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master 06541762d7d: ; Fix Calc manual
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
master 06541762d7d: ; Fix Calc manual |
Date: |
Sun, 26 May 2024 03:29:07 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit 06541762d7d994bedf0c0bd20601047d43de25d5
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
; Fix Calc manual
* doc/misc/calc.texi (History and Acknowledgments)
(Musical Notes): Fix markup due to makeinfo 4.13 support.
---
doc/misc/calc.texi | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/misc/calc.texi b/doc/misc/calc.texi
index bcedee8a946..56ebc589960 100644
--- a/doc/misc/calc.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/calc.texi
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ bent, contributed ideas and algorithms for a number of
Calc features
including modulo forms, primality testing, and float-to-fraction conversion.
Units were added at the eager insistence of Mass Sivilotti. Later,
-Ulrich Müller at CERN and Przemek Klosowski at NIST provided invaluable
+Ulrich M@"{u}ller at CERN and Przemek Klosowski at NIST provided invaluable
expert assistance with the units table. As far as I can remember, the
idea of using algebraic formulas and variables to represent units dates
back to an ancient article in Byte magazine about muMath, an early
@@ -28492,12 +28492,25 @@ B and
the octave numbered 0 was chosen to correspond to the lowest
audible frequency. Using this system, middle C (about 261.625 Hz)
corresponds to the note @slanted{C} in octave 4 and is denoted
-@slanted{C4}. Any frequency can be described by giving a note plus an
+@iftex
+@slanted{C@sub{4}}.
+@end iftex
+@ifnottex
+@slanted{C} with subscript @slanted{4}.
+@end ifnottex
+Any frequency can be described by giving a note plus an
offset in cents (where a cent is a ratio of frequencies so that a
semitone consists of 100 cents).
The midi note number system assigns numbers to notes so that
-@slanted{C-1} corresponds to the midi note number 0 and @slanted{G9}
+@iftex
+@slanted{C@sub{-1}} corresponds to the midi note number 0, and
+@slanted{G@sub{9}}
+@end iftex
+@ifnottex
+@slanted{C} with subscript @slanted{-1} corresponds to the midi note
+number 0, and @slanted{G} with subscript @slanted{9}
+@end ifnottex
corresponds to the midi note number 127. A midi controller can have
up to 128 keys and each midi note number from 0 to 127 corresponds to
a possible key.
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