On Thursday 02 February 2006 10:54 am, Andreas Plank wrote: > Hello Rainer! > > that's great and works fine. > thanks > Andreas
Take a look at my "Ten Lessons" for fingering rasgeado with letters alone, and my Alegrias for tuplets. My problem with noteless stems has always been that the use of long arrows for direction makes a mess that's hard to read. Of course the Alegrias is so simple that I didn't even use the letters. Even if you hate it, you might like the Filipino triplet brackets, which IMO are far superior to the conventional for all purposes. If there were any evolution in notation going on, they would be standard by now. Of possible interest is a couple of sed scripts for quicker typing of html and latex, using a common source file for both. Nothing really new here, but it's for speed, not completeness. http://www.openguitar.com/quicktype.html The thing that prevents me from using PMX & Co. is the lack of support for fingering. I have found that fingering guitar music is done after everything else, and that it usually takes longer than typing the music. I understand that it is against the design philosophy of MusixTex to put fingering and possibly some other markup in a separate block, but I think that it would be a very good idea to find a way to put markup in a separate block for preprocessors to make the source *much* easier to maintain, and to make possible an immensely more terse syntax. 3, = put a 3 after and below the note head. '3 = put a 3 before and above the note head. ;a = put an 'a' directly before the note head. [,a 3,] = put an 'a' before and under and a 3 after and under a note head. Putting fingering directly after a note head is a very bad idea. Before the tyranny of the piano it simply was not done. Normally, a finger indication should be closest to the note to which it applies. Stacking up fingering the way it is usually done now is no improvement. Fingering used to be done in such a way that the eye could follow it easily. There was no preference to move fingering away from the staff lines. It is done very badly now because it is easy for the programmer, not the reader. I realize that I am overreaching in making suggestions about how to do something which you may have no intention whatever of doing ever, but I have seen really bad stuff arise from doing as others do. Certainly doing something about fingering is not premature. daveA -- Free download of technical exercises worth a lifetime of practice: "Dynamic Guitar Technique": http://www.openguitar.com/instruction.html email: "David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or use [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.openguitar.com/contact.html _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
