It may be interesting, when coding a sequence of notes within a unique pair normalshapemediumseries\notes...normalshapemediumseries\enotes, to skip one note place in order – for example – to set the third note of one staff at the same abscissa as that of the second note of another staff. This can be done by inserting normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\sk which causes a spacing of one normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\noteskip2.7.
If you just want to shift a note or a symbol by one note head width,
you may write
normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\qsk.
Note that these two latter macros must be used inside a pair normalshapemediumseries
normalshapemediumseries\notes...normalshapemediumseries\enotes. If you want to make a spacing of one note
head width outside, write
normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\nspace. Conversely, a more general
spacing is allowed within the normalshapemediumseries\notes...normalshapemediumseries\enotes pairs, namely:
normalshapemediumseries
normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\off d
where d is any TEX valid dimension, for example
normalshapemediumseries\noteskip or normalshapemediumseries5normalshapemediumseries\Interligne. In fact, if you look to the
MusicTEX source, you will find that normalshapemediumseries\off is the basic control
sequence used to define
normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\sk,
normalshapemediumseriesnormalshapemediumseries\qsk, etc.