I am deeply sorry to ask questions all the time! Please excuse me. For a book, I should add examples that are much smaller than a page,
about 1/4. I tried to alter these settings in the MusiXTeX files:
\hoffset=-20mm \hsize=524pt \vsize300pt
and no \vfill at the end. No success. The white space after the example is still much more than what I need. I found an example of Werner Icking (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01054.html) but he pointed to an archive that is apparently vanished now.
The site in question is Paul Gabler's 'La Folia, a musical cathdral' mentioned as the first on the Icking page 'Other free sheet music archives', http://icking-music-archive.org/oth_mus_archives.html. This web site is dedicated to the memory of Werner Icking who provided many of the embedded music examples.
Ho could I 'cut off' all this white space after the example? That's because for some reasons I must incorporate pdf files into a larger file.
Here is an attempt of producing a postscript music example with a user defined size:
-------- % exa.mtx
Style: Solo Meter: C Bars/line: 4
%% w100m c4 d e f | g f e d | c0 --------
The Pmx width setting (w100m) efficiently affects the width of the staff
Afterwards you may use dvips to tweak the size of the note example. It takes some trial-and-error to get to a reasonable result.
dvips -T 10.5cm,2cm -O -0.75cm,-2.5cm -o exa.ps exa.dvi
The resulting postscript file can be distilled to pdf using ps2pdf
Another approach would be to generate an encapsulated postscript file (eps) from the dvi output
dvips -E -o exa.eps exa.dvi
Some text propcessing utilities (such as TeX and OpenOffice) let you include .eps files. En .eps file can be distilled to pdf with ps2pdf
ps2pdf -dUseCropBox exa.eps
I haven't been able, though, to test inclusion of pdf files.
Bye -- Christian Mondrup, Sheet Note Editor Werner Icking Music Archive http://icking-music-archive.org/ _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
