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

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

[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
reprogramming PMX. But I guess that's not possible, since (as Bob implicitly
suggests) if single, up-beamed notes appeared above the staff, there would
be ledger lines to be avoided.

> -Original Message-
> From: Bob Tennent [mailto:rdtenn...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2017 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":
> 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
> vertical positions have been *lowered* to avoid clashing with bar or
ledger
> lines.
> 
> 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%
> 
> Bob

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

[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 harpsichord, I think *any* note (which
isn't deliberately cut off) would be pizzicato-tenuto.

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

[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%
\upzst r\qb1l\upzst s\tbu1\qb1m\en%

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

[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 vertical positions have been *lowered* to
avoid clashing with bar or ledger lines.

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%

Bob
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