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

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 ---

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

7 4:48 AM > To: Don Simons <dsim...@roadrunner.com> > Cc: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' <tex-music@tug.org> > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Staccato and tenuto above the staff > > >|Andre has provided an example that highlights the >|following "feature&q

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

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

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

>|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

>|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