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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/autosp/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/autosp/README index e8b174dc3b7..ea1b5218811 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/autosp/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/autosp/README @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ This is the README for the autosp package, -version 2017-04-06. +version 2018-02-23. autosp is a preprocessor that generates note-spacing commands for MusiXTeX scores. It simplifies the creation @@ -25,13 +25,6 @@ precede note segments, allowing more flexible source formatting; the line breaks and spaces will be elided from the output. -If applied to a file with .tex extension, autosp will -process conventional note-spacing commands (but not \vnotes -or \znotes) similarly. This is intended to correct spacing -in an extracted single-instrument part, but may not -produce satisfactory output when applied to a conventional -multi-instrument MusiXTeX score. - If there is a single staff, consecutive whole-bar rest bars are merged into a multi-bar rest. Bar-centered rests can be coded using the standard \def\atnextbar notation but also @@ -39,14 +32,19 @@ by using the non-standard command \Cpause in a note segment. Spacing commands \sk and \hsk in the source are discarded, but not \qsk, \hqsk or \qqsk; moreover non-standard commands -\Qsk, \HQsk and \QQsk generate "global" skips; i.e., the -effect of \qsk, \hqsk or \qqsk in *every* staff. +\Qsk, \TQsk, \HQsk and \QQsk generate "global" skips; i.e., the +effect of \qsk, \tqsk, \hqsk or \qqsk in *every* staff. A note segment can be completely empty, but if a note segment should start with or contain a "space," the note-value of that space must be made explicit with a command of the form \ha{*}, \qa{.*}, \qa{*}, \ca{*}, etc. +From version 2017-06-14, the effects of \TransformNotes calls are +implemented by the pre-processor. This enables use of autosp with +musixlyr.tex, which is incompatible with the musixtnt.tex implementation +of \TransformNotes. + All other conventional MusiXTeX commands are output exactly as given in the input. @@ -114,13 +112,18 @@ comments of the form %barno appended to commands such as \bar, \alaligne, etc. replacing any existing comments. Bar-numbering in the MusiXTeX output is not affected +Also included is the program tex2aspc which re-factors +conventional MusiXTeX scores to aspc format suitable for +autosp pre-processing by merging every conventional notes +commands in a measure into a single \anotes command. + To install the autosp package, unzip autosp.tds.zip at the root of a local or personal texmf tree and update the file-name database. This will install documentation and examples. -On Windows or MacOSX, install the relevant binaries on the -PATH of executables. On Unix-like systems, unpack the +On Windows or MacOSX, install the relevant binaries on +the PATH of executables. On Unix-like systems, unpack the .tar.gz archive, and compile and install using the sequence ./configure && make && sudo make install |