Andre, your suggestion certainly does put the b4 more to the right, aligning it with the other staff as if it were the last note of a simultaneous sextuplet. If you wanted the b to be half as long as one of the triplet notes, you would probably want to use that notation.
But let’s be clear that that was never the objective of the F-tuplet applications that Christian brought up and that I addressed in the previous two posts. He wanted to typeset Bach’s dotted notation for a long and short note that align with the first and third notes in a triplet in the other staff. And then he simply wanted to replace the first note of the two with a rest. When he tried that as an F-tuplet with PMX 2.82, it went through OK and lined up as desired, but the dot on the rest was missing. 2 posts ago I pointed out that as it now stands, PMX 2.83 will add the dot, but will not let you adjust the height of the dotted rest. Then the last post showed a work-around if you DO want to change the height of the dotted rest, all the while keeping the same horizontal spacing. --Don From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andre Van Ryckeghem Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 8:46 PM To: Werner Icking Music Archive <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX Perhaps, the ‘b4’ in r4Fx3nf+3 b4 c4 / should be more to the right. This could also be an solution for the rare cases: r4+2Dx6n r+5D r-2 b4 c4 / Andre From: Don Simons Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 8:03 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX I’d like to point out that the notes in the F-tuplet I discussed earlier could be typeset without using the F-option at all, but with a horizontal shift instead. Then if you wanted to raise the rest you could use the standard command. --Don ---------------------- 2 1 2 4 2 4 0 0 0 3 20 0 bt .\ AbeK w6i g43x3n-1 f g a / r4Fx3nf+3 b4 c4 / g43x3n-1 f g a / rd8 X:-1 b14 X: c4 / g43x3n-1 f g a / rd8+4 X:-1 b14 X: c4 / ---------------------- From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Simons Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 10:09 AM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [Tex-music] Upcoming PMX I’m very close to releasing a new version of PMX reflecting various fixes requested by Andre and Christian over the last several weeks. Before finalizing, I’d like some opinions about how far to go with one of them. Christian has used some constructions like r4Fx3 b. With notes, this gives a dotted eighth followed by a sixteenth, horizontally spaced as if they were the first and third notes in a triplet. (It’s a very, very rare notation used by Bach, and no one else I know of). Christian pointed out that when starting with a rest, for consistency the rest should be dotted. I’ve worked out a way to get PMX to do that. The problem is that my band-aid coding is guaranteed to fail if you try to raise or lower the (now dotted) rest from the default, midstaff position. The problem occurs either if you try to raise it manually, or if PMX tries to do it internally as a result of the global AK option for keyboard rest positioning in 2-voice staves. The question is whether I should expend the considerable additional programming effort needed to make this extremely rare construction work in the doubly rare case where the dotted rest would need to be raised or lowered. --Don _____ ------------------------------- [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
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