\else
\global\let\octnumber\octnumb@rsav\vrule height\h@lf\Interligne
\fi}}%
So a line to be continued saves the definition of \octnumber and makes
it \empty; the last line restores \octnumber at the end.
With this I detected that MusiXTeX has up to \maxinstruments (?)
octaviation lines, but only one \octnumber. So if the \octnumber is
changed for a 2nd octaviation line while the first is not closed,
then the 1st will get the \octnumber of the 2nd.
> There is one other problem with your solution, and that's the
> termination. Is there a way to terminate the line just after the last
> note to fall under the barre, or even in mid-notehead? As it stands
> it's confusing and leads one to think initially that the barre needs
> to extend for one note longer than it actually does.
It depends where you want to post \Tfr. If you want to post it like
accidentals or dots or ... before coding the note you could define
e.g. \def\Tfr#{\roff{\Toctfin{#1}}} instead of the previous
\let\Tfr\Toctfin
Instead of \roff you may use \hroff or \roffset{1.5} or ...
> Werner, thanks a million for working out the solution -- I have been
> sorely missing an elegant way to indicate barres in MusiXTeX.
It's a hack, not a solution.
-- Werner
