Don Simons wrote: > I'm glad that the Linux-Unix-Debian-pdftex contingent can now sleep > soundly. I also see exactly how the new PMX etex-demanding commands got > into the mix (when the embedded examples were compiled with mtx/pmx). > > But there are still a few mysteries I'd like to pursue, for my own > satisfaction if nothing else. > > They start with what happens when I try to compile mtxdoc according to > Dirk's instructions. I didn't think makefiles had a place in the Windows > command window, but to my surprise, when I unzipped mtxD060.zip and > blindly typed > > make dvitarget && make config > > as instructed, I did not get nothing. Instead, I got > > ln -sf make-dvi make-target > process_begin: CreateProcess((null), ln -sf make-dvi make-target, ...) > failed. > make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified. > make: *** [dvitarget] Error 2
Windows doesn't do this of its own accord - you have installed either GnuWin32, MinGW, Cygwin, UnxTools at some point in the past - given that you have make, you can probably find out where (and so what) it is by issuing "which make" from the command line (or "which make.exe" if it's an old version of which) which will reveal the full path to make.exe ... > Verry interesting, but from this point on I'm clueless on this path. You want to read O'Reilly "Managing Projects with GNU Make" (Mecklenburg's examples for compiling documents are for Docbook as that's what O'Reilly use, but the principles are the same) - only 245 pages and you definitely don't have to read all of it to gain enough tricks for TeX use. It's a considerably better way of working than using shell scripts for compilation. > However, just for laughs I will try to compile the document using > commands I do know about such as > > for %a in (*.mtx) do prepmx %a > > At the moment the next mystery is how to similarly send just the > basenames as arguments to the musixflx command. Or maybe it'll work on > *.mx1 ? %~na, but you've sussed that by your next email :o) David ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
