Hello everybody!
When I first published my PMX manual (now more properly named
"tutorial")
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmxccn.pdf ,
Don Simons suggested that, rather than permanently trying to
update its "Tricks of the Trade", we should have a
separate section "Tips and Tricks with PMX" on the WIMA software
Web page, and that I should administer it. Well, here it is now:
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmxtricks/tricks.html
As you can read on that page, the main purpose of this is to make
generally (and easily) available all the many ideas on how to use
PMX more efficiently that you, the member of this users' list,
are continually developing. The most recent entry there (with
Olivier Vogel's mechanism to enable the use of 8bit characters)
is a case in point.
So the last remark in the "Tricks of the Trade" section of my
tutorial
"And if you have found a nice trick yourself, don't hesitate
to share it via the TeX-music users' list. Perhaps it can be
included here in the next edition of this manual!"
is herewith updated to:
"If you have found a nice trick yourself, don't hesitate to
share it by sending it to the author as a contribution to the
"Tips and Tricks with PMX" section of the WIMA software
page."
Actually, I envisage 2 types of contributions from you:
(1) formal contributions that you write on your own, and that
are more or less ready for posting --- these are the
preferred type, for obvious reasons!
Such a contribution should contain, as a minimum:
(a) the actual procedure of how the trick is used
(source code),
(b) a `README' that is indeed readable to the
non-specialist,
(c) a practical example of usage.
There is no strict format for these contributions; take a
look at the existing ones to get an idea what I have in
mind,
(2) a contribution that results from a thread of discussion in
this list, on a particular problem or issue. If the
problem (and its solution!) is of general interest to the
community, it should be advertised beyond the members of
this list. In such a case I will only have the option to
- either ask one of those who suggested a solution
to write it up,
- write it up myself. This is what happened in the case
of Olivier's solution of the 8-bit characters
question.
A final remark on M-Tx `tricks' : these are, of course, highly
welcome as well. The only reason that this thing starts out as
"Tips and Tricks with PMX" is that the sleeping beauty M-Tx has
only recently been kissed awake again, and that my tutorial
doesn't cover M-Tx, and I don't have any experience with M-Tx.
For the time being, we'll just include contributions to both; we
can always decide later whether they should be split in two.
ccn.
PS. I hope you have noticed that there is a new version of PMX
out: version 2.5. I am presently updating my tutorial
mentioned above; but I am not quite done. So stand by!
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