There is a new test version of PMX available at
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/music/musixtex/software/pmx/pmxtest.zip or
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/music/musixtex/software/pmx/pmx227.zip
It is an incremental upgrade to PMX version 2.2.
Here are the most important changes since version 2.2. A more complete list
is in the readme.
1. There is a new version of pmx.tex, which must be placed somewhere where
your TeX processor can find it.
2. MIDI-only accidental. Activate by putting "i" anywhere in the
symbol for the note containing the accidental. This will cause PMX to
ignore the accidental during typesetting but honor it when making a MIDI
file.
3. Continued rhythmic shortcuts: Up to now, to use "." or "," the two
affected
notes could not be separated, so the first of the two could not have any
modifiers such as slurs or accidentals. Now that restriction is removed.
A note-symbol can start with "[blank]." or "[blank]," and will be treated as
if it were the the second member of the pair in the old syntax. The basic
note
value will be held at that of the prior note.
4. Dynamics:
Process the file "dyntest.pmx"to see all the available letter-groups and
hairpins. To use, after the affected note, enter "D" followed by one of the
following
"pppp","ppp","pp","p","ffff","fff","ff","f","mf","mp","fp","sfz",">",
or "<" . The last two are diminuendo and crescendo, and they are
toggles...the
first one of each starts the symbol and the next one ends it. You can also
enter position shifts, vertical as a signed integer representing
the number of \internotes, then horizontal as a signed number representing
number of notehead widths.
There is also a "Literal dynamics" option. In place of one the 12 letter
groups, enter any text surrounded by double quotes. The text will be
literally
used as the argument of a \zcharnote command. If not a TeX macro, it will
be
printed in italics.
--Don Simons
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
