Hello everyone, Some two years ago, Werner Icking answered a question of mine on MuTeX about how to indicate barre chord fingering in MusixTeX and provided a hack (his own word) of the \Ioctfin* macros to create the horizontal line that's needed for the purpose. Some time later, other readers of this forum helped to adapt this hack to allow for a string number instead of the barre chord symbol before the line. (The resultant macros, plus usage examples, are in the attached file.)
The problem with these tricks is twofold: - You can only use them one at a time (at least, I've not been able to persuade a barre chord line and a string line to coexist in harmony) - Once you've input them into your source, you no longer have the option of indicating octaviation lines via the \Ioctfin macros. This is why I've hesitated to make my guitar fingering macros generally available up to now -- it seems somewhat unwise to let loose a MusixTeX add-on that torpedoes parts of MusixTeX's basic functionality. My question for the TeXperts is this: Is there any way around these limitations? With reference to the example extracts in the file, the ideal situation would be to be able to combine 1, 2, 3 AND 4 (or at least 1, 2 and either 3 OR 4), all in a single bar of music. If a solution to this issue can be found, MusixTeX would be almost 100% capable of handling the needs of classical guitar scores, and I'd finally be able to oblige Christian Mondrup and a couple of others who have called for my fingerings file -- with credit given to all contributors, of course -- to be made available on the Icking Archive's software pages. Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse, he sweats a little in her service." --Catherine Drinker Bowen Friends and Fiddlers (1935)
barre.tex
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