> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 16:47:02 -0600
> From: David Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've just begun using pmx/musiXTeX (for the Mac) and am stuck on my first
> piece because it requires three voices per staff (a common enough feature
> in classical guitar).
>
> Is there another (Mac) preprocessor that can handle three or more voices?
Your definition of voice does not meet PMX's definition of voice. PMX offers
two voices per staff that means that the lower voice has down-stems and the
upper voice has up-stems. Each of the two voices may have chords with as many
noteheads of same duration as you want.
> The instructions for MusiXTex are mind-boggling but the program seems to be
> able to handle multiple voices.
Typesetting music can be mind-boggling. And yes, MusiXTeX is able :-)
> Is it a case of using pmx to do two voices,
> then adjusting the MusiXTeX coding for a third voice?
If such "adjustment" is really neccessary then adjusting PMX's output is
the least choice. Before doing that one should try to use PMX's in-line
TeX features. In the very beginning this requires looking at PMX's output
to add TeX-code which does not confuse PMX's coding but adds what is needed
