TL;DR: The last emails actually answered my core questions and solved all my problems with that topic. Thank You all.
Dear Don,
I really didn't mean to offend you or get you upset, if that was the case I
firmly beg your pardon. I only wanted to make clear what I mean. And you're
right, I got the code confused a bit there (I will point out how and correct it
in a moment). To avoid further confusion I want to furthermore take into
account only the example with two staves per system ("Der Tag, mein Gott, ist
nun vergangen"), since the other one was focused on the "two pieces of music in
one document" problem, which is solved.
In the two staves per system example, which I wanted to use to demonstrate the
vertical spacing thing, because the change I aimed for is more impressive
(compare the pdf-files in the attachment), there is three systems (six staves)
on the page. Consequently there are only two gaps, each enclosed by two systems
-- only those gaps I wanted to adress by the term "inter-system space" and
those I wanted to shrink; but, however, I used the \spread command three times,
which was unnecessary and highly misleading (but didn't change the layout, for
the best I can tell, and therefore remained unspotted by me).
I hope with this information I can explain the following misunderstanding, if I
got it right:
"Don Simons" wrote:
>I assume you're aware that in your sample you did NOT apply the inter-system
>reduction to all the inter-system spaces,
>but only to 3 of the 4. Therefore the 3rd space got larger.
May it be that this refers to the example of how to print 2 pieces of music in
a single document, given by Andre van Ryckeghem? I think this was not meant to
demonstrate anything on vertical spacing.
Otherwise I suppose this referred to the other example, where there were 4
systems (at least in my output) and I probably used the term inter-system
spaces differently as MusiXTeX pros. As explained above, with 4 systems on a
page there would be 3 gaps which I wanted to adress by the term inter-system
spaces. The gap between title and first system, as well as the left over blank
space after the last system, I did not want to inlcude, even if there are
lyrics printed in them. Therefore in this example I did want to reduce the
space in 3 occasions and I can not spot any of those gaps, which I wanted to
adress with "inter-system space", is bigger than another.
Anyway, you guessed correctly what I wanted to achieve (only I don't mind if
they are systems with multiple staves or not):
"Don Simons" wrote:
>If you have a score with multiple staves per system, and if all systems are to
>be spaced equally,
>and if you want to uniformly change the inter-system spacing, (which may be
>what you are asking for [...])
and explained nicely why it's not reasonable to change the behaviour of PMX. I
did not know that inter-staff and inter-system space are linked and it would
not at all be worth the effort to completely change the vertical spacing system
of PMX for such a small convenience.
I still want to thank for the help with the size of the title!
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Dear all,
"Don Simons" wrote:
>There is no single, simple tutorial about the inline TeX commands. [...]
>Beyond that, you'd need to learn about the basics of TeX. None of it is at all
>easy.
I feared that already. This path is too steep for me -- at least right now.
"Dirk Laurie" wrote:
>Not on your computer already, but easy to get, are the personal macro
>files used by virtuoso MusiXTeX score authors. [..] files with names like
>mypmxdef.tex, mysetup.tex etc.
>Then look in their PMX sources for examples of how those macros are used.
I didn't try this so far, this might help a bit, thanks for pointing it out.
"Dirk Laurie" wrote:
>Whenever a PMX/TeX issue crops up on the list, it seldom seems to be
>an M-Tx issue too :-)
I will keep this in mind, thanks a lot, but for now I don't want to get another
jobsite started.
Best wishes,
Matthias
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