On Thursday, May 12, 2005 at 7:51:15 PM, you wrote: > (3) It's quite courageous of you to start learning musixTeX > with coding in straight musixTeX. You should by all means > get familiar with PMX: it simplifies the use of musixTeX > enormously (and that's an understatement).
That depends, though, on the types of scores you want to create. PMX, for perfectly understandable reasons, allows you to set only two voices per staff. To add a third voice (assuming you want independent stems, which, in the case of a three-voice Bach fugue for solo violin transcribed for guitar), you need to resort to inline TeX -- in other words, you need to learn raw MusixTeX in addition to PMX. I've always done all my typesetting in raw MusixTeX for precisely this reason. In the end it's quicker than learning how to use the preprocessor. BTW, re courage: Way back when, and with a fair bit of help from this list, I not only ventured into straight MusixTeX, I also did it with no prior knowledge of TeX (or any other programming language). Given half a brain and sufficient attention span to RTFM, it can be done. :) Eva Jaksch ... who's wondering whether the "Writing/Processing MusixTeX files" section of the HOWTO should be modified to include a more emphatic note to the effect that Thou Shalt Not Use LaTeX to process MusixTeX scores or the Mysterious Error Messages From Hell Shall Smite Thee, or something... _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
