?? Unless I'm missing something, I can't see anything unexpected, nor why you would expect both to be the same. In Ex 1 the tie on the e curves down by default and the one on c curves up as you coded. Down-ties start below center and go down from there, and vice versa, and you haven't tweaked any vertical positions. In the second example the curve directions (and default starting heights along with them) are reversed, consistent your tweaks,
--Don >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Terrence Enger >Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 5:18 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Tex-music] adjusting the starting position of a tie > >Greetings, > >I am somewhat confused, and I wonder whether I am misunderstanding something or >whether I have found a bug. > >In the appended pmx source and attached resulting pdf, the second way of >coding the >two chords gives the result I expected (well, I exaggerate the offset of the >tie from the C >just to make it obvious), but I expected the first way to give the same >result. Hunh? (I >trust that you are really impressed by my eloquence <grin />.) > >For the terminally curious, I attach an image of the part of the manuscript >which led me >into this situation. > >Thank you for your help, >Terry. > > >======================== source code ======================== % ---------- >--------------------------------------- >% >% looking at adjusting the starting point of a tie % % >------------------------------------------------ >- >% >% nstaves,noinst,mtrnuml,mtrdenl,mtrnump,mtrdenp,xmtrnum0,isig, > 1 1 2 4 0 0 0 -3 >% >% npages,nsyst,musicsize,fracindent > 0 1 20 0.0 > >t >./ >Abep >% use postscript type K slurs, ties, and hairpins Ap > >% === m. 040, first way > (3u b44u {4 ze- {5u+0+3 zc (6 zb an+u )3 ze }4 zc }5 zan )6 / > >% === m. 040, second way > (3u b44u {4u ze- {5d+0+3 zc (6 zb an+u )3 ze }4 zc }5 zan )6 / > ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
