Well, the coding in \varline is still pretty inscrutable, but there's a comment in the version of it in tuplet.tex saying it builds up the line with 10-pt segments, evidently from a selected character in the font musixspx. So that explains why I can't get a line shorter than 10pt, and also means that without a completely different approach, I'd have to modify the macro to use a shrunken version of that font. But even if I could work that out (which I doubt), it would make the line proportionally thinner, which would be bad.
It sure seems like a typesetting system as fancy as TeX ought to provide a way to draw any straight line you want. --Don >-----Original Message----- >From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Simons >Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 7:50 PM >To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' >Subject: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines > >I'm trying to figure out how to draw an ARBITRARY diagonal line. There's a >macro \varline in musixtex.tex that is used for xtuplet brackets, but it >doesn't work as I would expect from the description: > >% varline #1=height[dimen] #2=length[dimen] #3=slope (1\eqiv 1.125degree) >% (comments and ideas from Ian Collier) (from -20 upto 20 ) >% This macro is used by some of the others which follow, >% using it directly it must be set in zero box > >Minor point: the 1st argument is a number, not a dimension. Here's a test >file, in which the 8 slanted lines should get progressively longer. THEY >DON'T. Can anyone figure out how to dumb this macro down so it simply draws >the advertised line, starting from the same point every time (like it seems >to be doing for the last 4 lines)? It would also be nice to be able to set >the thickness of the diagonal line, and to remove the restriction on slope. >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >============================= >1 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 >0 8 20 0 > >t >.\ >\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{2pt}5}}\ e44 g / >\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{4pt}5}}\ e44 g / >\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{6pt}5}}\ e44 g / >\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{8pt}5}}\ e44 g / >\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{10pt}5}}\ e44 g / >\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{12pt}5}}\ e44 g / >\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{14pt}5}}\ e44 g / >\zcharnote7{\hbox{\varline0{16pt}5}}\ e44 g / >=============================== > >--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 ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
