Dieter--
I managed to narrow this down to the full bar rests right before the change from 2 instruments to 1 . Then déjà vu did strike. I searched emails for \atnextbar and found that you had uncovered exactly the same problem in July. It was very tricky to nail down and there’s still no perfect solution, but there are work-arounds. Here’s what I wrote in a 7/3/19 posting, and it mostly still applies: “You're not doing anything wrong. You unearthed a very subtle problem that has never come up before. It depends on several specific unrelated things happening in exactly the right sequence. (Reminds me of the kinds of PMX bugs Werner used to find). It is basically caused by the whole-bar rests in the last bar before the movement break. The sequence of events leading to the problem is this: (1) whole bar rests by default are centered; (2) the centering is accomplished by \atnextbar, which isn't executed until a barline is encountered; (3) at the movement break, PMX enters the change in number of instruments BEFORE entering the barline. It turns out MusiXTeX is somewhat flexible here in that it would be OK if no instrument had 2 voices. But it's the bar-centered rest in the 2nd voice of the piano part that kills things...if you replace it with an ordinary note, it goes through just fine even if you leave the full bar rest in the 2nd instrument/3rd staff. “If you really want a centered full-bar rest in voice 2 of the piano part right before the decrease in number of instruments, I figured out a rather ugly work-around, but at least there's no inline TeX. I had to RTFM myself to refresh my memory, and I (re)discovered there's a PMX option 'o' on a full-bar rest that will suppress centering. But then you need to manually center it with an 'X' command. So just below is a file that works. “I'm very hesitant to try to change PMX to account for this, because whatever I did could mess up existing scores in unforeseen ways due to the complex interactions within and between movement breaks and bar centered rests.” --Don From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2020 4:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Tex-music] PMX: problem with changing the number of instruments I am a great fan of this feature in PMX and I am using it extensively over many pages and systems. But now I am stuck. I am working on the violin voice of the Ibert Flute Concerto. It compiles until the last few lines: % wieder einstimmig L22Mi.0cn12t m4444 c85 za+ zf+ r8 r8 c85 za+ zf+ r4 c85 za+ zf+ r8 | / %m3434 rm1 | / %m4444 f46x3 a- c- f8- r8 f46x3 a- c- f8- r8 | f46x3 a- c- f8- r8 f46x3 a- c- f8- r8 | / %f84 zc+ za+ r8 f84 zc+ za+ r8 f84 zc+ za+ r8 f84 zc+ za+ r8 | r4 f84 zc+ za+ r8 f84 zc+ za+ r8 f84 zc+ za+ r8 | / %f44 zc+ r2db // %a05 | / % a8 a r4 r2 ======================= BUt when it hits the "L22"-Statement, then I am getting the error message: Somehow I have a déjà-vue feeling, but do not remember what I did to solve the problem. If I counted properly , the "L22" is the 10th statement of this kind. Of course I will not bother you with the huge code, but if somebody had similar experiences, I would be interested. Regards, Dieter
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