Hi M-Tx'ers,
Would someone please take a look at this M-Tx file? From bar 10 on, the
lyrics placement seems to not work as I understood it in the M-Tx manual.
I'm sure I'm doing something quite wrong, but here are some things that I
found funny (including an item from PMX). Sorry if I try your patience...
* In bar 10, if I use only a L: line instead of LS: and LT:, the lyrics
disappear.
* The same thing goes for bars 11-13 if I change LS: to L:.
* In bar 14, M-Tx is apparently expecting a syllable from the previous bars,
hence the ???'s. The tenor line also doesn't show up where I expected it to.
* In bars 15-18 and 19-23, the alto and soprano or alto and tenor lines tend
to get switched. Before sending this, it seems to magically behave, I don't
know what I did to fix it. Can anyone else reproduce any such behavior by
the selection of which line receives L:?
* In bars 16 and 17, the tie occurs inside the slur. If I code it using only
( and ), it's fine, for example:
... | d2 ( (t e | e4 )t fs ) g2 | ...
However, when I want to alter the placement of the slur, such as
... | d2 (-5 (t e | e4 )t fs )-5 g2 | ...
PMX (not M-Tx) doesn't allow it, saying
ERROR in line 151, bar 17"+|-" for slur height only allowed in "s"-slurs
v
d2 \beginmel\ e2 t-5 st | //
^
Is this correct, because it allows it in other places? Is it the presence of
the tie that affects the interpretation? (In any case, using the "s"-slur
does fix it, but I do have to change my style of assigning slurs. Poor me.)
Also note that I had to use a Hey-~-man to prevent the -man from coming in
on the F#. Why is that, I thought M-Tx held the lyrics as long as the slur
continued?
* How should the placement of the "- - -" marks on slurs behave? Why do they
adjust their vertical levels (actually, I mostly only observe this when the
funny behavior of the lyrics was going on, but look at the tenor line in bar
14, do the dashes belong to the tenor line?), and is it possible to replace
them with a single, longer mark in sections where the duration is not so
long (such as in bar 16)?
...I would also appreciate any general comments, including slur, staff or
beam placement and the use of chords.
Oh yes, please excuse the change of lyrics from "Amen", it's not meant to be
sacrilegious I needed to keep track of which voices are going where.
As I asked before, I think the piece is copyrighted somewhere, so please no
distribution.
Many thanks,
Mike
Bless.mtx
bless.dvi
