Helge, I'm afraid increasing the number of lines in PMX is simply not in the cards, at least not in the foreseeable future. As Cornelius has already mentioned, to increase the number of lines of music (voices) beyond 12 in PMX will require much more work than simply changing some dimensions. For such a microscopic number of cases (of which the present one is just about the only one that has come up in about 10 years) it's simply very hard to justify the effort.
The solution in the near term would be to use inline TeX. First, use PMX to set the voice that has the smaller time steps, so it will get the spacing right. The PMX-set voice may have to switch from one to the other, depending on which of the two has smallest time steps. And you will probably need to use PMX options to force the stems and beams to go in the directions you want. Once that is done, go back and put in the other voice with in-line TeX. Use only non-spacing commands, like \zqu and \zqb. Use numerical arguments for the pitch levels, not numbers (I hope you don't ever want to transpose this). If you would like to send a very stripped-down PMX input file containing only the problem staff, and just several bars of it, with both voices set using PMX, then I'll send back the same thing but with one of the two voices input with inline TeX as I've described, as an example. And yes, of course PMX is open source. The source code is included in every PMX distribution, major releases as well as bug-fix betas. But since its inception, only one person I can recall beside me (Dirk Laurie) has ever had the guts/patience/will/desire to modify it. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Helge > Kruse > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:31 PM > To: 'Typesetting music with TeX' > Subject: RE: [TeX-music] More than 12 lines of music at once > > > Cronelius, > > many thanks for reply even if it's a bit dampening. I promised to our > orchestra to write the notes in a week and I would like to continue this > since I convinced that the other software systems are not as good as > MusiXTeX/PMX. But now I am in a tight corner. > > I looked at the first sheet and I think the printability is ok, > up to twelve > staves should be possible. > > I searched the WIMA Tips and Tricks, but didn't found how to increase the > number of voices. The increase of voice number related mails concerned > always the three voices per system problem as far as I found. > > Since I neither have a FORTRAN compiler nor experience with that > language it > would be worthly to have the source code. C++ would be simpler. But I even > don't know if PMX is in open source. > > So I hope someone can give me a hint with a inline TeX trick. The most > convinient would be, Don can could change the limit. > > Best regards, > Helge > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
