Am Montag, 3. April 2006 20:48 schrieb Don Simons: > There are many ways to skin a cat. In this case I can think of at least 3, > depending on whether the symbol can be
Don,
I sent unfortunately my reply to your private address. In order to make my
reply public I repeat what I have sent.
Hi Don,
thanks for your reply. I am at the time engaged typesetting "A Choice
Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinnet" by Henry Purcell from a
facsimile of the edition of 1696. An explanation of the rules for the graces
is given which I will upload to the WIMA together with the scores.
You will find a pdf file with the graces as I would like them. In the
explantion there are some more symbols as for a beat for which pmx's ot can
be used, a turn for which \turn is suitable, a slur is indicated by a
diagonal line, and a battery by "(".
I will try to use modified "/" and "\" ($\backslash$) as fore fall and back
fall. Perhaps I can modify \mtr to get the lines thicker.
Of course you are quit right working with METAFONT is a hard job. Maybe that I
can get some help from my former collegues of the university.
> (1) drawn with diagonal lines,
> (2) assembled from characters in existing fonts, with or without the
> addition of diagonal lines, or
> (3) none of the above.
>
> It would take all day to fully explain all three options, so it would be
> useful if you could give more details (perhaps a pdf file with images).
>
> But I can say a few things here. If it's (3), then you're stuck with
> learning METAFONT to create a new font character and add it to an existing
> font or create a new one. I can't help you at all with METAFONT and I doubt
> if very many other people can either, because--at least from my attempts to
> unravel bits of it--it's even more inscrutable and counterintuitie than
> TeX.
>
> There's an example of at least part of how to do (2) buried in PMX itself,
> where I needed two parallel diagonal lines and found a font that had a
> slash character that looked OK, so I built up the symbol using two of
> those. It's defined as \mtr right near the top of pmx.tex. To get pmx to
> issue the command, use the PMX command os. If you simply redefined \mtr you
> could then use the command os in PMX to post your own ornament.
>
> To use (1) there are several options. If you use postscript, there's some
> way to get TeX to draw a diagonal line. There's also a TeX command defined
> somewhere to draw a diagonal line using lots of tiny dots. I can't remember
> the names or syntax of either command right now but could find them if I
> had to.
>
> --Don Simons
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hermann
> > Hinsch
> > Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 11:23 AM
> > To: 'Typesetting music with TeX'
> > Subject: [TeX-music] Graces for English Virginal-Music
> >
> >
> > Hallo all,
> >
> > the English virginalists use special signs for the graces. Does
> > anyone know
> > how to use them in PMX by taking inline TeX? How difficult would
> > it be, to
> > create such graces?
> >
> > Hermann
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