I put in the F option at Werner's request, because Bach used it somewhere and Werner wanted to reproduce Bach's rhythmic notation. I've never come across it in any other context. I respect Bach a great deal, but in fact the F notation is ambiguous and unnecessary. What rhythm is really intended, for example by a44x3F a ? Is the shorter note to be 1/2 or 1/3 the length of the longer one? PMX has unambiguous notations for both of those: a44x3D a and a84.a . I suppose the shorter note might be intended to be 1/5 the duration of the longer one, and PMX doesn't have a special notation for that, but that's pretty far-fetched.
Now, considering the archaic and ambiguous nature of the notation generated by the F option, I'm not convinved it's worth the programming effort to teach PMX to add the dot to additional chordal notes. If anyone believes otherwise and can explain what the notation really means, I'm willing to listen. By the way, in the somewhat related notation a44x3d a a , the dot on the first note is in fact inherited by any chordal notes. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andre > Van Ryckeghem > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 12:11 PM > To: Typesetting music with TeX > Subject: [TeX-music] pmx chords in xtuplet with F, dotted xtuplex > > > 1. In a xtuplet with F, only the main note of the chord has a dot. > > 2. In the following code, which output line is correct. The 2nd? > > Thanks for helping > Andre > > =========== > 1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 > > 1 2 16 0 > > t > ./ > w500 > f2Fx3n3 zad a / > m9898 > f4dDx3 za f a4dx3 a a a4d / > m4444 > f4dDx3 za f a4dx3 a a a4 / > f4Dx3 za f a4x3 a a a4 a / > % > L2 > m2424 > \pt2\ f2Fx3n3 zad a / > m9898 > \pt2\pt0\ f4dDx3 za \pt0\ f \pt2\ a4dx3 \pt2\ a \pt2\ a a4d / > m4444 > \pt2\pt0\ f4dDx3 za \pt0\ f \pt2\ a4dx3 \pt2\ a \pt2\ a a4 / > f4Dx3 za f a4x3 a a a4 a / > ================= > > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
