---
% aligning caesura or breath marks
% in systems with more than 1 voice (staff)
% avr/ccn 04 mar 31
%
\def\OC{\caesura}
\def\OB{\bsk\cbreath}
%
% when using these before a barrule count number of short notes
% to adapt the number of \sk and \bsk accordingly:
% (note the difference between \caesura and breath!!)
%
\def\OCL{\sk\sk\caesura\bsk\bsk}
\def\OCLL{\sk\sk\sk\sk\caesura\bsk\bsk\bsk\bsk}
\def\OBL{\sk\cbreath\bsk\bsk}
\def\OBLL{\sk\sk\sk\cbreath\bsk\bsk\bsk\bsk}
%
---
2 2
2  4  2  4
0 0
1 1 20 0


bt
./
w180m
\\barnumbers\
% Bar 1 (use of the generic PMX commands):
f83 fa ob fa f oc | /
c45 ob c oc /
%
% Bar 2 (same as bar 1, but with aligned caesure/breaths):
f8 fa \OB\ f fa oc | /
c4 \OB\ \OCL\ c /
%
% Bar 3 (in contrast to PMX, several caesura/breath marks can be
%        combined on the same note):
f8 fa \OB\OC\ D"$\Downarrow$"+19+2.7 f fa oc | /
c4 \OC\OB\ D"$\Downarrow$"+20+7 \OCL\roffset{.4}\OCL\
c D"$\Downarrow$"+20+7.3 /
%
% Bar 4 (the number of note heads must be counted and inserted by hand):
f8 fa \OB\ f1 fa fa fa oc | /
c4 \OB\ \OCLL\ c /
% end of example file.