> From: "Simons, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 17:28:19 -0700 > The disadvantage is that PMX only has a subset of the MusiXTeX commands. > Eventually you are likely to want to do something that MusiXTeX has but PMX > doesn't. You can enter MusiXTeX commands into the pmx source file. > Obviously, you must know something about MusiXTeX even if all you want to do > is use it this way. But there PMX helps, too. You may generate your first MusiXTeX sources by PMX and then read(!) the MusiXTeX source. Imho PMX's MusiXTeX style is excellent and by reading it you can learn a lot, how to deal with MusiXTeX. The main difference between a hand-made MusiXTeX source and a PMX source is that PMX already makes the line breaking. Therefore it uses \xbar, \alaligne, \stoppiece...\contpiece instead of \bar and \elemskip1pt etc. to supresss some error messages in the first MusiXTeX-phase. So if you ignore the later and read \bar instead of \xbar etc. you can learn a lot about using MusiXTeX. -- Werner
