Many thanks Christof for your reply.
> > * In bar 10, if I use only a L: line instead of LS: and LT:, the lyrics
> > disappear.
> Sure, you can only have one L: per stave
Please see my earlier reply to Dirk's suggestions.
> > * 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:?
> >
> L: is always attached to the last line of the stave. If you play
> around with
> the @+/- dislocation you can of course locate the LT: above the
> alto L: which
> is wrong.
In order to illustrate, I include the M-Tx file with its DVI again without
the @+/- commands. The default placement is inconsistent with what is in the
manual: in bars 15-18 the soprano appears below its staff, and then in bars
19-23 it pops back up. The tenor and alto lyrics overlap, which is due to
the Space: command given, but I can't explain the soprano part.
[snip]
> > 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 | //
> > ^
> I do not have this error. By the way, I find all those slurs not only
> disposable but very disturbing because the text is crowded enough.
> Get rid of them by using {~ ... }~ .
Are the slurs disposable in the music or in the code? I see what you mean,
from section 1.3 Dirk describes the {} for the outer slur where they start
on the same note. But if you mean "don't put so many slurs in the piece", I
have to argue that they are an aid to performing the piece, otherwise you
would have to go only by the lyrics to know when to start or stop singing?
> > ...I would also appreciate any general comments, including
> slur, staff or
> > beam placement and the use of chords.
> >
> First of all, I commented out all additions like \mymusic because I do not
> have these files anyway. prepmxing, pmxing and texing occurred without any
> error.
The file mymusic.tex only contains redefinitions for the bar numbering that
I got from Werner, plus a bunch of other code I've commented out. I'm
including the file so you can see.
> I do not understand what the [ ] do in bar 9 and got rid of them.
I don't have any [ ] in the entire file, please show me what was bothering
you?
> Furthermore,
> I left the ties but removed all slurs. If you change the vertical
> alignment
> of the lyrics within the piece you get of course also a vertical step in
> the print. The bar numbers clash with the lyrics of the soprano, redefine.
The file mymusic.tex only contains redefinitions for the bar numbering that
I got from Werner. I still don't get how the music is correct or very
readable without the slurs. Perhaps in an SATB4 style. I will play with it
and see how it looks, though. Thanks for the idea.
> the placement of the accidentals in bar 21 T/B is not good: Place
> the sharp
> to the left of the flat, a vertical adjustement is not good.
Okay, I changed it. I did it that way because that's the way it looked in
the piece I'm basing my code off of.
We'll get this thing right, yet. :)
Cheers,
Mike
Bless.mtx
bless.dvi
