Re: [Tex-music] music typesetting question

2014-10-29 7:41 GMT+02:00 Jean-Pierre Coulon coulon...@free.fr: On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Dirk Laurie wrote: http://imslp.org/wiki/Dichter_und_Bauer_(Supp%C3%A9,_Franz_von) Which score or part ? The second full score (my bandwidth is not enough for the other). --- TeX

Re: [Tex-music] music typesetting question

2014-10-29 8:57 GMT+02:00 Jean-Pierre Coulon coulon...@free.fr: I would be offended with the corresponding situation with rests. Yes, even in 3/4 time I was taught never to use half-note rests. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at

[Tex-music] Why does this work under 4/4 but not 2/4?

I have a strophic song with an upbeat, a refrain, and a last-verse volta. It's not pretty to revert to four verses just for the last note before the repeat, so I repeat from the beginning. Now the curious thing is this: if the meter is 4/4, this works. But if I change absolutely nothing except

Re: [Tex-music] Scanner Input for PMX

2014-11-05 15:39 GMT+02:00 Dieter d.gloet...@web.de: In the last two weeks I have been working on a prototype which reads in MusicXML and spits out the notes part for PMX. I include as example a christmas carol for SATB. After scanning there remained some inaccuracies, which could easily

Re: [Tex-music] Scanner Input for PMX

2014-11-05 15:39 GMT+02:00 Dieter d.gloet...@web.de: Of course, my little prototype does not (yet) completely implement MusicXML. That is not necessary. All that is needed is that it should implement those features of what the scanner software outputs that have a counterpart in PMX. Another

Re: [Tex-music] Scanner Input for PMX

2014-11-10 23:28 GMT+02:00 Christian Mondrup rec...@icking-music-archive.org: There are indeed problems in the xml lyrics: lots of missing hyphens and obviously wrong words like 'io-fty', bar 11 soprano. These problems are not (yet) reflected in the pmx output rendering no lyrics at all. Are

Re: [Tex-music] curly.tex and tuplet.tex

2015-02-02 22:09 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie dirk.lau...@gmail.com: 2015-02-02 21:53 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: [content-free reply] Sorry about that. Twitchy fingers. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go

Re: [Tex-music] curly.tex and tuplet.tex

2015-02-02 21:53 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: Dear all: I propose to incorporate the definitions in these extension libraries into musixtex.tex. The reason is that Karl Berry, ever-vigilant for possible file-name clashes in TeXLive, feels the file names are too generic and I've

Re: [Tex-music] curly.tex and tuplet.tex

2015-02-03 10:10 GMT+02:00 David Allsopp dra-n...@metastack.com: Out of curiosity, why can't they simply be renamed (e.g. musixcurly and musixtuplet, or something?) and given proper headers like other MusiXTeX modules? MK's original posting had no filename. It consisted of lines of TeX code

Re: [Tex-music] Fine tuning of staff distance in PMX

2015-02-08 20:22 GMT+02:00 Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com: Dirk did build some stuff into M-Tx to deal with this The two commands in mtx.tex used for this purpose are: \def\mtxInterInstrument#1#2{\setinterinstrument{#1}{#2\Interligne}} \def\mtxStaffBottom#1{\staffbotmarg #1\Interligne}

Re: [Tex-music] Lyrics and Chord Symbols

2015-01-14 18:07 GMT+02:00 Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com: But I will mention that the last note came out with lyrics ???. I'm guessing that for some reason my setup thinks there are one too few syllables in the text. Can anyone else reproduce this behavior? Or maybe my musixlyr is out of

[Tex-music] xdvi crashes while searching in musixdoc.dvi

2015-02-17 5:22 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: P.S. Who wrote I hate LaTeX in a comment in musixdoc.tex? :+) This has been in there as long as I have been using MusiXTeX [1] and I cannot imagine that anyone other than Daniel Taupin wrote it. The comment expresses understandable

Re: [Tex-music] musixlyr # musixtnt

2015-01-27 17:12 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: Hi all. I'm finding that musixtnt.tex (which provides a user-friendly macro \TransformNotes that re-defines \vnotes) is incompatible with musixlyr.tex. Monkey-patching is marvellous if and only if just one monkey at a time does the

Re: [Tex-music] musixlyr # musixtnt

2015-01-27 23:26 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: But can you modify an existing source in whatever notation you do like so that + one of the instruments is transposed Yes, PMX can do that. + one of the instruments is set in tiny notes Ditto. + two of four instruments are

Re: [Tex-music] musixlyr # musixtnt

on Dirk Laurie and Don Simons respectively. I'll collaborate with anyone who wishes to undertake this task, but to so it all by myself would miss the main point of doing it. And did you have any success in exporting to (or was it importing from) MusicXML? Project not dead, but dormant

Re: [Tex-music] Lyrics and Chord Symbols

2015-01-12 19:44 GMT+02:00 Simon Feiler gonz...@gmx.de: after searching the WIMA for several days I understood so far, that the proper way of typesetting music including lyrics is using M-Tx. Oh, the proper is a little strong, a convenient is better. I did not find a way to add chord

Re: [Tex-music] Funny article about Word vs. LaTeX

2015-01-13 22:55 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: I suspect it's Microsoft-sponsored. The authors actually deny that quite explicitly. Asking LaTeX users to achieve a standard Word format is hardly a fair experiment. How would Word users fare trying to achieve a standard LaTeX

Re: [Tex-music] Jazz text font

2015-02-25 6:07 GMT+02:00 Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com: I'd like to typeset some jazz pieces. As a start to making it look like a real fake book, I'd like to do the text in the jazz text font, for which I've located and installed a true type version from the file JazzText_Regular.ttf.

Re: [Tex-music] Hard vertical space in PMX

2015-04-26 5:55 GMT+02:00 Andre Van Ryckeghem a...@telenet.be: In 2004, i made some examples on how to change the pagelayout. On http://www.avrmar.be/pagelayout/ there is a pdf file with explanation and a zip file with the pmx source Thanks, that is very useful. The link to CCN's PMX

[Tex-music] Hard vertical space in PMX

I have a piece which I tell PMX to spread over 2 pages, 8 systems. It's a bit crowded on Page 1 because I have three verses of lyrics above the top line of each system, and rather loose on Page 2. So I say 7 systems. Page 1 now has three systems and Page 2 four, as I expected, but Page 1 is no

Re: [Tex-music] Hard vertical space in PMX

2015-04-24 23:56 GMT+02:00 dsim...@roadrunner.com: It's nice to see some PMX activity! Lack of list activity does not mean PMX is not used, it merely means it works satisfactorily. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the

[Tex-music] Default rest position with two music lines in PMX

The default position for rests is on the lowest staff line. This particular piece (in A flat) is very fond of having a rest for the alto just when there is a low E flat for the soprano, which happens often. Is there a quick way of telling PMX to please put the rest lower by default?

Re: [Tex-music] autosp (a new preprocessor)

2015-04-22 22:37 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: Download the autosp package from http://icking-music-archive.org/software/autosp/autosp.zip That zipfile was empty on Wed Apr 22 23:20:51 GMT+02:00. The other files in the directory appear to be OK, though.

Re: [Tex-music] autosp (a new preprocessor)

2015-04-22 22:37 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: For example, \anotes\qa J\qa K\ca l\qa m\ca n\en generates \Notes\qa J\sk\qa K\sk\ca l\qa m\sk\ca n\en The chosen syntax suggests that a design goal is that in some future implementation \anotes could be a TeX macro.

[Tex-music] PMX feature request: pitch arguments for macros

I find that very often composers use little rhythmic figures over and over and over, varying only the pitch of the notes. For example, right now I am coding a piece for SATB in which the bottom three voices just go like this for bars at a time: r8 c8 c.c c8 r8 r4 It would be nice to define the

[Tex-music] mupsviewle

André van Ryckeghem's edition of Schubert's Deutsche Messe etc uses mupsviewle.bat to make PS from MusiXTeX. It would be trivial to translate it to bash but maybe now that we have Bob Tennent's system-independent lua-based scripts it is not necessary. To my untrained eye, the results obtained by

Re: [Tex-music] bar-centered rests

2015-05-19 6:24 GMT+02:00 Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com: So if you do decide to go forward with redefining \centerbar, it would be less of a nuisance overall to leave pmxab.for alone and redefine \pausc and \PAusc in pmx.tex. Long ago, for this sort of reason, I reduced the amount of

Re: [Tex-music] stem offsets

! Undefined control sequence. l.4 \NOtes\sk\qa n\ibu0h0\qb0h\tqu 0h\en 2015-06-22 15:21 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: I've received a complaint that stems are slightly offset to the right. Check out the output of the following MWE at very high

Re: [Tex-music] XML2PMX is ready for testing

2015-07-03 16:20 GMT+02:00 Dieter d.gloet...@web.de: right now we are in beta test. I want my tool to get a bit of mileage (and further improve it) before I release it. Under obe...@lists.inf.ethz.ch is a very active Oberon community targeting Unix as well as micro controllers. I am sure,

[Tex-music] Add-ons in Lua? (Was: XML2PMX is ready for testing

2015-07-02 22:28 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: The program is written in Oberon Continuing a time-honoured tradition of MusiXTeX add-ons in languages that only the developers themselves are comfortable with; I'm as guilty as any, what with M-Tx being written in Pascal. It means that

Re: [Tex-music] XML2PMX is ready for testing

2015-07-02 22:28 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: | it took a bit more time than I had expected, but now | XML2PMX, a converter (on MS Windows) from Recordare Inc | MusicXML to PMX is ready for testing. | | |Is there a way to run the software under Linux? The program is

Re: [Tex-music] Implied license

2015-07-24 17:06 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca: | Suppose I borrow some TeX code off there and use it in something | I distribute on a site that demands everything must be licensed. | |Do you mean 1: the MusiXTeX or PMX source of a score present on WIMA or |2: a

Re: [Tex-music] Implied license

2015-07-24 18:23 GMT+02:00 Jean-Pierre Coulon coulon...@free.fr: On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Dirk Laurie wrote: Apart from some small examples (quod.tex, barsant.pmx, etc.) and ancient scores due to Daniel Taupin etc., scores at WIMA are in fact scores at IMSLP, which must have a CC licence

[Tex-music] Size of accidentals

I have noticed that when I have speciified a slightly parsimonious number of systems, some accidentals are silently set in a smaller font. Is this feature (of PMX, I think; there are \na and \bigna in the TeX file) documented anywhere? Isn't this something that should generate a warning message?

[Tex-music] Implied license

Much of the material on WIMA is not explicitly licensed. Suppose I borrow some TeX code off there and use it in something I distribute on a site that demands everything must be licensed. Can I assume that code submitted to WIMA is automatically GPL unless explicitly stated otherwise?

Re: [Tex-music] Metronomic indications in PMX

2015-10-23 14:34 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > Can anyone suggest a suitable fix to the definition of > \metron? It's currently > > \def\metron#1#2{{\stemlength\f@ur\noteskip\t@n\p@ #1 1\ = #2}} > > Or better examples in the manual, currently > > \metron{\hup}{60} >

Re: [Tex-music] Non-spacing rests?

2015-11-14 15:46 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > 2015-11-14 15:28 GMT+02:00 Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon...@free.fr>: >> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Dirk Laurie wrote: >> >>> You mean the piece available as http://imslp.org/wiki/File:BWV0787.pdf?

Re: [Tex-music] Non-spacing rests?

2015-11-14 13:39 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina : > I didn't find in the MusiXTeX manual a command to type a non-spacing rest, > analogous to, e.g., \zql{p} for a non-spacing note. In polyphonic scores, > non-spacing rests often occur. Now I'm typing in MusiXTeX language the

Re: [Tex-music] Non-spacing rests?

2015-11-14 15:28 GMT+02:00 Jean-Pierre Coulon <coulon...@free.fr>: > On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Dirk Laurie wrote: > >> You mean the piece available as http://imslp.org/wiki/File:BWV0787.pdf? >> Those are not non-spacing rests, they are ordinary rests in the middle &g

Re: [Tex-music] Non-spacing rests?

2015-11-14 16:07 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina : > I just saw at > > http://imslp.org/wiki/15_Sinfonias,_BWV_787-801_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian) > > the pmw source files. Any possibility of convertion pmw -> MusiXTeX? ;-) A new release of PMW appeared in February 2014. It

Re: [Tex-music] Non-spacing shifted notes belonging to a beam

2015-09-04 11:12 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina : > I want the note `k', starting the beam, to be non-spacing and shifted left. > Don't know how. I code in M-Tx [-3 c8+ zbe c za c zg c zf- ] PMX gives me \ibl1g0\lq{'b}\qb1c\zq a\qb1c\zq{`g}\qb1{'c}\zq{`f}\tbl1\qb1{'c} See

[Tex-music] [ANN] musixtex.lua 0.15-rc1

e messages that scroll past like lightning to a temporary file. Shout hard enough and we'll make that the default, providing instead an option for getting the hailstorm. All feedback welcome. Dirk Laurie and Bob Tennent --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to u

[Tex-music] [ANN] M-Tx 0.61

2015-11-26 10:07 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > M-Tx got stuck at 0.60 for quite a while. You can now build 0.61 > on Linux by: > > $ git clone https://github.com/dlaurie/M-Tx > $ cd M-Tx > $ make The version of M-Tx 0.61 on GitHub has now been tagge

[Tex-music] Hard-to-understand error message from PMX

The message: You entered an invalid note-length value: -16 The input file: Attached. The pmxaerr line number: 0 The error: It should be w120m, not w120mm. A possibly more informative error message and line number: Extra character (m) in command (w) 16 mozart.pmx Description: Binary data

Re: [Tex-music] New version 2.71 of PMX

2016-01-03 0:21 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > >|my pmxab.exe is an old one (from pmx2704). > > That will generate the 3-argument call of \mbrest. There shoud be no such thing as a distinction between a "3-argument call" and any other call of a TeX macro. This really highlights

Re: [Tex-music] New version 2.71 of PMX

2016-01-02 18:55 GMT+02:00 Christian Mondrup : > Bob Tennent wrote: >> >> >|Andre: >> >| >> >|You should be getting >> >| >> >|\def\atnextbar{\znotes\mbrest3\en}% >> >> Check which pmxab you're using. >> > > The sample from André's log file reports the PMX

Re: [Tex-music] Redefining \txt

2016-01-06 17:35 GMT+02:00 Raphaela : > How do I go about doing this without breaking anything? I would like > the triolet number to be typeset in six-point font size rather than > eight-point, and to that end I tried to define \sixit on the analogy > of \eightit (i.e.

[Tex-music] Collaborators solicited

at writing the necessary components is invited to contact me off-list. The requirements are: 1. A desire to have those components available. 2. Reasonable Lua programming skills. Title: PanSong PanSong Dirk Laurie January 2016 PanSong is a tool for converting from one music-from-text notation

Re: [Tex-music] Hairpins in PMX

2016-01-01 12:27 GMT+02:00 Dieter : > > a04 D< D< | / > a04 D> | / ... > Is this the recommended modeling or are there alternatives? Look at the TeX file generated by PMX. You will see \hpstrt10\hpcend100 Experiment with the parameters. When you get the result right,

[Tex-music] [ANN] musixtex.lua 0.16

2015-12-03 7:14 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > The musixtex.lua script has been very substantially expanded to become > a Swiss Army knife of MusiXTeX processing. The version at > > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixtex.lua > > s

Re: [Tex-music] New version 2.71 of PMX

mxab and/or autosp as pre-processors (and deletes intermediate files) (c) Copyright 2011-2015 Bob Tennent r...@cs.queensu.ca and Dirk Laurie dirk.lau...@gmail.com This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of

[Tex-music] Scope of accidentals

I have encountered some disagreement on the scope of accidentals. This is how I have it: An accidental applies only to the line or interstice on which it appears, and is implied for following notes in the same measure, or for the first note of the next measure if tied, unless

Re: [Tex-music] Source code repositories

2015-11-24 17:02 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : > I could possibly be convinced to pursue this, but I'm not at the moment. If > someone else wants to take the reins, be my guest. The reason why most of my projects have repositories is that it covers me against disasters. Last

Re: [Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61

2015-11-26 10:07 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > I am also, to my shock, no longer qualified to build the documentation > from scratch. In my own development directory it builds, but when > I try it from source in a fresh directory, up pops a nasty message > whi

Re: [Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61

2015-11-27 7:07 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > 2015-11-26 10:07 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > >> I am also, to my shock, no longer qualified to build the documentation >> from scratch. In my own development directory it builds, bu

Re: [Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61

2015-11-27 14:54 GMT+02:00 Christian Mondrup <rec...@icking-music-archive.org>: > Dirk Laurie wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I am also, to my shock, no longer qualified to build the documentation >>>> from scratch. In my own development directory it bu

Re: [Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61

2015-11-28 12:43 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > 2015-11-27 14:54 GMT+02:00 Christian Mondrup > <rec...@icking-music-archive.org>: >> Dirk Laurie wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I am also, to my shock, no longer qua

Re: [Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61

2015-11-28 19:56 GMT+02:00 Christian Mondrup : > cd doc > make > ... > ! I can't find file `title.tex'. > ...tore \begin {mus} \input title.tex > \bigskip \end {mus} \@@par > l.44 }} Well, 'title' is listed in

Re: [Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61

2015-11-29 16:18 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > Note that even 0.60d produces a pmx file on macro.mtx that > causes pmxab to generate > > ERROR in line 13, bar 1 "MS..." only put in parts by scor2prt if in voice #1 > v > MS1 c85 za zf zc M [u MP1 MP1 MP1 MP1 ] [u MP1 MP1 MP1

[Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61

M-Tx got stuck at 0.60 for quite a while. You can now build 0.61 on Linux by: $ git clone https://github.com/dlaurie/M-Tx $ cd M-Tx $ make I am no longer qualified to say what you need to do on other systems, beyond the surmise that whatever worked for 0.60 should still work. I have removed from

Re: [Tex-music] Source code repositories

2015-11-25 6:00 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > David: What would be the "myriad benefits"? > Git was designed for distributed development, I have found Git useful even when I am the only developer. (a) It forces me to think in terms of goals. (b) It provides multi-stage backup.

Re: [Tex-music] pmx270 odd rm3

2016-01-11 9:59 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : > Most of my recent work has been on getting horizontal spacing right with > multibar and centered full bar rests. A somewhat unfortunate downside is > that if you made a score with an earlier PMX and made either manual PMX or >

Re: [Tex-music] progress with XML2PMX

2016-01-13 12:02 GMT+02:00 Dieter : > I had thought, that "w" and "h" were the dimensions of the notes > surrounding rectangle. But that does not seem to be the case. They translate directly to \vsize and \hsize. I think PMX takes them into account when deciding how long a

Re: [Tex-music] progress with XML2PMX

2016-01-11 18:44 GMT+02:00 Dieter : > Also what I do not understand, why the piece starts with an empty page. Any > idea? \vsize is larger than the default paper size. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the

Re: [Tex-music] PMX 2.72

2016-01-13 20:04 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > Don is having enough trouble compiling pmxab without having > to deal with libf2c issues. Let's be clear on this. f2c and p2c are legacy kludges, dating back to the 1990's and not well maintained. It may be CTAN policy to allow only

Re: [Tex-music] pmx270 odd rm3

2016-01-13 18:57 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : >> pmxab has up to now steered clear of commandline parameters. >> But as the need for manual adjustments grows less and less, a parameter >> that says "ignore manual adjustments" or "ignore words starting with X" > may >> be useful.

Re: [Tex-music] PMX 2.72

2016-01-11 22:46 GMT+02:00 : > Here are links to the new version of PMX: > > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx272.zip > > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx.zip > > pmx272.zip is the Dos/Windows version I put together, while pmx.zip is one >

Re: [Tex-music] musixtex.tex 2016-01-04

2016-01-04 12:51 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > I've also uploaded the current draft of the manual for > version 1.21: > > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixdoc.pdf On the titlle page: it should be Biebricher, not Biericher. ---

Re: [Tex-music] PMX 2.72

2016-01-11 22:46 GMT+02:00 : > Here are links to the new version of PMX: > > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx272.zip > > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx.zip ... > All testing on PMX 2.72 will be greatly appreciated. I append a file

[Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61a

I have pushed to https://github.com/dlaurie/M-Tx a version that exploits the improved multibar rests in MusiXTeX and PMX, resulting in a net code saving of about 45 lines. Thanks Bob and Don! If you already have a cloned repository, 'git pull` is all you need. This is not yet a release, only

Re: [Tex-music] Help please

2016-01-17 11:15 GMT+02:00 David Allsopp <dra-n...@metastack.com>: > Dirk Laurie wrote: >> After the latest changes to M-Tx on GitHub, I was tempted to remove >> "\input pmx" from mtx.tex since it is no longer needed there and will be >> input from the .tex fi

Re: [Tex-music] Help please

2016-01-17 14:28 GMT+02:00 David Allsopp <dra-n...@metastack.com>: > Dirk Laurie wrote: >> So the clean solution is to take "\input pmx" out of mtx.tex (which does >> not need it) and put it inside the \mtxlatex command in mtxlatex.sty, >> which by

[Tex-music] Is this now obsolete?

The M-Tx manual has since time immemorial contained this paragraph, which I have a strong mind to delete. "You can tune the appearance of the rest by appending a signed integer to the word, e.g. rm19+18. Roughly speaking, this moves the front end of the rest to the right by 18 points. Since

[Tex-music] Google's PDF viewer sucks

You probably know the truth of the subject line already. But just in case it slipped your mind for a moment, as it did mine: Never judge the quality of a PDF file made by MusiXTeX by viewing it directly from GMail. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to

Re: [Tex-music] Is this now obsolete?

2016-01-16 22:58 GMT+02:00 Don Simons <dsim...@roadrunner.com>: > Dirk Laurie wrote >> >> The M-Tx manual has since time immemorial contained this paragraph, which >> I have a strong mind to delete. >> >> "You can tune the appearance of the rest by ap

Re: [Tex-music] Sibelius to PMX

2016-01-17 0:10 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : > Is it possible? Possible, yes. Possible by open-source tools, no (as yet). Sibelius can export to MusicXML, and Dieter can convert that to PMX. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to

Re: [Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61a

2016-01-16 11:29 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > I have pushed to >https://github.com/dlaurie/M-Tx > a version that exploits the improved multibar rests in MusiXTeX > and PMX, resulting in a net code saving of about 45 lines. Thanks > Bob and Don! &g

[Tex-music] PMX automatic beams

I seldom use automatic beams since most music I typeset is vocal. However, instrumentalists seem to like beams better than unbeamed notes, so I made a version with beams and lyrics. It's not very nice. 1. The stems are often uncomfortably short. Is there a way to tell PMX "never make a stem

Re: [Tex-music] PMX automatic beams

2016-02-08 1:01 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : > I suppose I could look into that. Don, creating yet more work for an already overworked man is the last thing I wish to do. I was hoping that people who regularly use PMX could help me with a feature newer than say 15 years old,

Re: [Tex-music] PMX automatic beams

2016-02-08 8:15 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : > I hope to have this all documented and available soon. What about an "examples" subdirectory in the distribution zipfile containing some selected scores by ingenious users? Or at least a simple HTML file with the links to where

Re: [Tex-music] beam-slur termination

2016-01-30 19:31 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > if font-based slurs must be used, The fact that this clause appears in a post on TeX-music puts the finger on a sore point. Ideally, he user of MusiXTeX should not need to know that there is a difference between font-based and PS

[Tex-music] How easy is MikTeX to install?

On another mailing list, someone said: Libraries apart, I seem to remember that last time I installed MikTeX it wasn't exactly the click-and-forget experience most users are looking for (or is it my poor memory?) Is that still a fair comment nowadays? ---

Re: [Tex-music] Piano pedal notation

2016-01-21 19:05 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > >|, i.e. a straight and breaking line below the staff, something like this: > >| > >| > >| |__| > > For this, use \unbkt{p}{n}{0} where p is the pitch and n is > the length in

Re: [Tex-music] Bracket alternatives for PMX s and t slurs

2016-01-20 17:39 GMT+02:00 Don Simons : > According to the comments in pmxab.for, in version 2.502 (April 2004) you > were the one who coded ”{” and “}” into PMX in the first place. J It seems to have been simply replacing index("st()",charq) by index("st(){}",charq).

Re: [Tex-music] piano pedal notation

2016-01-25 20:10 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > Apart from dealing with line breaks, I believe the only > problems are the horizontal rules (there are two of them) > under the "bigwedge" in \pdlud. But eliminating them > is beyond my TeXpertise (and/or knowledge of musixtex >

[Tex-music] Bracket alternatives for PMX s and t slurs

Have I missed something all these years? The attached PMX file (also given below) compiles perfectly and gives the first pdf attachment. If I take out the A labels on the slurs, it gives the second pdf attachment. As you can see, the sequence (+4 f2d { e4 | e } )+3 which is supposed to be

Re: [Tex-music] scor2prt error

> >|At line 336 of file scor2prt.for (unit = 10, file = '3v01.pmx') > >|Fortran runtime error: Sequential READ or WRITE not allowed after EOF > >|marker, possibly use REWIND or BACKSPACE > >|*** > > The Fortran line in question is > > read(10,'(a)',end=999)line > > Could someone familiar with

Re: [Tex-music] scor2prt error

2016-02-18 17:48 GMT+02:00 Don Simons <dsim...@roadrunner.com>: > Dirk Laurie wrote >> It means approximately this (in pseudo-Python pseudocode): >> >> try: read(10,'(a)')line >> catch(EOF): goto 999 >> >> 999 is 'continue' so it goes on and reads ag

Re: [Tex-music] Umlaut o

2016-02-18 22:38 GMT+02:00 : > But first I'll have to refresh my memory about whether > I can use inline TeX at all inside a lyrics string; You can, but don't terminate it with a space (that confuses musixlyr). Put it in braces. ---

Re: [Tex-music] Umlaut o

2016-02-18 20:31 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie <dirk.lau...@gmail.com>: > 2016-02-18 17:43 GMT+02:00 Don Simons <dsim...@roadrunner.com> > >> Next, when I run pmx, the pasted umlaut o does get copied >> into the tex file, but when tex'ing the result, it is not recogniz

Re: [Tex-music] Umlaut o

2016-02-20 15:55 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > Don: I keep an "accents" file in my home folder and copy > from it whenever I need an accented character. Some years ago I made a selection of Unicode characters I thought I might need. Enjoy! Getting Unicode characters into your

Re: [Tex-music] PMX 2.73

2016-02-01 12:46 GMT+02:00 Dieter : > Let me point out, that PMX has been capable of handling lyrics > with musixlyr (without M-Tx), since I started to work with PMX > many years ago. > > However this new solution is much more transparent and > easier to use, than before. As

Re: [Tex-music] Slurs and Grace Notes

% Part, staff, voice( 1|Piano| 1| 1), Bar 4 G1m3sd6 [l e85l za5 zc6 G1m3sd6 e85l za5 zc6 G1m3sd6 e85l za5 zc6 (1l G1m3sd6 e85l )1 ] za5 zc6 | / Change the order of notes in the chord form e,a,c to c,e,a. 2016-03-09 13:31 GMT+02:00 Dieter : > Hi, > > please have a look

Re: [Tex-music] Converter from MusicXML to PMX available

2016-04-05 14:47 GMT+02:00 Dieter : > http://icking-music-archive.org/software/xml2pmx/XML2PMX_linux.tar.gz The filename should have `LINUX`, not `linux`. Easiest is to copy-and-paste only the directory name, your browser will offer the files. ---

Re: [Tex-music] Does anybody know of a .wma to midi converter?

2016-04-06 10:55 GMT+02:00 Christian Mondrup : > conversion from midi to sound format (wma, mp3 etc) is rather straight > forward. But not so for conversion from sound recordings to midi. This task, > music recognition, is a non trivial task. In its nature it

Re: [Tex-music] [M-Tx] One Note with more than one Word

Depending on whether it is the last syllable: a-men a-men___ Number or hyphens/underscores = number of notes - 1 2016-03-21 21:52 GMT+02:00 HF. Steffani : > I am setting psalms with TeX and I want to use M-Tx for this. One > peculiarity that there is one note

Re: [Tex-music] [M-Tx] One Note with more than one Word

2016-03-21 23:45 GMT+02:00 HF. Steffani : > dirk.laurie at gmail.com wrote: >> If you mean several words to one note: > >>as~it~was~in~the~beginning > That's what I am looking for. But I am still not satisfied. With this the > note is centered above the text but I want the

Re: [Tex-music] [M-Tx] One Note with more than one Word

2016-03-22 21:31 GMT+02:00 HF. Steffani : > I had a look to the musixlyr-documentation That is a good idea. There are other things too that are occasionally needed but not provided as an abstraction in M-Tx. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If

Re: [Tex-music] [M-Tx] One Note with more than one Word

2016-03-22 21:58 GMT+02:00 HF. Steffani : > den~{Un - wis - sen}-den macht es wei-se musixtex treats all hyphens as syllable breaks. You need something like {\lyrhyphen} otherwise. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or

Re: [Tex-music] headlines with musixsty

2016-03-03 23:18 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent : > musixdoc.pdf says that TeX prints the contents of the > control sequences \headline and \footline at the top and > bottom respectively of every page. But not if one inputs > musixsty.tex. How can I get a "headline" if I input >

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