Your file sizes are a surprise for me - my slurs are just a PS instructions - no bitmaps, no embedded Type1 fonts, just a header file and then function calls. Should be the smallest of all alternatives. Could you send me your PDF files?
The beam slurs are still a to-do: The original version for OpusTeX (which I prefer to use) worked fine, but I have to port it to MusiXTeX.
Stanislav.
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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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