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| 2 | <HEAD><TITLE> | |
| 3 | Note attributes | |
| 4 | </TITLE></HEAD> | |
| 5 | <BODY> | |
| 6 | <P> | |
| 7 | <A HREF="chordinp.html"><-- previous page</A> | |
| 8 | ||
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| 10 | </P> | |
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| 12 | <H3> | |
| 13 | Note attributes | |
| 14 | </H3> | |
| 15 | <P> | |
| 16 | There are several optional attributes that can be specified for each note. | |
| 17 | Any or all of these may appear on any note in any order | |
| 18 | after the | |
| 19 | <A HREF="chordinp.html#letter">letter,</A> | |
| 20 | <A HREF="chordinp.html#acc">accidental,</A> | |
| 21 | and | |
| 22 | <A HREF="chordinp.html#oct">octave specifications.</A> | |
| 23 | They include: | |
| 24 | <UL> | |
| 25 | <LI> | |
| 26 | <A HREF="noteattr.html#small">small note head</A> | |
| 27 | <LI> | |
| 28 | <A HREF="noteattr.html#ntie">tie</A> | |
| 29 | <LI> | |
| 30 | <A HREF="noteattr.html#nslur">slurs</A> | |
| 31 | <LI> | |
| 32 | <A HREF="noteattr.html#shaped">headshape</A> | |
| 33 | <LI> | |
| 34 | <A HREF="noteattr.html#ntag">location tag</A> | |
| 35 | </UL> | |
| 36 | </P> | |
| 37 | <H4> | |
| 38 | Small note head | |
| 39 | </H4> | |
| 40 | <P> | |
| 41 | <A NAME="small">A note specification can be followed by a "?"</A> | |
| 42 | to indicate the note is to be printed with a small note head, | |
| 43 | rather than the normal | |
| 44 | size. (Note: if you have several notes in a chord and want all of them to | |
| 45 | be small, | |
| 46 | <A HREF="chrdattr.html#cue">the "cue" construct, described later,</A> | |
| 47 | may be preferable.) | |
| 48 | </P> | |
| 49 | <P> | |
| 50 | Examples: | |
| 51 | <BR><PRE> | |
| 52 | // print the "e" as a small note | |
| 53 | 1: 1c e? g; | |
| 54 | bar | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | // make the second note small | |
| 57 | 1: f; ?; g; ; | |
| 58 | bar | |
| 59 | </PRE><BR> | |
| 60 | <IMG SRC="mugex12.gif" ALT="Picture of Mup output"><BR> | |
| 61 | </P> | |
| 62 | <H4> | |
| 63 | Note tie | |
| 64 | </H4> | |
| 65 | <P> | |
| 66 | <A NAME="ntie">A "~" can be used to indicate the note is to be tied</A> | |
| 67 | to the note of the same | |
| 68 | pitch in the following chord. That following chord need not be in the same | |
| 69 | measure, but it must contain a matching note. | |
| 70 | (Note: if a chord with several notes is to have all the notes tied | |
| 71 | to the following chord, | |
| 72 | <A HREF="ichdattr.html#tie">the "tie" construct</A> | |
| 73 | described later may be preferable.) | |
| 74 | The ~ may be preceded by the word 'dotted' or 'dashed' if you want | |
| 75 | a dotted or dashed tie; otherwise a normal, solid tie is drawn. | |
| 76 | The ~ may be followed by the word 'up' or 'down' to specify the | |
| 77 | direction for the curve's bulge. If neither is specified, Mup will | |
| 78 | determine an appropriate direction, so you only need to give a direction | |
| 79 | if you wish to override Mup's choice. | |
| 80 | </P> | |
| 81 | <P> | |
| 82 | Examples | |
| 83 | <BR><PRE> | |
| 84 | 1: d~; 8; e~; ; f; | |
| 85 | bar | |
| 86 | ||
| 87 | // tie the g (which also happens | |
| 88 | // to be a "small" note) | |
| 89 | 1: 2g+g?~; 4eg?; | |
| 90 | bar | |
| 91 | </PRE><BR> | |
| 92 | <IMG SRC="mugex13.gif" ALT="Picture of Mup output"><BR> | |
| 93 | </P> | |
| 94 | <H4> | |
| 95 | Slurs | |
| 96 | </H4> | |
| 97 | <P> | |
| 98 | <A NAME="nslur">A note can also be followed by a list of notes to be slurred to,</A> | |
| 99 | enclosed in angle brackets. | |
| 100 | A slur will be drawn from the note to each of the notes | |
| 101 | listed in the angle brackets. The notes inside the brackets | |
| 102 | are specified by a pitch and optional octave. No | |
| 103 | <A HREF="chordinp.html#acc">accidentals</A> | |
| 104 | are specified, even if the note to be slurred | |
| 105 | to has an accidental. Examples: | |
| 106 | <BR><PRE> | |
| 107 | // slur from c of first chord to e of second chord | |
| 108 | 1: c<e>; e; f; g; | |
| 109 | bar | |
| 110 | ||
| 111 | // slur from c+ of first chord to a& of second chord | |
| 112 | // and from c+ of first chord to d&+ of second chord | |
| 113 | 1: 2cc+<ad+>; a&d&+; | |
| 114 | bar | |
| 115 | </PRE><BR> | |
| 116 | <IMG SRC="mugex14.gif" ALT="Picture of Mup output"><BR> | |
| 117 | </P> | |
| 118 | <P> | |
| 119 | If there is only one note in the following chord, it isn't necessary to | |
| 120 | explicitly state it within the angle brackets; "<>" will suffice. | |
| 121 | <BR><PRE> | |
| 122 | // slur from c to d, and f to g | |
| 123 | 1: c<>; d; f<>; g; | |
| 124 | bar | |
| 125 | </PRE><BR> | |
| 126 | <IMG SRC="mugex15.gif" ALT="Picture of Mup output"><BR> | |
| 127 | </P> | |
| 128 | <P> | |
| 129 | The < may be preceded by the word 'dotted' or 'dashed' if you want | |
| 130 | a dotted or dashed slur, otherwise a normal, solid slur is drawn. | |
| 131 | The > may be followed by the word 'up' or 'down' to specify the | |
| 132 | direction for the curve's bulge. If neither is specified, Mup will | |
| 133 | determine an appropriate direction, so you only need to give a direction | |
| 134 | if you wish to override Mup's choice. | |
| 135 | </P> | |
| 136 | <P> | |
| 137 | There are four special "slurs" which are really slides to/from an | |
| 138 | indefinite note. They are most commonly used on | |
| 139 | <A HREF="tabstaff.html">tablature staffs,</A> | |
| 140 | but are allowed on ordinary staffs too. | |
| 141 | They are: </n> <\n> <n/> and <n\> for sliding upward into the note, | |
| 142 | downward into the note, upward out from the note, and downward out from | |
| 143 | the note respectively. These have to be in angle brackets by themselves, | |
| 144 | so if you want to have both one of these slides and another slur on the | |
| 145 | same note, multiple sets of angle brackets must be used, as in | |
| 146 | <BR><PRE> | |
| 147 | 1: 2c</n><d>;d; | |
| 148 | </PRE><BR> | |
| 149 | </P> | |
| 150 | <H4> | |
| 151 | Head shape | |
| 152 | </H4> | |
| 153 | <P> | |
| 154 | <A NAME="shaped">Sometimes you may want to mix head shapes on a single stem.</A> | |
| 155 | For example, you might want to use a diamond to designate a harmonic, | |
| 156 | with other notes in the same chord being normal shape. | |
| 157 | There is an entire | |
| 158 | <A HREF="shaped.html">section on head shapes,</A> | |
| 159 | so only a simple example is given here. | |
| 160 | To make a single note have a different head shape, | |
| 161 | use hs followed by the name of the shape in quotes. | |
| 162 | <BR><PRE> | |
| 163 | 1: 2e e+ hs "diam";g; | |
| 164 | </PRE><BR> | |
| 165 | </P> | |
| 166 | <H4> | |
| 167 | Note location tag | |
| 168 | </H4> | |
| 169 | <P> | |
| 170 | Finally, a | |
| 171 | <A HREF="tags.html">"location tag"</A> | |
| 172 | can be associated with a note. This would | |
| 173 | enable you to draw things relative to the note. | |
| 174 | <A NAME="ntag">A note location tag</A> | |
| 175 | is set by using an "=" followed by a name. The name can be either: | |
| 176 | <UL> | |
| 177 | <LI> | |
| 178 | a single lower case letter | |
| 179 | <LI> | |
| 180 | an underscore followed by one or more | |
| 181 | letters, numbers, and underscores in any combination. | |
| 182 | </UL> | |
| 183 | The name is arbitrary, and is used as | |
| 184 | a tag that can be referred to later. Examples: | |
| 185 | <BR><PRE> | |
| 186 | // associate tag p with note e& | |
| 187 | 3: 2c; e& =p g; | |
| 188 | ||
| 189 | // associate tag _end with note f | |
| 190 | 2: 1f =_end; | |
| 191 | </PRE><BR> | |
| 192 | </P> | |
| 193 | <HR><P> | |
| 194 | <A HREF="chordinp.html"><-- previous page</A> <A HREF="index.html">Table of Contents</A> <A HREF="chrdattr.html">next page --></A> | |
| 195 | </P> | |
| 196 | </BODY></HTML> |