> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:11:13 +0200
> From: Thorsten Ehm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> After a pause in using PMX, yesterday I coded a score and compiled it
> PMX was quite successful, but in the first pass of running MusiXTeX
> there occured the following error:
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
[...]
> l.902 \NOtes\cu{``?}
> \ast{.52}\ds\cu ?\ast{.52}\ds\en%
In a private discussion we could trace down the error. The cause for
the error was that the notes went down and down with many many ledger
lines until PMX generated some non-sense.
Although PMX makes a lot of input-checking to avoid bad TeX-input this
has not been detected. On the other hand the input was really non-sense
so that it isn't a real PMX-error.
Thorsten knows now, that it isn't advisable to code some hundred bars
before giving them to PMX. I prefer the method to code a piece of
music in logical parts which I process with PMX whenever I have
added some 5-50 bars esp. to see whether I left an octave in the
wrong direction. Afterwards I collect the logical parts either
in one PMX-file for the whole piece or maybe in one PMX-file
per movement which I then combine with different methods already
described in this list. This can be one TeX-file calling multiple
PMX-output/TeX-input files; or concatenating many dvi-file into
one; or ...
-- Werner
