Dirk Laurie wrote > > 2018-05-20 21:33 GMT+02:00 Don Simons <[email protected]>: > > I’m working on PMX, trying to get it to handle (low) octave treble > > clefs predictably in all possible scenarios. One such situation would > > be where there is a single instrument with multiple staves, once of > > which has a normal treble clef and another an octave treble clef. I > > cannot see how to get MusiXTeX to do this, because in the clef > > substitution command \settrebleclefsymbol[n]\treblelowoct the argument > > n is instrument number, not staff number. It seems like within a given > > instrument, you’re stuck with all of the treble clefs being the same. Am I > right? > > Do you have a typesetter's attitude or a musician's attitude to this issue? > > As a musician, I would absolutely hate to play a piece with one treble clef > and > one octave-treble clef. I would strongly prefer two treble clefs with one of > them having an appropriate 8va annotation. > None of the above. It's a computer programmer's attitude, trying to make the program robust enough to cover all the bases. I don't really expect anyone ever to want this feature, but then I didn't expect anyone to want to change to and from octave treble clef within a single voice, and someone did. I suspect the result is going to be that it can only be done with some devilishly complex, original TeX programming beyond my capabilities, and that the ultimate outcome will just be "sorry you can't do that with PMX".
BTW, NONE of this would ever have come up if the octave treble clefs were handled in MusiXTeX the same as normal clefs. Just sayin'. --Don ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
