On Mon, 9 May 2005, Alexander Beck-Ratzka wrote:
Hello list,
I am a newby using MusiXTeX and PMX, and I've already some problems which I
don't understand. Like all the newbys I've done a little test first, and
the result was quite fine declaring a printing size of 10pt. After
increasing it to 20pt, I got thick fat bars at the right end of a line.
Attachments for the different pmx and dvi-files are appended to this email.
My first question: what is wrong in my pmx-file? My second question
concerns another problem. I see only larger notes if I use a printing size
of 20pt. I don't see larger notes (then for 10pt) using 16pt, 12pt, 48pt.
What might be the reason for this strange behaviour?
Alexander
(See attached file: pachelbel-20pt.pmx)(See attached file:
pachelbel-20pt.dvi)(See attached file: pachelbel-10pt.pmx)(See attached
file: pachelbel-10pt.dvi)
(a) there were no attached files in the mail I got. Did you
forget? Or else your mail system refuses to send attachments
that it believes not to be plain text --- some mailers do
that, for virus prevention reasons,
(b) the answer to your problem is nevertheless simple:
musixTeX, and thus also PMX uses its own fonts for the
creation of musical scores, and therefore you can use only
the 2 (musical) font sizes that are presently available,
which are called 16 and 20 -- basta! (the exact answer is
a little more complicated: if you look at the font names
loaded into you TeX installation by musixTeX, you will see
some more fonts. But consider that you also need fonts for
grace notes etc, so just be content with the above).
Perhaps some day one of our musixTeX specialists will come
up with a more flexible size handling system; but I doubt
it: it would be a sizable programming project, and I haven't
heard anyone complain loudly about this lack of
flexibility. Please remember also that its wonderful enough
that there are still people around caring for musixTeX. Read
the note in the Icking archive about what happened to Daniel
Taupin, the author of musixTeX, and join all of us in
remembering him.
ccn.
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