Jean-Pierre-- I'm having a hard time understanding what you're saying and doing. But I'm quite sure your MusiXTeX coding is inserting some "unrecorded" horizontal space somewhere, because when I process it I get the dreaded "underfull box" (see below), and that doesn't happen with Bob's solution, nor with any other well-behaved musixtex file.
--Don ----------------------------- c:\Users\Don\Documents\PMX>gobigtex bachorna c:\Users\Don\Documents\PMX>echo off This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit) entering extended mode (c:\Users\Don\Documents\PMX\bachorna.tex (C:\Users\Don\Documents\musixtex116\tex\generic\musixtex\musixtex.tex MusiXTeX(c) 1.24PRE2 <2017-01-01> maxinstruments=6 max128beams=6 maxgroups=3 maxslurs=6 maxtrills=6 maxoctlines=6) \startmuflex launched by \startpiece bar 1 bar 2 bar 3 [1] ) Output written on bachorna.dvi (1 page, 2180 bytes). Transcript written on bachorna.log. Musixflx-0.83.3.lua7 (bachorna.mx1) This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit) entering extended mode (c:\Users\Don\Documents\PMX\bachorna.tex (C:\Users\Don\Documents\musixtex116\tex\generic\musixtex\musixtex.tex MusiXTeX(c) 1.24PRE2 <2017-01-01> maxinstruments=6 max128beams=6 maxgroups=3 maxslurs=6 maxtrills=6 maxoctlines=6) (bachorna.mx2) \startmuflex launched by \startpiece < 1> bar 1 bar 2 bar 3 Underfull \hbox (badness 1248) in paragraph at lines 19--25 [][][][][][][][][][][][] [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] [1] ) (see the transcript file for additional information) Output written on bachorna.dvi (1 page, 2184 bytes). Transcript written on bachorna.log. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre > Coulon > Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 8:26 AM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive <[email protected]> > Cc: Werner Icking Music Archive <[email protected]>; Jean-Pierre Coulon > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] lcharnote of a "personal" character and vertical > alignment > > On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Bob Tennent wrote: > > > I'm not sure what you mean by "horizontal shift" or exactly > > Don't you notice the vertical misalignment between notes at measure 2 ? > > > what you want but the following would seem to be easier and more > > flexible: > > > > \loff{\islurd1h}\tslur1e\qa{cdfe} > > Well, true with font-based slurs, but musixps manages very steep slurs in its > manner. :-) Or can I temporarily disengage musixps once I said \input > musixps? > > Jean-Pierre Coulon > ------------------------------- > [email protected] mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

