Dirk Laurie wrote > > The M-Tx manual has since time immemorial contained this paragraph, which > I have a strong mind to delete. > > "You can tune the appearance of the rest by appending a signed integer to > the word, e.g. rm19+18. Roughly speaking, this moves the front end of the > rest to the right by 18 points. Since multibar rests can have several shapes > and may even contain as many as three separate symbols (in the case of > rm7) it is difficult to describe precisely what happens and you are advised to > experiment." > > I take it that PMX still supports that, but that it is probably no longer needed, > and will on the contrary just mess things up. Right?
I'm puzzled. PMX does not accept rm19+18. Did M-Tx pass that command directly to PMX? PMX will allow e.g. r2+2+3 but no position adjustments seem to be possible with rm. That's true at least as far back as version 2.3 (Feb. 2001). Should it be possible to alter the positioning of rm's? Related to that is the thought that someone might want to change the total width of an H-rest and the distance between the bounding barlines. I think that now the width of the allotted space is set to that of a full-bar note in whatever meter is active. These are of course doable but unless someone says they really want it, I'm not eager to exert the (mental) effort to code it. --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
