Don Simons wrote:
> Christof Biebricher wrote
>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Christian Mondrup wrote:
>>> Well, pmxab doesn't accept that with ties:
>>>
>>> ERROR in line 295, bar 16 "+|-" for slur height only allowed
>> in "s"-slurs
>>> v
>>> But it works excellently with slurs
>>>
>>> d45 c8 b a2 g4 b a a s s+0+2.5 Rr /
>>>
>> Dear Don:
>> this question reminds me on a problem I often had:
>> Organ and choir music often have organ points where one needs ties that
>> span many bars. I realize that with alternating between st and t. However,
>> as Christian says, t does not allow for horizontal and vertical correction
>> which is often required in polyphonal music. The change between s and st
>> works but is ugly because ties and slurs alternate. I was doing it by
>> post-editing the tex file. Is there are more elegant way?
>
> Christof, the following source works OK for me:
>
> ===================================================
> 1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0
> 0 4 20 0
>
> t
> .\
> Abepl
> g04 t | g t t+.5+.5 | g t+.5-.5 t | g t t /
> g04 t t | g t t+1+1 | g t+1-1 t | g t t /
> g04 t t | g t t | g t t+2+2 | g t+2-2 t /
> g04 t t | g t t | g t t | g t t /
> g04 t t | g t t | g t t | g t /
> ===================================================
I get the ties I need (with or without postscript ties) by this M-Tx coding
Meter: C
%% Ap
g2 g | { g0 | g0 }{ | g0 }{ | g0 }
>
> Maybe I don't understand the problem. It appears to me that the limit on tie
> adjustments occurs only with bitmapped slurs/ties, but not postscript. Are
> you using bitmapped slurs/ties? If so, why not use postscript?
>
> If you, Christian,
see my prior posting on this topic
> or others have problems with the appearance of postscript
> slurs/ties, perhaps we can change the way they look. I vaguely recall
> sometime in the deep dark past making some such adjustments. I'd have to do
> some digging to see if they're embedded in my system.
>
> --Don
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