Werner.Icking wrote:
Imho the M-Tx documentation is good ..
It's fairly good. The lack of a summary of the things you can do is a
problem. Also the fact that it seems to be written to convince you to
use M-Tx (here, lookat all the neat things you can do with a few keystrokes)
rather than as a step-by-step howto (which would, IMHO, start with the
preamble).
... but I came to it after knowing most things about PMX. Imho a M-TX
user should read the PMX-documentation and it makes no sense to
duplicate the complete PMX-documentation in the M-Tx documentation.
The one problem with that is that not every PMX construct will be
valid in an M-Tx music line. I doubt the h, w, or l directive would
be useful in M-Tx; the L directive appears before the paragraph rather
than inside the M-Tx line, etc.
A list of exceptions might be enough, but ISTM that it would be easier
to copy the TeX input for the PMX quick reference and delete the
non-useful items.
musixdoc.tex shows how to combine LaTeX and MusiXTeX. If understood
it right then tex2ex is what you are looking for to combine M-Tx/PMX/
MusiXTeX with LaTeX. But in that case you have to understand the
MusiXTeX source generated by M-Tx/PMX and to be responsible for
the page-breaks. The MusiXTeX-source output of PMX *is* man readable
and that's a great advantage of PMX.
That is painful - you have to edit the PMX output by hand - and the
pmx shell script doesn't even want to pause for that, so you have to
run pmxa and pmxb by hand. I'm hoping to see something more TeX-like
- you put everything you want into your input file and run the program
over it to get your output.
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What good do you think that does? Most spammers have forged return
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Some technical mailing lists have been targeted by Spamford Wallace
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