Don Simons wrote: > 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.
Workarounds already posted... > It sure seems like a typesetting system as fancy as TeX ought to provide a > way to draw any straight line you want. But just for interest/completeness... TeX does provide a way - but sadly it's in the form of METAFONT! Arbitrary lines is one of the reasons for using PostScript specials (or MetaPost). The pure font slur and hairpin macros in MusiXTeX are terribly impressive precisely because they just about solve the unsolvable (that's in no way a slight on the postscript version, though!) :o) TeX is literally a system for manipulating lists of boxes (which is alluded to on the chapters on vertical and horizontal mode in the TeXbook). The only reason it can do horizontal and vertical lines natively is because those are boxes which happen to be filled in. David ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
