Hi all,
I'd like to add a few notes to that OpusTeX thread:
1. One of the big side-steps from MusiXTeX Andreas wanted to do is to
remove the collect coding of noteheads, i.e. no \qu{cdef}.
2. Among the syntax cleanup, OpusTeX is also considerably faster.
As the author of the PS slurs, ties and crescendo addon I could say
this: If there is anyone willing to adapt the opusps.tex to MusiXTeX,
just tell me, I can support this effort. I am not using MusiXTeX, so I
have no motivation to do this, but I know it would be a big improvement
for MusiXTeX community. And not very hard to do - you do not have to
know anything about PostScript...
As for the disappointment Erwin wrote about - in one of his scores there
once appeared a bug causing division by 0 in the resulting PS code. But
I was not able to reproduce this bug, so I can't fix it.
If there is someone bold enough, let me know.
Stanislav Kneifl.
Erwin Achermann wrote:
>>now I remember that Werner once in a private email refered to OpusTeX
>>drawing ties/slurs by means of postscript drawing and that he imagined
>>that as a possible enhancement of MusiXTeX. Do you think it would be
>>doable to do so by means of some sort of extra processing of MusiXTeX
>>code?
>>
>
> I remember that it worked, but i also remember that it was somehow
> disappointing, and i don't remember the technical details. In principle
> it is surely doable in MusiXTeX too, but the devil is in the (many)
> details--as you know. And the question is whether this Ansatz would be
> portable to pdf too. Nowadays one would probably do something in
> MetaPost which produces a subset of postscript that can be imported into
> pdf too.... It was Stanislav Kneifl who implemented the ps-slur.sty. And
> his work is probably also in the opustex0.84 package, as a starting
> point for a wizard out there, anyone?
>
> :)
>
> Cheers
> Erwin
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