Don:
your 3rd point, in particular, shows that in such situations one would
usually want to check the effect of the correction (and tweak it, as
need be); for that, I think an option to the X command is definitely
the better solution, for 2 reasons:
(i) it's more flexible in usage,
(ii) it's effect is more transparent to the user.
So my vote (on this Nov.2, 2004) is for the X option.
ccn.
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Don Simons wrote:
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
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Subject: Re: [TeX-music] M-Tx/PMX: Tweaking distance between grace note
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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
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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
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