All-- Several days ago I got a wonderful surprise from Luigi Cataldi. He had not only translated the entire PMX manual into Italian (arguably THE language of music :-), but had included many typeset musical examples, added a detailed introduction on how to install all the necessary software, and another section introducing M-Tx. I haven't yet put a link on the software page, but here's one to a pdf that I made with Acrobat Distiller 4.0:
http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/pmx/lcgpmx.pdf . On my first try at distilling Luigi's .ps I quickly realized he had used bitmapped fonts for the Italian text. After some scouring in CTAN I found a postscript set of ec fonts. After several fruitless attempts to use MikTeX's Windows-based download and installion program I installed them in MikTeX by hand, refreshed the now much larger database, re-ran dvips and distiller, and that cleared up most of the postscript font issue...when I use Acrobat's Document Info to list the fonts, there are still a few Type 3 but it doesn't tell me which ones and I haven't located them by eyeball. It's not a show-stopper. But the PDF has other more obvious flaws: in the musical examples the staff lines do not all have the same weight on screen. Also, some of the boxes around the tables sometimes come out looking ragged. So here's question #1: Can anyone suggest how to fix this and make a better PDF? If you want to experiment with Luigi's original sources, here's a link: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/pmx/luigi.zip . You'll see that he embedded all the examples in lcgpmx.tex as separate .eps files. I haven't remade any of the eps's. Maybe there are some aspects of that step that could be altered to improve the final result. I think Luigi used postscript slurs. I hazily recall discussions about the options for distilling that concluded that with postscript slurs the only option is Acrobat Distiller. If that's all correct, then maybe there's no way to make a better PDF. Question #2: Would anyone be willing to translate at least the PMX section of this back into English? I just never found the time or energy to include typeset examples in my version of the manual, but Luigi's are a great contribution. I don't think you need to know Italian to do this, just PMX. --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
