Don Simons <[email protected]> writes:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote
>> >> I wish a way of transposing a note that would affect only that note
>> >> and not any note until next `\en' command, as ' and ` do instead.
> ...
>> >
>> > Alternatively, a one- or two-digit, positive or negative integer can
>> > always be used.
>>
>>
>> Thanks. But in the next versions of MusiXTeX, I would hope that a new way
>> of `single note' transposition was introduced, so to affect, if desired,
> only a
>> single note. This for two reasons: the notation with digits is not good
> when
>> the piece is to be entirely transposed, and second because, with such a
>> `single note affecting transposition', it would be enough for the user, to
> write
>> notes, just to remember the seven letters: a, b, c, d, e, f, g and their
> capital
>> correspondent: A, B, C, D, E, F, G. So writing notes would be simpler.
>>
>
> I've been seeing the complicated negotiations that followed this, and
> wondering all along "why?",
Because I hadn't thought of the simple solution to do 'p! and `p! and put
\zcharnote{}{} in parenthesis: {\zcharnote{}{}}.
> until this morning when I looked up the start of
> the thread. I still wonder why, given that PMX directly and simply addresses
> both of the stated reasons --- full-score transposition and simple names for
> notes. And furthermore, PMX implicitly handles another MusiXTeX
> transposition issue: setting the default directions of beams.
Because, although I'm new to MusiXTeX, I'm an old plain TeX user so I'm
accustomed with plain TeX and its language and feel at ease and at home with
it, and MusiXTeX is written in plain TeX language.
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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