Don Simons wrote: > I can't right off hand think of any tricks that will work, but someone else > may. > > If you want to get into the code and recompile it, be my guest. The place to > start is to globally search and replace "nm=12" with "nm=14" (12 voices plus > two staves--I assume--for the B.C.). But I can virtually guarantee you that > that alone won't do the trick; you'll just have to follow the error > messages. > > Also, I'm not so sure that MusiXTeX will allow more than 12 instruments, > although it may allow more than 12 total voices if there are no more than 12 > instruments. >
In cases like this where the MusiXTeX software utilities are driven beyond their limits I would go for alternative engraving software. From the open source world one candidate is GNU Lilypond which is really powerful, the user interface is rather far from the 'flow' of music, at least in my experience. For a task like this one another open source utility could be PMW (http://www.quercite.com/pmw.html). Like Lilypond each staff is coded in its own section of the source file. But the coding syntax is simpler than that of Lilypond. Personally I'm using the non-free (though inexpensive) software MUP which, like M-Tx and PMX, keeps the engraving code of all staves together. For all 3 software packages mentioned above there is carefully prepared documentation available > --Don Simons > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tex-music- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hermann Hinsch >> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:28 AM >> To: Werner Icking Music Archive >> Subject: [TeX-Music] M-Tx and PMX-Limitation >> >> I want to typeset a psalm with 12 voices and b.c. using M-Tx. Although >> M-Tx >> allows 15 voices and staves PMX has the limit of 12 voices. >> >> Is there any possibility to overcome this limit? >> >> Hermann >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TeX-music mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music -- 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
