Werner Icking wrote, on the topic of a PMX variant that allows 15 voices:
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> So your PMX-variant may result in nasty error-situations that
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Dirk Laurie wrote:
> So I vote in favour of the big PMX.
I agree with both, Werner and Dirk. I have done it, although only
with 11 voices.
PMX does produce errors in giving the ASCII symbols just above
X39. Furthermore, it leaves possible numbers of beams empty.
Slurs behave differently, giving stars for numbers >10. Several
other variables are also affected,
e.g. the number of full bar rests is limited in PMX.
Manual editing of the TeX source is thus unavoidable.
BUT: the time saving is then still 85% instead of 95% in comparison
to set it in MusiXTeX. Furthermore, the score is much easier
to overlook. Error-correcting still remains easier to do
in PMX, importing the pertaining bars into the edited MusiXTeX file...
The tool is not perfect, but better to work with a lousy tool than
with bare hands. Working with postprocessing editor macros further
cuts down the manual labor, but cannot remove all errors.
So my vote is definitely IN FAVOR for the large version if an appropriate
caveat is clearly stated in the manual.
Christof
