I've just uploaded a bugfix beta version 2.614 of PMX to http://www.icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmx2614.zip
This fixes a bug discovered by Terry Enger. It was quite a remarkable catch, and reminded me of the PMX bugs that Werner was so adept at finding. It depended on having all the following conditions: A (1) rest that was (2) lowered and (3) dotted, followed by (4) a single note, followed by (5) two beamed notes, with (6) all of the above occurring in the same notes group, i.e., without any change in horizontal spacing increment \noteskip! I still don't understand precisely what was happening, but it was caused by PMX putting the rest and dot together in an hbox, when the rest itself was already automatically in an hbox. The basic error would be seen in the first bar of the following file, which also shows how the revised algorithm tweaks dot heights depending on whether the dot would hit a staff line. I've also included a new pmx.tex, which only differs from the previous one in that I've commented out some definitions of dotted rests that are no longer needed. But this means if you replace your working version of pmx.tex with the new one, then you won't be able to activate the error by processing the file as normal; you'd have to make the prior pmx.tex the active one. Test PMX file for raised, dotted rests: ====================================+ 1 1 2 4 2 4 0 -3 1 3 20 .1 Cello b ./ r1-4d gd [ dd ed f8 ] / m10/4/10/4 r2 r2-2 r2+2 r2-8 r2+8 / m5454 r4 r4-2 r4+2 r4-8 r4+8 / m6262 rd4-2 rd4-3 rd4-8 rd4-9 rd4+2 rd4+3 rd4+8 rd4+9 / m7272 rdd4-2 rdd4-3 rdd4-8 rdd4-9 rdd4+2 rdd4+3 rdd4+8 rdd4+9 / m3232 rd8-2 rd8-3 rd8-8 rd8-9 rd8+2 rd8+3 rd8+8 rd8+9 / m3434 rd1-2 rd1-3 rd1-8 rd1-9 rd1+2 rd1+3 rd1+8 rd1+9 / m3838 rd3-2 rd3-3 rd3-8 rd3-9 rd3+2 rd3+3 rd3+8 rd3+9 / ====================================== --Don Simons ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
