Interesting! I never thought of G8 as between alto and tenor clefs, but indeed it is.
The consensus seems to be that when I enable C8 in PMX, pitches should be entered as they will sound. That'll be more work (due to MusiXTeX's inconsistent treatment of the clef). But maybe I can take advantage of some of PMX's partwise-transposition machinery, which I put in a while back. So inside PMX, for any voice with C8 assigned, I would treat it like treble clef, except (1) replace the clef symbol with treblelowoct, and (2) transpose all input pitches up an octave before typesetting. I guess I'll also have to ensure that if MIDI is requested it DOESN'T get transposed up an octave. This could take a while. --Don Simons >-----Original Message----- >From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Francisco Callejo >Giménez >Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 8:24 AM >To: Werner Icking Music Archive >Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Low octave treble clef in PMX > >The problem is a "conflict" between two ideas: > >- For MusixTex, the "G8" clef is a variant of the treble clef, a symbol >- For singers (and for musicians), that clef is a real clef, with >pitches between alto (C3) and tenor (C4) clefs. > >For a typesetting system like PMX (and for MusixTex, also), it must be a >real clef, thus one can enter the notes in its real octave, and the >system typeset them correctly. But as PMX depends on MusixTeX, there is >a double task: read the source file in the correct pitch, thinking the >G8 clef is a real clef, but typeset the staff as if it would be an >octave higher. > >Francisco. > >------------------------------- >[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
