Arjen Bax wrote > Michael Brinkmann wrote > > However, if I use "pdftex" together with pmx instead of plain tex, the > > slur in the first line of code is not displayed in the PDF-viewer. > > Not only in pdftex, but also with dvipdfm the slur does not show up in > Acrobat 5.x. > > > May this be a bug in the ps-fonts of musixtex? > > No, it is a bug in Acrobat Reader 5.x: it does not display slurs that > are horizontal, i.e., that start and end on the same note height. I > suspect that this is caused by an "optimization" in Acrobat Reader: > "characters with height 0 don't display". The slurs show up correctly > when viewed with Ghostscript and in Acrobat Reader 4.x, which can be > obtained from the Icking Archive, as indicated on the "Introduction" > page.
There is a possible explanation (and solution) here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01512.html It has to do with "Greeking," where Acrobat Reader replaces font characters with something else--in this case blanks--if the original characters are smaller than a preset limit. As to why using PMX instead of plain TeX should affect this, I'm skeptical. All PMX does is produce plain TeX. Something else must have changed...perhaps whether you used font-based slurs rather than Type K or M postscript slurs. I don't think the latter would be affected by the Greeking limit. --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
