Hi, Helge-- I'm glad to hear you are making progress with PMX.
> I tried the barsant.pmx sample and was tempted to give up. I am not a tex > specilist and don't understand > ! I can't find file `musixps.tex'. > l.17 \input musixps > It looks like that the sample references a file that is not in the MiKTex > installation. > The pmx.tex should be installed in the texinput directory. I don't have a > directory with that name. The file musixtex.tex is in > C:\localtexmf\tex\generic\musixtex. Copying the file pmx.tex in this > directory doesn't work. When I copy pmx.tex to the working directory I > succeed. But how can I avoid to splatter up my directories with copies of > pmx.tex? The answer to both of these is related. Please see page section 2.2 item 3 of http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixwinstall.pdf . If you followed the instructions for setting up MiKTeX, or even if you didn't, you ought to have a "local TeX directory," usually called "localtexmf". You should put pmx.tex and musixps.tex somewhere in that directory. I have mine in localtexmf\tex\generic\pmx and localtexmf\tex\generic\musixtex respectively, but they can go ANYWHERE in the localtexmf folder. Then--this is very important--in the MiKTeX options program, which should be in your start menu, on the "general" tab, click "refresh now." This tells MiKTeX where these files are. Where to get musixps.tex? It's in both the most recent TeX distribution and also by itself in the archive. What does it do? Enables Postscript type K slurs. Do you need anything else to make postscript slurs work? Yes you do. Please see section A2.2 of http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmxccn.pdf . > Is there an simple way to add numbers as finger instructions to several > notes? I'm afraid there's no special PMX command to put in fingerings. You have two options: 1. Use the D (dynamics) command, with the arbitrary text option ("...") . You'll probably have to shift each symbol both vertically and horizontally to get it where you want, and you may also need to specify the font if you don't like the default. 2. Use inline TeX such as possibly \zchar4{\kern-3pt 1}\. --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
