I just thought of another way to get two graces on the same note. Stick in a 2nd voice on the same staff:
g85.a b4 ds-4 oT0 GlsW2c d | gd2 // rb2 Gscs5 ds4l | rbd2 / --Don > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don > Simons > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 6:08 PM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Using PMX to Typeset Grace Notes Both Before and > After a Note > > Jim-- > > In your test file it looks like you tried just about every conceivable combo > except for the one that works: > > g85.a b4 GWcs- ds4 oT0 GlsW2c d | > > As PMX now stands, I'm afraid there can only be one grace note per main > note. Aside from laziness, my main reason for not adding true multiple graces > per note is that I think in most if not all cases you could fake PMX out by > assigning the 2nd grace to the preceding or following note. The key details to > keep in mind are that a normal grace command G comes before the note (so > is assigned to the next note), while an after-grace (GA) or way-after-grace > (GW) command comes after the note (so is assigned to the previous note). > There might be situations where even more trickery is needed, such as if > you wanted both graces slurred to the same main note. For that, you might > want to take advantage of the fact that a normal slur can start and end on > the same note. So if in your example you wanted the single grace slurred to > the d sharp, you could use something like > > g85.a b4 GWcs- ds4 sd-1-2 s-1+.2 oT0 GlsW2c d | > > --Don > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Bailey, Jim > > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 2:19 PM > > To: Werner Icking Music Archive <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Tex-music] Using PMX to Typeset Grace Notes Both Before and > > After a Note > > > > Hello Everyone! > > > > This question is probably for Don. > > > > Earlier this year I was using PMX to typeset a piece of music which > contained > > grace notes both before and after a note. After a bit of experimenting > > I > came > > close enough to what I wanted with inline TeX commands. It seems to me > > that this happens often enough that there should be some way to do > > this in PMX. In the attached postscript file, the first bar is what I > > came up with > and > > the others show what I tried with PMX (graces on either side of the > > note, both on one side or the other, and in each order; I assume that the > "oT0" > > does not affect the grace notes). The PMX file produces the postscript > file. > > > > Jim Bailey > > > ------------------------------- > [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
