It's parallel in more ways than you think, since I play harpsichord, another
plucked string instrument :-) I assure you that if a harpsichordist ever
saw this notation, he wouldn't be sure what it meant, but he would be sure
it didn't mean a tremolo.
Here's a hack that might get closer to what you want. It replaces the
definitions for the tenuto marks. So whenever you enter "o_" in the PMX
file, you'll get the slash. Of course now you can't get a tenuto mark if you
want it. If you do want tenuto marks to be available, then let me know and
I'll give you some more options.
Some tweaking of the height may still be needed but you can do that in the
usual PMX way. See the last note in the sample file.
In case you're wondering why I replaced "o_" instead of "os" (an
undocumented PMX ornament with corresponding TeX command \mtr), the reason
is that for all ordinary ornaments (including "os") PMX adjusts the height
to make the ornament go just above (or below) the higher (or lower) of the
stem end, beam, and top staff line. But o_ and o. are not treated that way.
In case you're wondering why I don't just program a new ornament in PMX, the
reason is that I've used up the available "slots" in certain variables, and
adding just one more ornament type would take some major reprogramming.
--Don Simons
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1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0
1 1 20 0
t
.\
%
% Redefine \lst, \ust to give a lower and upper slash. Get these with o_ .
%
\\def\lst#1{\zcharnote{#1}{\lower2\internote\hbox{\loffset{.5}{\ibu009}\roff
set{.5}{\tbu0}}}}\
\\def\ust#1{\zcharnote{#1}{\lower12\internote\hbox{\loffset{1.5}{\ibu009}\lo
ffset{.5}{\tbu0}}}}\
g43 o_ a o_ b o_ c o_ |
d o_ e o_ f o_ g o_ |
a o_ b o_ c o_ d o_ |
e o_ f o_ g o_ a o_ |
b o_ c o_ d o_ d o_-2 /
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Fenn
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:34 AM
To: Werner Icking Music Archive
Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Tremolo
> \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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