Review: Clean install of the minimal TeXLive system worked fine using pmx2pdf, once I put pmx.tex in the right place. Bob has informed TeXLive about the error.
I confirmed that m-tx works; in fact, the command "m-tx" actually produced a pdf. Next I uninstalled TeXLive and moved on to MiKTeX. Did a "basic install", version 2.9.4521. The pmxab.exe in the bin folder is version 2.617 (2 versions old), and when explicitly invoked, it runs fine. There's also a pmx.exe in that folder. Crossed my fingers and ran it. Got a popup saying "missing pmx.lua...do you want to install it from the repository?" At that point I decided instead to see if I could find it in CTAN. Searching CTAN for "pmx.lua" gave no results. But then, neither did a search for "pmxab.exe", which I subsequently found manually in the archive as part of the pmx package. ??? So I ran pmx.exe again, and this time took up MiKTeX's offer to install pmx.lua from the repository. The automated installation process terminated with a message in reference to pmx.lua saying "the Lua script could not be found". The process had in fact created a folder "MiKTeX 2.9/scripts/pmx" and inserted pmx2pdf.lua there. Typing "pmx" gave the same "missing pmx.lua" as before. I couldn't figure out how to manually run pmx2pdf.lua...typing pmx2pdf or pmx2pdf.lua didn't do anything because windoze didn't recognize that as an executable. Renamed pmx2pdf.lua to pmx.lua. Typed pmx again, but it still said it couldn't find pmx.lua. Refreshing the filename database didn't help. So out of ideas for the time being, gave up on getting the script to work. I then proceeded to finish processing the TeX test file manually. On the first etex pass, again files were missing, both from musixtex and musixtex-fonts, but MiKTeX offered to install them and this time did so successfully. Manually completing the sequence musixflx, etex, dvips did result in a proper postscript file. I find it quite curious that the basic MiKTeX install included pmxab.exe and the mysterious pmx.exe (and maybe musixflx.exe; I didn't check soon enough), but was still missing some musixtex files and fonts. Seems a little "cart-before-the-horse." None of this is do-or-die at all because I'm doing it on a backup machine, and I have no intention at the moment to change my mainline TeX system. I'm just trying to satisfy my curiosity about how well the default installation procedures and pmx scripts work for current TeXLive and MiKTeX. Comments are welcome. --Don Simons ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
