Re: [Tex-music] Staccato and tenuto above the staff

2017-08-20 Thread Dirk Laurie
2017-08-20 16:03 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > Hi all. Could someone explain what \upzst is intended > to mean? Surely not staccato *and* tenuto, which is a > contradiction. Mezzo-staccato, also called portato. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portato --- TeX-music@tug.org ma

Re: [Tex-music] little things

2017-08-20 Thread Don Simons
I wrote >... Some day I may introduce some PMX logic to get around this > restriction in cases like this, but for now I suggest simply using inline TeX to > emplace the dot with \upz, or the tenuto with \lst... Of course I should have written \ust . --Don --- TeX-mus

Re: [Tex-music] little things

2017-08-20 Thread Don Simons
It's been interesting and a little frustrating looking into the 4 "features" Andre identified. Most of the frustration is from a combination of my fading memory and insufficient commenting in the PMX code, making it very difficult to reconstruct PMX's internal logic. But here's where I stand on the

Re: [Tex-music] Staccato and tenuto above the staff

2017-08-20 Thread Don Simons
I had already figured out that using \upz and \ust would remove the restriction. But as it now stands, PMX assumes that when these ornaments are used on single, up-beamed notes, by default they go below the notehead, so it uses \lpz, \lst. I was hoping to address this "feature" without reprogrammin

Re: [Tex-music] Staccato and tenuto above the staff

2017-08-20 Thread Bob Tennent
Hi all. Could someone explain what \upzst is intended to mean? Surely not staccato *and* tenuto, which is a contradiction. On a string instrument pizzicato-tenuto makes sense: pluck the string and then hold the note: i.e., pizzicato which is *not* staccato. But on other kinds of instrument? On a ha

Re: [Tex-music] Staccato and tenuto above the staff

2017-08-20 Thread Bob Tennent
>|Here is a simple workaround: >| >|\Notes\ibu1h2\ust o\upz n\qb1h\ust p\upz o\qb1i% >|\ust q\upz p\tbu1\qb1j\ibu1k2\ust r\upz q\qb1k% >|\ust s\upz r\qb1l\ust t\upz s\tbu1\qb1m\en% Even better is to use \upzst: \Notes\ibu1h2\upzst n\qb1h\upzst o\qb1i% \upzst p\tbu1\qb1j\ibu1k2\upzst q\qb1k%

Re: [Tex-music] Staccato and tenuto above the staff

2017-08-20 Thread Bob Tennent
>|Andre has provided an example that highlights the >|following "feature": If you try to put \lpz or \lst above >|the staff, you are restricted to every other vertical >|position. The same is not true of \upz or \ust. The \lpz and \lst are there, but the former are masked by the latter, whose