Cornelius C. Noack wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Luigi Cataldi wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> >> >>>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 >>> >> >>I think we have two not so tiring solution: >> >>1) to add my (or else other) samples to the Don's PMX manual; >> >>2) to add an appendix to the Don's manual with my or/and other samples with >>codes, without the need to add comments, but only the links to the >>paragraphs of the manual ontaining the explanations. >> >>I think the second way could be not worse, because any contributor could >>add some samples, not only about the strictly PMX, but else about >>TeX/MusiXTeX features and about typesetting tricks (a lot of hints that I >>take from this list, or from the scores on the archive, should be useful on >>this purpose). E. g. the way to add a third voices to a staff, the way to >>use a particular bar line or a strange time signature or a uncommon symbol >>and so on. >> >>Luigi >> >>P.S. >>Thanks a lot, Don and Christan, for the nice reception of my manual. I'm >>very happy! >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TeX-music mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >> > > Hi! > I think your solution 1) is not so very different from what Don had > in mind; anyway, I am right now working on just that (and making > good progress on the PMX part, at least). Nevertheless, when reading > your italian version, I find that many things are expressed much > more clearly than in Dons manual (that is simply VERY short!), so > its worth translating your text where it augments Don. > > And you solution 2) is (at least as far as the work goes) not so > very different from producing a "compendium of good suggestions by > many people" --- it doesn't necessarily be edited, but could simply > be collated. > > When starting out with PMX, I found the greatest problem with Dons > manual to be the lack of an index. That is tedious work, but can be > added once we have a text with all the examples integrated. > > I repeat Dons call for collaborators on this: if someone could start > with the installation part and someone else with the M-tx chapter, > we could get this thing put together in a reasonable time!!
Probably it isn't necessary to write from scratch installation instructions as they are already available in Eva's and my HOWTO documentations for Windows and Unix resp. Bye -- Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark Phone: +45 89 49 53 01 - http://www.scandiatransplant.org _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
