2015-01-27 23:26 GMT+02:00 Bob Tennent <[email protected]>: > But can you modify an existing source in whatever notation > you do like so that > > + one of the instruments is transposed Yes, PMX can do that. > + one of the instruments is set in tiny notes Ditto.
> + two of four instruments are discarded M-Tx can do that. > + the order of some of the instruments is inverted M-Tx can do that, provided that the source uses only labelled lines. I wrote M-Tx 0.10 almost 20 years ago in Turbo Pascal. If I did it now, the input language would be nearly identical, but the implementation would have been in Lua, requiring just one \usepackage in LuaLaTeX. The same argument, but fortissimo molto con brio, applies to much of MusiXTeX. It's totally amazing what Daniel, and Werner, and Rainer, and you, and others, could do with the early-1980's 7-bit typesetting language called TeX. But it's over 30 years later, and TeX nowadays has a built-in scripting language. Rather than continuing to demonstrate what marvellous airs can be played by a virtuoso on a violin with only a G-string, the resources of the modern synthesizer called LuaTeX, which even tone-deaf teenagers can play with one finger, should be exploited. You've already given us a pure LuaTeX implementation of musixflx, eliminating the manual three-pass system. There's a lot more possible in that direction. ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
