>|I had already responded to the original query with a PMX solution. Maybe
>|"significant re-coding" is in the eye of the re-coder:
>|
>|=======================================
>|1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0
>|1 1 20 0
>|
>|t
>|.\
>|c24 \loffset{1.5}{\lpar5}\loffset{1.5}{\rpar5}\ c+s<.4 /
>|=======================================
Thanks, Don. Unfortunately, I don't use PMX. If I extract what I recognize
as being musixtex
\loffset{1.5}{\lpar5}\loffset{1.5}{\rpar5}
I get good parentheses; to put the accidental in the proper place
between them I can use
\loffset{0.4}{\na5}
and add extra space before. It'll do.
Bob T.
>|> >|> The commands \cna, \cfl, \csh, etc. in musixtex produce parenthesized
>|> >|> *small* accidentals. [...]
>|> >|>
>|> >|> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \smallna}
>|> >|>
>|> >|> Where do the parentheses come from?
>|> >|
>|> >|It seems that this question has not yet been answered; so, just for
>|> >|the fun to see how MusiXTeX works ... :-)
>|> >|
>|> >|The following macros are involved in a \cna call, in the order given:
>|> >|
>|> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED] \smallna}
>|> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Na [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ur [EMAIL
>PROTECTED]
>|> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ [EMAIL
>PROTECTED]@xl }
>|> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@sa\kern\accshift}}
>|> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@vii=\maxdimen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>|> >| \else [EMAIL PROTECTED] \fi [EMAIL PROTECTED]@}
>|> >|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@iv}
>|> >|
>|> >|That is: \cna sets [EMAIL PROTECTED] to \maxdimen. This is used just as
>a switch
>|> >|that is later queried by [EMAIL PROTECTED]; if the switch is set,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] is called
>|> >|which in turn typesets character number [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the
>music symbol
>|> >|font. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been set to 5 by macro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>before, and the music
>|> >|character with that number happens to be just the pair of parentheses.
>|>
>|> Thanks. And now I see why it's so hard to produce "normalsized"
>|> cautionary accidentals: the parentheses used come in pairs in the
>|> musix fonts and are either too close together or too far apart for
>|> a normalsized accidental. I suppose the "separate" left and right
>|> parentheses in character positions 3 and 4 could be used but that would
>|> involve significant re-coding.
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