On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>
> This change invalidates a sentence in the present M-Tx manual suggesting
> that it is a good idea to code { ( ... ) ... } rather than
> ( { ... } ... )
>
> If I receive no violent objections to this suggestion, I shall make it
> "official" (since no one else has yet volunteered to take over the
> maintenance of M-Tx).
Dear Dirk,
It is certainly a step into the right direction and, of course, I have no
objection. However, I still have another problem with ties in M-Tx.
In the meantime, ( ) is a valid command
in PMX, too. Quite often, arguments are required to label or to
adjust ties and slurs. These arguments are not permitted in M-Tx requiring
the use of s and t or editing on the PMX level.
This was discussed already last December. I wrote:
...
> conflict with the feature of invisible
> slurs {~ }~, which I appreciate and use very often.
> Christian's example illustrates the problem that are caused by the fact
> that the slur signs have multiple interpretations.
> In vocal music, a slur indicates which notes belong to a syllable.
> One can nest ties within, but they cannot cross the vocal slur.
> In instrumental music, the same applies to phrasing slurs, but
> in accords the nesting of inner ( ) exceeds 1.
> There are two possible remedies:
> 1) Only { } is parsed, ( ) is passed along to PMX.
> 2) Only the outmost ( ) or { } is parsed, the ones within are passed to PMX.
The most frequent conflict are chords with several
ties. I have not seen a way around with a C: line; as far as I know it
does not provide for tied together chords. However, this is a quite
frequent case: often only one or tow notes change in a chord, the other
must be tied. PMX allows for it by labelling the ( with a symbol. This
gives an error in M-Tx.
Since this applies to ties, you could combine it with your above solution.
If you see a solution that does not require a complete recoding of a large
part of the program, I would be quite happy.
Regards, Christof
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