Don Simons wrote:
Christian wins the Sherlock Holmes award for detective work on this case.It wouldn't be that much work for me to put in a user-selected switch to suppress the automatic height adjustment (I'd only have to bypass the "AHA" block.) Is it worth the trouble (of generating a whole new PMX version)? What would be more difficult is making the bar numbering a lot more flexible. But all along I figured if people didn't like the default they could fix it with inline TeX. However, if you only want to alter the position of the bar number on a one-time basis, there is an undocumented macro in pmx.tex called \bnrs ("bar number raise & shift"). It has two arguments, the amount to raise it (in \internote) and the amount to shift if horizontally (in notehead widths). Example of use: ============================== 1 1 4 4 4 4 0 0 1 4 20 0 t .\ w3i c86 c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c / cs86 c c c c c c c c c c c c c c \bnrs0{-2}\ c / cs86 c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c / cs86 c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c / =============================== This shifts the 3rd system's bar number to left. But the same issue applies as with the baseline behavior: some of the redefinitions I used here could confuse or get confused by other redefinitions that a user might try.
The problem with this solution is that the evocation of \bnrs only affects the current bar. If you apply it to bar 14 of the pmx source in question (*) it does fix the problem for bar 14. But in the subsequent bars the bar numbers are still displaced. Actually I believe that this behavior is an 'exotic feature' (bug?) in pmx. IMHO pmx should store the current settings for the bar number positioning before calculating the offset caused by a continuation slur. At the subsequent bar the original positioning settings should be restored from the saved values.
(*) an arrangement for string trio of the Kyrie movent from the B-Minor Mass by J.S.Bach
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