Hiroaki Morimoto has been working on a new version of MusiXTeX that will
allow 24 instruments and correspondingly more slurs, beams, etc. I have also
been working to make PMX compatible with the greatly expanded MusiXTeX
capacity. I would like a little feedback to help me decide whether to
include a certain option in PMX.
The new MusiXTeX will seamlessly process virtually all "old" MusiXTeX files
when run with any old version of TeX. However, to allow more than 12
instruments, the command \setmaxinstruments{24} will have to be entered, and
the file will have to be processed with eTeX.
The question before me is whether to have PMX once and for all issue
\setmaxinstruments{24}, thereby requiring all new PMX-generated TeX files to
be processed with eTeX. The alternative is to build into PMX a user option
to select whether to produce an "old" or "new" MusiXTeX file. Right now I'm
leaning strongly toward making the new PMX produce only "new" files, ones
that require the new musixtex.tex and eTeX, and I intend to follow that
course unless I hear any convincing arguments why I should spend the extra
effort to try to make the new PMX capable of producing "old" MusiXTeX files
as an option. In any event the current version of PMX will remain available
as long as there is a host for the software part of WIMA.
--Don Simons
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