In Christian's example, various factors conspire to make PMX's spacing look bad: 1) up-stemmed grace with flag followed by down-stemmed main note; (2) grace is two notes BELOW main note, causing flag to be at around the SAME height as the main note; (3) slash increases the visual width of the grace toward the right even beyond the flag, (4) the non-postscript slur extends too far to the left, due to a recent mod I made with only postscript slurs in mind, where such an extension to the left is needed to keep the slur from virtually disappearing. I could program PMX to check for a confluence of the first 3 conditions and automagically insert extra space if needed. Perhaps a better alternative would be to invent an option for the X command to make it put the space right before the main note. Comments?
--Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Cornelius C. Noack > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:55 AM > To: Typesetting music with TeX > Subject: Re: [TeX-music] M-Tx/PMX: Tweaking distance between grace note > and main note > > > Olivier always comes up with the most ingenious ideas ... > But it is indeed a dirty trick, and it's not straight PMX . > > So let me modify Christian's original question (how to do this > properly within PMX): why does PMX do something that wierd-looking > in the first place? Don: would it be easy to find what's the reason, > and fix it? > > ccn > -- > > >On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Olivier Vogel wrote: > > > >> Dear Christian > >> > >> I propose this very dirty trick: > >> > >> Gsxe [ \let\oldbigna\bigna\def\bigna#1{\relax}\ g1n > \let\bigna\oldbigna\ > >> r3+4 f a1 r3+4 g ] [ f1 r3+3 a g1 r3+3 e ] | > >> > >> Olivier > >> > > > >On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Christian Mondrup wrote: > > > >> Christof Biebricher wrote: > >>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Christian Mondrup wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> main note not only the main note is offset but also the preceding > >>>> grace > >>>> note. Can I do what I want with 'plain PMX' ? > >>> > >>> Part of the problem comes from the opposite direction of the > >>> stems. > >>> Gsxle looks acceptable to me. > >> > >> Thanks for the hint on stem direction which - somehow - solves the > >> problem. However, according to mainly agreed upon typesetting > >> standards grace note groups are most often drawn with stems up > >> 'regardless of their position on the staff, although publishers are > >> by no means consistent in this practice' (Gardner Read, Music > >> Noation, 2nd ed.) > >> > >>> Christof > >>> > ................................................................. > > Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: > Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 > Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2422 > Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869 > D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 > Fax: 346 7872 > E-mail: noack at itp.uni-bremen.de or ccnoack at mailaps.org > WWW-page: www.itp.uni-bremen.de/~noack > ................................................................. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
