From: john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Figured bass symbols in a text.
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:58:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813115849.1cb94033@sda3.wexfordpress.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E4F96CAF-6DD1-466F-8406-FD923970857E@gmail.com>
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:00:31 +0200
Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Hans,
> I just tested this for the figured bass symbols in my text. It is
> perfect.
>
> And it has at least one important advantage over the plain-TeX
> method, kindly offered by Michael Rogers, in that it uses the same
> font as that for he main text, which, in my case, will be probably a
> sans-serif font. The plain TeX solution, as far as I could see, uses
> only the serif version of LM, so it would haven given me serif-like
> figured bass symbols in an otherwise sans-serif document.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Kind regards,
> Robert
Consider also creating the figured bass (or any musical notation)
in the shareware package Mup. The output is a ps file. Then the
notation and any accompanying verse can be treated as a graphic import.
There are horses for courses. For music I always use MUP.
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2012-08-11 7:03 ` Robert Blackstone
2012-08-11 7:13 ` Robert Blackstone
2012-08-12 9:00 ` Robert Blackstone
2012-08-12 12:48 ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-08-13 15:58 ` john Culleton [this message]
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2012-08-14 17:23 ` Robert Blackstone
2012-08-10 9:35 Robert Blackstone
2012-08-10 16:00 ` Rogers, Michael K
2012-08-10 16:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-08-10 17:59 ` Hans Hagen
2012-08-10 19:09 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-08-10 23:03 ` Hans Hagen
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