Since \ibu... initiates a _single_ beam, it's a little unclear exactly what your complaint is, but I think I can guess. \ibbu... generates double beams, and the second parameter sets the starting height of the beam. It is true that for a horizontal upper double beam, if you use the note name as the second parameter of the beam initiation macro, the top will come out higher than a corresponding single beam. If you want it lower, just use a 2nd parameter that's one note lower. Here's where I'm confused, because you seem to have tried that and seem to be claiming it had no effect. I don't understand that at all. Perhaps you should post a compilable tex excerpt that you have confirmed demonstrates your problem.
In PMX, there are two kinds of easy adjustments on the height of a beam. The most common simply raises or lowers the height by one \internote (half the space between staff lines). Unfortunately, either in PMX or raw musixtex, that in itself can't make tops of horizontal double beams line up exactly with tops of single beams, since the beams are not spaced an integral number of \internotes apart. But lowering the double beam by one internote makes it come out pretty close. And if you want it to come out _exactly_ lined up, there's a second way of changing beam heights in PMX that can do that. It's a little more complicated. Unfortunately, using PMX would be somewhat problematic for you because it doesn't easily handle single-line percussion parts. It could be made to do it with in-line TeX. If your problem is that you can get the heights to line up approximately but you want them to be exact, then please say so, and I'll explain how you can do that either in MusiXTeX or PMX. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TeX-music] double upper beam pitch too high? hi all, for a > couple of months iuse musixtex to write down some percussion notes. > (nearly) allnotes sit on the only staff line pitch i. and everything > works fineas long i use single notes like "\qu i", "\cu i > > > hi all, > for a couple of months i use musixtex to write down some percussion > notes. > (nearly) all notes sit on the only staff line pitch i. > and everything works fine as long i use single notes like "\qu i", > "\cu i" or "\ccu i". > also a simple beam like "\ibu0i0\qb0i\tbu0\qb0i" look good. > but quite often i need to write double (or even tripple) beams. so i > tried "\ibu0i0\qb0i\tbu0\qb0i". but unlike "\ccu i" the second beam > sits above the first. therefore my double beams look awfully tall. i > also tried "\ibu0h0\qb0i\tbu0\qb0i" and "\ibu0g0\qb0i\tbu0\qb0i" to > get to the same height as single notes, but neither works. using > pitch h the double beam is still too tall, pitch g is too small. > > can u please help me setting the same height for double beams as for > single notes!!! > > thanks and greets > marek > > _______________________________________________ > 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
