The "undefined control sequence" is what happens when you try to compile a
latex document with plain tex. I assume the mtx document is latex, and I
erred in saying to try tex or etex; I should have said latex.
Also, the "\setmaxinstruments{24}..." commands in the earlier message are a
bit mysterious...I'm pretty sure the original mtx source didn't have them,
and I doubt if the mtx doc requires them.
I have to leave for work now; if there's no resolution by the time I return,
I'll try to locate the source, investigate the mysteries first hand, compile
it, and report back.
--Don
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>Behalf Of Roland Stigge
>Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 8:23 AM
>To: Werner Icking Music Archive
>Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Compile error in M-Tx documentation
>
>Hi,
>
>On 05/02/2011 05:02 PM, Don Simons wrote:
>> I suggest trying to compile the document the old fashioned way, first
>with
>> tex (or etex), then dvips, then convert to a pdf with gsview or
>ghostscript
>> or acrobat if you really need a pdf. I know it doesn't answer the
>original
>> question, but whether it satisfies you depends on your objectives.
>>
>> Personally I'm very wary of any S/W that bypasses dvips, because I
>always
>> use postscript slurs rather than font-based (as I would recommend to
>> everyone), and they may not appear in the final output.
>
>That's completely fine, I'm not bound to any specific way of generating
>a pdf or ps - I would just like to generate the documentation at all for
>Debian since Debian insists of generating it from source instead of just
>using the "binary" pdf version from WIMA.
>
>Maybe my tex/etex approach as above suggested by you looks stupid but:
>=====================================================================
>OK, entering \batchmoderst@host001:~/temp/debian/m-tx-0.60d/doc$ tex
>mtxdoc.tex
>This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
>(./mtxdoc.tex
>! Undefined control sequence.
>l.1 \documentclass
> [11pt]{article}
>? q
>OK, entering \batchmoderst@host001:~/temp/debian/m-tx-0.60d/doc$ etex
>mtxdoc.tex
>This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
>entering extended mode
>(./mtxdoc.tex
>! Undefined control sequence.
>l.1 \documentclass
> [11pt]{article}
>? q
>OK, entering \batchmoderst@host001:~/temp/debian/m-tx-0.60d/doc$
>=====================================================================
>
>Or how did I get you wrong? :-)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Roland
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