On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Pantelis Andreou wrote:
> hello everyone,
> I finally, with a little help from my friends (that is you people)
> got mtx, pmx and miktex to work together in my operating system which is
> Windows NT. The problem I have is that process of getting a postscript
> file is quite complex.
> First mtx will run only if you are in the mtx directory, but at least your
> file can be at any other directory.
> Second pmx will run only if you are in the pmx directory and unless the
> pmx file is in the pmx directory the pmxb command will not work. Then,
> unless I move the file to where I keep musixflx.exe
> musixflx will not work. Of course I can move musixflx.exe into the pmx
> directory but that is a temporary solution.
> It would be prefered if one could run the whole process from any
> directory. Does anyone have a solution?
With MiKTeX you can just put pmxa.exe, pmxb.exe, and prepmx.exe into
<drive where you installed MiKTeX>:\texmf\miktex\bin and it should work.
Alternatively, if you have a local TeXMF tree, you can put those .exe's
into <local TexMF tree root>\texmf\miktex\bin, and that's preferable from
the point of view of keeping addons like PMX and M-Tx separate from the
MiKTeX distribution, but then you have to make sure to add <local TeXMF
tree root>\texmf\miktex\bin; to the SET PATH= statement in autoexec.bat.
I keep a batch file, Mtx.bat,
prepmx %1
echo %1 | pmxa
pmxb
call musixtex %1
along with the supplied musixtex.bat in the same directory as those three
.exe's. Then I can just type mtx <file> to run the whole process.
Jerome S. and Jeannette E. H. Colburn
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