Here's an example of how to construct the "shake" using psline. I've shown
you how to invoke it directly and also one way to get pmx to post it with
"os":
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1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0
1 1 20 0
t
.\
\\makeatletter\
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@th.7pt\
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\\special{ps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] begin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) DLN end}}\
\\makeatother\
\\def\eshake#1{\zcharnote{#1}{\kern2pt\lower.8\internote\hbox{\psline{8pt}{6
pt}}\
\\kern-2pt\raise0\internote\hbox{\psline{8pt}{6pt}}}}\
\\let\mtr\eshake\
Ap
c45 \eshake{10}\ g c g os /
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The fore fall, back fall, and "plain note and shake" can be built up
similarly. To do the "shake turned" you'll need a semicircle and I don't
know how to do that in general. There is a font circlew1 that has a
semicircle in it, but I don't have a postscript version of the font and have
no control over the thickness of the line. Maybe someone else can tell us
how to make TeX draw a circle using postscript commands analogous to psline.
In any event, you'll have to create a postscript file before you can see the
constructions that use psline, and if you don't use Ap it doesn't work (I
can't remember exactly why).
--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hermann
> Hinsch
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:06 PM
> To: Typesetting music with TeX
> Subject: Re: [TeX-music] Graces for English Virginal-Music
>
>
> 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-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [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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