Markus-- It sounds like you've made the most common mistake of beginning MusiXTeX'ers: you forgot to realize that MusiXTeX is a two-pass system. You have to run TeX once, the musixflx, then TeX again to produce a proper dvi file. The first tex pass produces a file jobname.mx1. musixflx takes this as input, and outputs jobname.mx2. On the second TeX run, MusiXTeX finds jobname.mx2 and that's how it knows it's the second pass. It will use the horizontal spacing information in jobname.mx2 to create a properly aligned .dvi.
If you've re-edited anything, then for obvious reasons you should delete the old jobname.mx2 before recompiling. It's best to do the whole process in a batch file. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markus > Fulmek > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 7:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TeX-music] PMX: Unsatisfactory PDF-output for barsant.tex/Mac > OS X 10.4/tetex > > > Dear Musixtex-experts, > > I encountered the following problem. After installing PMX 2.511 on my > Mac G5 OS X version 10.4 (using the binary distribution of Christian > Mondrup) everything worked fine - at first. pmxab produced barsant.tex > from the example file barsant.pmx. But then I ran into problems: My TeX > installation (Gerben Wierda's installation, TeXShop) did not find some > input files (musixps, font files for mxsk, psslurs.pro) which I managed > to insert manually at the (hopefully;-) correct positions in the file > system, so barsant.tex finally was compiled - but the output was very > poor. > All the notes were crowded together at the left margin beyond > readability, > and experimentally setting > \elemskip1pt ... > to > \elemskip4pt ... > made the notes readable, but still gave a quite unsatisfactory output. > > Clearly, I am doing something wrong (I am a non-expert, who just started > experimenting with Music-typesetting): Would anyone be so kind as to > provide me with some hints? > > Kind regards, > > Markus > ....................................................................... > Faculty of Mathematics ................ Nordbergstr. 15, A-1090 Vienna > Phone: +43-1-427750678 . Mobile: +43-664-1031751 . Fax: +43-1-427750753 > @: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ....... W3: www.mat.univie.ac.at/~mfulmek > ....................................................................... > > > > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [email protected] > http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
