Rodolfo Medina wrote
> I didn't find in the MusiXTeX manual a command to type a non-spacing rest,
> analogous to, e.g., \zql{p} for a non-spacing note. In polyphonic scores,
non-
> spacing rests often occur. Now I'm typing in MusiXTeX language the first
> three-voices Sinfonia for keyboard in C major by J. S. Bach, and in bars
11 and
> 12 non-spacing rests are present.
I would not call the rests in bars 11 and 12 "non-spacing". They are simply
rests in a second voice on the same staff. I spent lots of effort designing
PMX do deal with all aspects of exactly this situation:
1. It can easily accommodate two voices on each staff.
2. There are blank rests which can be used to fill in the remaining time in
any voice
3. There is a global option AK which changes the rules for default vertical
positioning of rests whenever there are two voices in the same staff.
Together these features allow typesetting bar 11 of Sinfonia 1 with no
inline TeX at all. Here's the PMX source:
===================================
2 1 4 4 4 4 0 0
1 1 20 0
bt
.\
AKpb
w4i
d13 g fs e d c b a [u g a g fn ] [u g e f g ] //
fs83 r r4 rb2 /
rb2 r1 d14 e fn e4 t //
a14 b a g a fs g a b4 t b1 t g a bf /
===================================
and here is the result (you must allow HTML to see the image):
--Don Simons
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