On Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 8:57:26 PM, you wrote:
> to your dash problem: try to locate in the the psslurs.pro the following
> line:
> { [internote 8 mul AR internote 5 mul AR] 0 setdash } if
> the figures 8 and 5 designate the width of the segment and gap
> respectively (if I remember it well). You can do some experiments (it's
> sufficient to do only the dvips pass, no need to run TeX) and let me
> know if you find out some more suitable values for the next release of
> musixps.
Dear Stanislav,
You remembered perfectly, and changing the values as follows:
{ [internote 3 mul AR internote 2 mul AR] 0 setdash }
produces a dash-to-space ratio very similar to that of the original
bitmapped slurs. The result is extremely legible in all situations
where the previous values were unsatisfactory.
> P.S.: I was never concerned about the compatibility with the bitmapped
> slurs, I just tried to make the best-looking slurs for my own needs.
Well, in practice it looks as though your slurs are mostly compatible
with the old macros anyway! If it weren't for the beam slurs, my test
runs suggest that one would be able to convert existing scores simply
by adding "\input musixps" to the file header.
The size of the resultant PDF does remain a bit of a drawback, though:
Old slurs and pdftex: 278KB
Old slurs and dvipdfm: 322KB
Old slurs and dvips/GSView: 485KB
Kneifl slurs and dvips/GSView: 541KB
I wonder what would happen to the file size with your slurs if they
worked with pdftex. If the examples using the old slurs are any
indication, the kilobyte count would probably shrink quite
dramatically.
Eva
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