Dear MusiXTeX community! I'm using MusiXTeX together with LaTeX for my doctoral thesis in musicology for about a year now and consider it the absolute best tool available for doing transcriptions of 17th century treatises with a lot of examples in staff notation.
While working with MusiXTeX, a few questions arose I couldn't answer with the documentation. I thought I collect them to present them to all of you, maybe someone has an idea how to solve them. I would be very grateful for any comments or help. 1. How is it possible to write white notation (as commonly used for example in french baroque music), where all note heads are white? If there would be a possibility to write notes with invisible note heads (maybe in a similar way as the note heads in musixper), one could combine them with the non-spacing white note heads (\znh). 2. Is there anyone who feels the need for having a black whole note head instead of the slightly smaller quarter note head (\nq) to write e.g. modern notation gregorian chant or music theory analysis? 3. Is it possible to have a maxima with a stem up? 4. Why is the breve not included in the Shifted non-spacing note heads? It could be very useful when writing ligatures in 17th and 18th century gregorian chant. The result can be obtained with the offset-commands, but it takes more time and effort. I'm aware there could be a problem with the distances, since the breve note head is wider than others. I'm looking forward to your response, thanks! best wishes, Christoph ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
