> \loffset{.5}{\us0}Thanks, that's what I needed to know.> Man, I’m amazed
> there’s so much interest in this obscure and> ambiguous notation. I hope all
> you guys who use it are including a note saying> what you want it to mean.I
> must be living in a parallel musical universe to Don. I'm trying to typeset
> some scores for Zupforchestra, that is to say, an orchestra of fretted
> instruments - mandolins, mandolas etc. In my world the notation (usually with
> two or three slashes) is very common and is used to indicate the rapid
> alternate up and down strokes of a plectrum to produce the illusion of a
> sustained note. On plectrum instruments this is known as tremolo. The effect
> is similar to a drum roll or flutter tonguing on wind instruments.I need to
> use this form of notation quite extensively in my scores but the \ls{n} and
> \us{n} macros are still quite cumbersome in that you have to set the position
> of the slash on each stem by hand. I had hoped that there would be a way to
> adapt them so that they worked more like the staccato ornament but I couldn't
> find any relevant code in pmx.tex to hack. I'm naive enough to think that it
> ought to be fairly easy to attach the slash to the note stem so that it
> automatically places the slash at the correct position each time.
Thanks for all your help.
Adam.
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