Stephan Kohns wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I need to typeset several pieces of music, some of which are the melody for
> singing psalms. Since the numbers of lines per verse and the number of
> syllables per line varies, some notes have vertical bars around them (like
> the absolute value sign in mathematics, but I don't know what they are
> called in music - I'm an amteur in this field) and others are in
> parentheses - both symbols indicate how to adapt the melody to the varying
> length of the text. The following ASCII-symbols try to indicate what I want
> to obtain:
>
> ------
> -|o|--
> ------
> --(o)-
> ------
>
> I'm an experienced user of LaTeX but I have never worked with musixtex
> before. According to the documentation, it seems possible to add parentheses
> to notes, but I didn't find a similar command for vertical bars. Is it still
> possible to do this in (vertical bars for single notes as well as chords)?
>
Recent versions of MusiXTeX offer --|o|-- as \wq and --||o||-- as \wqq
Hope that helps
Bye
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