PMX does not allow the last note of an xtuplet to be a rest.
This has been discussed here before, and Don Simons explained that
the PMX logic for the beam in an xtuplet is sufficiently complex
to make a rest as the last note extremely difficult if not outright
impossible.
Now this - very plausible - argument holds for beamed xtuplets, but
(as far as I can see) not for unbeamed xtuplets. In fact, I just
tried an example: writing a full triplet as
`a4ax3 zbf zc a zbn zdf e' ,
I ran PMX and then repaced - by hand - the `\cu e' in the resulting
.tex file by `\ds' , reran TeX and musicflx; and everything went
fine and gave the desired triplet.
So I wonder, Don, whether allowing this - restricted, OK! - use of an
ending rest in PMX would be a big hassle. If not, consider this
letter a user request. If, on the other hand, it remains worrisome,
just forget it.
ccn.
PS: I have noticed that my tutorial
(http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmxccn.pdf)
contains an example for how to explicitly prescribe an unbeamed
xtuplet (in Fig. B 12), but doesn't explain that in the text.
This will be fixed in the upcoming (minor) update of
the tutorial (now version 2.5).
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