I have been using PMX for seven years, but confess to still basically being in the dark about the difference between font-based s and t slurs. So I did some systematic experiments.
Here is everything the PMX Reference Manual has to say on the topic. "With font-based slurs, t is equivalent to s but with several minor differences to be explained later. ... ID codes cannot be used with font-based t slurs. ... For font-based slurs, the unique aspect of t slurs is that if one starts or ends on the same note as an s slur, the former will be moved away from the notehead to avoid a collision. This only works if neither slur has an ID code. This feature is only retained for backward compatibility. ... To specify a font-based tie in PMX, use a slur command and include the option t in it, somewhere after the initial ( , ) , s or t." In practice, some not-so-minor differences are encountered. The first of these flatly contradicts the User's Manual. c44 d e f g a b g c2 tt c tt ERROR in line 17, bar 3 Cannot use "t" as an option on a tie c44 d e f g a b g c2 t-1 c t-1 ERROR in line 17, bar 3 "+|-" for slur height only allowed in "s"-slurs Thus, t is indeed a poor brother of s, its only virtue being that in one very special case its use saves one some manual adjustment. I suspect the original reason for the "t" slur was only because, before labelled slurs, one needed two different slur symbols in the slur-over-a-tie situation. Given that the use of labelled slurs now allows enormous flexibility, it seems that the t slur is retained in PMX for the sake of backward compatibility only. New scores need not use it at all. Am I wrong in saying this? Dirk _______________________________________________ Tex-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
