Thanks to you and to Dirk for your help. I was not aware either that \triolet had been redefined since the version of MusixTeX that I was using ten years ago, or that the version of the manual I was consulting (which didn't mention \txtfont at all) didn't document the current behaviour of \triolet!
Eva-Raphaela On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 8:29:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>|Thank you; I'm aware that the manual says it can be redefined. My >>|issue is HOW to redefine it, since my attempts are not working. > Read the excerpt again. The *font used* may be re-defined. > \def\txtfont{\sixit} > Bob T. >>|On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 7:24:36 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>| >>| >>|How do I go about doing this without breaking anything? I would like >>| >>|the triolet number to be typeset in six-point font size rather than >>| >>|eight-point, and to that end I tried to define \sixit on the analogy >>| >>|of \eightit (i.e. \font\sixit=\fontid ti0600). This works, but >>| >>|subsequently redefining \txt in terms of \sixit (i.e. >>| >>|\def\txt{\sixit3}) causes problems with \triolet. >>| >>|> From musixdoc.pdf: >>| >>|> The macro \txt contains a default number ... and is >>|> initially defined as \def\txt{3}. ... The font used is >>|> \txtfont which is by default \eightit (in normal music >>|> size) but may be re-defined. >>| >>|> Bob T. >>| >>|------------------------------- >>|[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
