Cornelius-- I can reproduce this error. As you have correctly inferred, this error message comes from MusiXTeX, not PMX. (Daniel barely acknowledged the existence of PMX, let alone help write error messages for it). Specifically, the ONLY thing that changes in the TeX file when you change fracindent is \parindent. It's possible that there is more hardspace being requested than is available, even though \parindent is still much smaller than \hsize. I'm posting this reply to the list in case any of the TeXperts on the list cares to look further into it. As to whether to mention it in any documentation, I certainly don't plan to but if you want to it's your choice. Obviously I can't say "no one would ever try such a big fracindent," because you did try it, if only as an experiment. But I can guarantee it's not going to come up very often at all, so the question is whether it's worth the space.
--Don >-----Original Message----- >From: Cornelius C. Noack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:43 AM >To: Don Simons >Subject: [TeX-Music] Too long name of instrument (fwd) > >When checking this, I found that when fracindent is greater than >about 0.5 (I didn't check whether this is a hard limit or >context-dependent), PMX goes through pass 1 without complaint, but >then musixTeX complains that >" This shouldn't happen! Too less bars or \mulooseness too large? " > >The English shows that this error message is original >Daniel Taupin, certainly not Don Simons. > >Is this a known bug/design feature/undocumented/missing PMX >errorexit/a fact of life ?? > It's obvious, of course, that fracindent must be less than 1.0 , >but if it's really less than (or around) 0.5, a remark in my >tutorial (which is again due to be updated to the latest PMX >version) would certainly be in place. > >Please give me directions (no rush!). > >Happy Xmas, by the way! > >ccn. >-- >................................................................. > > Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: > Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 > Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2422 > Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869 > D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 > Fax: 346 7872 > E-mail: noack at itp.uni-bremen.de or ccnoack at mailaps.org > WWW-page: www.itp.uni-bremen.de/~noack >................................................................. > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:24:53 +0100 >From: Jill-Jênn VIE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Werner Icking Music Archive > <[email protected]> >To: Werner Icking Music Archive > <[email protected]> >Subject: [TeX-Music] Too long name of instrument > >Hello, > >How to enlarge the space before the first staff, to put the name: >"Viola & Violin"? I thought of X but it only moves the notes. > >Thanks in advance, > >-- >Jill-Jênn > > >_______________________________________________ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex- >music _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
