After Dirk's ringing endorsement, I decided to try out TeXLive in Windoze XT. It did appear to install OK, although it took 3 hours, evidently downloading all of the thousands of individual files one at a time (uncompressed?), limited by a 5 Mbps connection. I did confirm that pmxab.exe and pmx2pdf.exe were in a bin directory that had been put in the path. Opened a command window, went to a folder containing test.pmx, and typed pmx2pdf test. It ran pmxab OK, created test.tex, started up etex, found musixtex.tex in folder c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/generic/musixtex, then when it came to "\input pmx", stopped with the message
! I can't find file 'pmx' By searching, I found that pmx.tex had been put into c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pmx This doesn't seem like a place where tex files should go no matter whose conventions you're following. I'm writing this email after about 30 minutes of fruitless searching for instructions about how to find out what folders are being searched, tell the system where the file is if its folder is not in the list, and then "update the filename database" (all things I know how to do in MiKTeX). If anyone cares to tell me how to do that in TeXLive, I'd appreciate it, and perhaps comment on why pmx.tex is in that particular folder. Meanwhile I'll probably continue searching and experimenting. But this is not my idea of a dream. On a related note, and before I did the above test, I was explaining to a Mac-head friend about the supposedly new and seamless way that people can get tex, musixtex, and pmx from online archives. To my surprise he wanted to test it out, and did a default install of MacTeX on the spot. After it finished (in about 15 minutes), I had him search his hard drive for pmx.tex and musixtex.tex, and he didn't find either one. --Don Simons >-----Original Message----- >From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dirk Laurie >Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 9:44 PM >To: Werner Icking Music Archive >Subject: Re: [Tex-music] New manager of the WIMA software archive > >2012/12/30 Don Simons <[email protected]>: >> working distributions of MusiXTeX, PMX, and M-Tx are now >> reliably available from TeXLive, MiKTeX, and MACTeX, and >> that all current files are accessible in CTAN as well. So don't be >> surprised to see some changes in the upcoming weeks. > >TeXLive 2012 is a dream. You use "pmx2pdf" or "m-tx" as the >case may be, and there's not much need to know anything more >except the input language. > >However, this is the one package that one absolutely must >download and install from the original version. The repackaging >industry tends to lag behind. For example, if you use the latest >Ubuntu LTS (12.04 Precise Pangolin) you haven't got it. >------------------------------- >[email protected] mailing list >If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
