A new version of PMX has just become available at
http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ .
PMX is a preprocessor for MusiXTeX that produces nearly professional-looking
scores and parts with far less effort than would be required using MusiXTeX
alone.
All files necessary for running the DOS version in a WIN95 DOS window are
contained in pmx210.zip. The full instruction manual is in pmx210.tex
(use LaTeX 2.09). There is also a postscript image in case you have
problems TeX'ing it.
ref210.tex is a summary of all the legal PMX "symbols" (commands). You
should still read the first few sections of the manual to get started.
Non-DOS users: You will either have to compile the FORTRAN source, or
see the manual for locations of other versions, or wait and other versions
may appear on the web site.
What's new since Version 2.00?
There are not many new features, but the biggest news is that the spacing
algorithms have been overhauled, extensively so for horizontal spacing.
One result is that there is now virtually no combination of overlapping
xtuplets in different voices that will stump the code. But some spacing may
come out slightly different than before; if this poses insurmountable
problems
with earlier scores then please retain your prior version for use with those
scores.
OTHER NEW FEATURES:
Slur midheight and curvature adjustments using MusiXTeX's \midslur or
\curve.
Staff-jumping beams work for downward jumps with no special tricks required.
Upgrades for scores with 8 to 12 parts:
12 simultaneous beams and slurs enabled.
12 parts can be generated by scor2prt.
Numerous bug fixes as usual.
--Don Simons
