A WIMA contributor has encountered a M-Tx limitation preventing him making use of the PMX token ']['. This token is used for sub grouping of user defined beaming groups. I've been investigating the mtx pascal sources and realized, that M-Tx does NOT support that feature: during parsing all mtx words stating with ']' are seen as end beam tokens. Fair enough.
However, I've taken this problem as an occasion to add a new experimental _and_ generic M-Tx feature: prefixing mtx words for later processing at the PMX stage. Since no mtx words _start_ with an underscore character (see GetNextMusWord in mtxline.pas) i've added a new item "pmxprefix" to the type array "music_word" and a corresponding item '_' to the string array "name". Now, when procedure "GetNextMusWord" encounters a word prefixed with '_' the only action taken is to strip the prefix off this word and write the word to the PMX output file. Later, when it comes to PMX processing a word like '][' can be duely handled. Of course this new feature is somehow 'dangerous'. The typesetter must really know what she does. But I think we may have got a way of overcoming at least some M-Tx limitations compared to the set of PMX facilities. Before I ask Don to officially release the new M-Tx version 0.60c with this feature added I'd like to have M-Tx users among you try M-Tx out. Do you think I've overlooked some potential syntax conflicts with the new feature? My own testing case has been this M-Tx code Style: Solo Meter: m2/2/0/6 g1 g g g g4 g2 | [ g1 g g g _][ g g g g ] g4 g | Pascal source code and binaries are available as linux: http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/mtx/mtxP060c.zip win32: http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/mtx/mtxP060c-win32.zip Mac OSX: http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/mtx/mtxP060c-OSX.zip Greetings -- Christian Mondrup, Sheet Music Editor WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive http://icking-music-archive.org/ _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
