From 11a1186b093ff2ae9478c20979b6eec30f63f32c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 03:01:09 +0000
Subject: CTAN sync 202105140301

---
 macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/extensions.tex | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

(limited to 'macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/extensions.tex')

diff --git a/macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/extensions.tex b/macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/extensions.tex
index 7d60a4dbc5..5bf8dd667d 100644
--- a/macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/extensions.tex
+++ b/macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/extensions.tex
@@ -2176,6 +2176,40 @@ Available are:
 \keyindex{qbppp} and
 \keyindex{zqbppp}.
 
+ \section{musixvbm}\ixtt{musixvbm.tex}
+\label{musixvbm}
+Beams are normally produced by \texttt{musixtex} using special fonts.  Unfortunately, very long beams may have
+unsightly discontinuities (gaps or bumps). This experimental add-on
+(by Hiroaki \textsc{Morimoto}) produces vectorized beams without these
+discontinuities.  Compare
+\begin{description}
+\item{}
+\begin{music}
+\nostartrule
+\setclef1{\bass}
+\startextract
+\nnotes\ibbl0G1\qb0{GJKLMLMLMLMLMLMK}\tqb0L\en
+\endextract
+\end{music}
+\end{description}
+and
+\begin{description}
+\item{}
+\begin{music}
+\input musixvbm
+\nostartrule
+\setclef1{\bass}
+\startextract
+\nnotes\ibbl0G1\qb0{GJKLMLMLMLMLMLMK}\tqb0L\en
+\endextract
+\end{music}
+\end{description}
+especially when magnified.
+
+The only known disadvantage is that some \texttt{dvi} viewers
+including \texttt{xdvi} and \texttt{yap} do not support the \texttt{tpic} specials
+that implement the vectorized beams so that no beams are shown; however, Postscript and PDF
+output generated using \texttt{dvips} and \texttt{ps2pdf} (or \texttt{dvipdfm}) should be satisfactory.  
 
 \section{tuplet}
 
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