If you were really desperate, you could use psline to draw the volta.
Here's an example of PMX code showing how I used it in defining \shl#1,
which puts a shallow slanted line above the notehead at level #1 . You have
to be using Type K postscript slurs and 20 pt type for this to work.
\\makeatletter\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@th.8pt\
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\\special{ps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) DLN end}}\
\\makeatother\
\\def\shl#1{\zcharnote{#1}{\kern-2pt\raise.4\internote\hbox{\psline{11pt}{3p
t}}}}\
--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rainer
> Dunker
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 4:04 PM
> To: Typesetting music with TeX
> Subject: Re: [TeX-music] volta
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:43:25AM +0200, Simon Dreher wrote:
> > > In a piece with some orchestral voices and choir (typeset below), I'd
> > > like to have the volta-signs not only above the top staff, but also
> > > above the choir. Is there any possibility to get the result?
>
> With MusiXTeX as-is, AFAIK no. But I remember I've had that wish
> myself at
> some point. A thorough solution would be to extend MusiXTeX by kind of a
> "parameterized" volta typesetting; you could then choose at which staves
> volta brackets shall appear with a command like \printvolta{2,5}.
>
> I'll sit down and try to work out such a solution, provided that it is
> considered useful. Perhaps it could even be incorporated into
> musixtex.tex
> at some time.
>
>
> > By the way, why is the square choir bracket so high? I think the upper
> > end shoult be a little bit lower, at the upper edge of the soprano
> > staff. Can I adjust it?
>
> That was challenging. It seems to be due to a musixtex.tex bug that
> becomes effective when the uppermost staff of a system has a different
> music size than the uppermost staff of a bracketed group, which is the
> case in your score.
>
> For me, using the attached musixtex.tex "repair" named bracket.tex solves
> the problem. I've included it with "%%\\input bracket\" before the line
> "%%\\let\endpiecesav\Endpiece\". (The repair refers to MusiXTeX T.112; I
> don't know which other versions it also works together with.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rainer
>
_______________________________________________
TeX-music mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
