> From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob > Tennent > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:23 PM > To: Bob Tennent > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] bar-centered rests > > >|If one inserts \let\adv@box\hbox before #1, >|then \centerpause, > \centerhpause, \centerPAuse, etc. are >|all correctly centered. Jean- > Pierre's definitions aren't >|necessary but won't affect the operation of a > revised >|\centerbar. All the multi-bar rests in Werner's rests.tex >|are > improved by this one change. > > Unfortunately, this solution has bad consequences if one tries to use > \centerbar to center other things, such as \wh j. > > So I now think the best solution is > >...
On 5/19 Bob privately sent me proposed changes for pmx.tex to go with the new definition of \centerbar. Without going into the detailed coding, I'll report that limited comparisons of horizontal positioning between the current and proposed coding are mixed: in-staff full-bar pauses, single-symbol multibar rests, and raised full-bar half-rests stay the same (and centered); raised pauses are currently a bit off center and got worse; in-staff full-bar half rests are currently off-center and got better; multi-symbol multi-bar rests by eyeball appear to remain centered but become slightly more spread out. These mods would affect only pmx.tex but not the PMX code. There are still possibly other PMX constructs that would be affected; one that comes to mind that I haven't checked is vertically stacked pairs of rests in multivoice staves, and there may be others I haven't thought of. Considering the possible foreseen and unforeseen domino effects of the proposed change in \centerbar at this time, both with PMX and pure MusiXTeX, I would urge extreme caution before implementing it. Could an alternate approach simply be to use a different name (say \Centerbar) for the new macro, leave \centerbar as is, and modify the manual to explain the differences? --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
