Hi Andre and all,
as I ported the PS slurs from OpusTeX to MusiXTeX just for the
community, I do not use MusiXTeX, M-Tx or PMX myself. Therefore,
if you ask for some enhancement or point out some oddity in the slurs,
enclose please the TeX source file for me.
Concerning the slur breaking issue - we have discussed this recently
with Christian Mondrup. One problem is that previous versions of PMX
used slurs instead of ties for equally pitched notes. If you correct
this, you will solve also most of the incorrectly breaked slurs (ties
are breaked across a line much more often than slurs).
Secondly, I have chosen the somewhat sloped first part of the breaked
slur for some reasons:
- at the time of the break you can not know (in TeX, not in PMX)
anything about the ending pitch of the slur,
- to minimize the number of cases where the collision between slur and
the notes at the end of the line would have to be solved manually,
- even for a "horizontal" group it is better to visually emphasize the
fact that the slur continues to the next system.
I can add some switch for this, but I personally don't think it is
really necessary (at least if people will use real ties instead of slurs).
Best regards,
Stanislav Kneifl.
Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote:
> This is what i mean (remove the comment (%) for seeing the difference):
> If this could be solved then the ps slurs are wonderfull.
> ----------
> 1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0
> 0 1 20 0
>
> t
> ./
> %Ap
> w20m
> a45 s g /
> e45 s g /
> ----------
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Mondrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "TeX-music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Andre Van Ryckeghem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 12:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [TeX-music] Postscript slur poll
>
>
>
>>Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote:
>>
>>>I do not use them for the moment because:
>>>
>>>The small slurs in ps are much smaller (shorter) than the old slurs;
>>>The continuation slur over a line ends much higher than the old ones at
>>>
> the
>
>>>end of the first line and is to small at the continuation line.
>>>
>>>This i must confess: the slurs with a large vertical distance are much
>>>better
>>>
>>>Perhaps if the breaking of the slurs at the end of a line could be
>>>
> changed,
>
>>>then i will use them, but of course i do not know how to do it (finding
>>>oddities is much easier than patching them)
>>>
>>>
>>The height of postscript *slurs* is configurable as indicated by the
>>quote from a private email from Stanislav Kneifl:
>>
>>
>>>And one tip - do not redefine \tslur, use smaller value for the defult
>>>\def\psslurhgt{1} instead (fractions allowed).
>>>
>>>
>>Slurs are for phrasing while *ties* are for tiing equally pitched notes
>>for example across bar- and line breaks. If you use the recently added
>>PMX (v. 2.355) token 't' together with Ap then you'll get postscript
>>ties that do not have continuation problems.
>>
>>Bye
>>--
>>Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
>>Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
>>Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
>>Phone: +45 89 49 53 01 - http://www.scandiatransplant.org
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