Thank you, Don and Johan, for your suggestions.
I am late in replying because I haven't had much time to tinker with all
these new thoughts.
Don had suggested:
> %2D"\bigfont\kern-27pt Movement II"+53
> %2D"\BIgfont\kern40pt Tacet"+40
> d e f g a b c /
Don, using a PMX D (dynamics) command and just moving it up vertically is
absolutely brilliant! And now I've also learned that I can change the font
inside the quotation marks, too. I went to download the new PMX beta, BTW,
but noticed that the new pmx.tex file is missing in the zip file for 2.416.
Johan's suggestion:
> to write each movement as a separate file. I include the PMX generated TeX
> files from a central TeX file (one file for the score and one for each
> part), so I have just used a \centerline{} instead of \input in this TeX
> part file. instead of \input.
Johan, I had seen Cornelius Noack's example of how to make a concatenated
tex file in his expanded PMX manual, but I understand so little of MusiXTex
that I didn't grasp the implications. I hadn't realized that I could also
enter text lines there in between the lines \input-ing tex files. Duh. I am
slow sometimes, but I can be taught. This opens up all sorts of interesting
possibilities, and means that I could actually add a whole descriptive
paragraph between movements, like maybe, "Here is where Louis comes in and
dances a minuet with the nymphs".
I, too, had noticed that the PMX-generated midi file is all jumbled up when
you change the number of instruments midstream, but thought it was just
something I was doing wrong. I use the midi files quite a bit as an aid for
proof-reading, so that would be an argument for using a separate file for
each movement.
I continue to be amazed at the possibilities of PMX/MusiXTeX. Thank you
again.
So much music, so little time!
Diane
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