Bob-- While working on the new complete PMX package, my going-in approach has been to produce a zip file similar to the past, containing among other things FORTRAN sources, DOS/Win binaries, sample files, the manual, and the reference card. I would upload this to WIMA and announce it to the list just like I've done with the last two betas, except that I won't call it a beta. I'm wondering what happens beyond this, and what I should say about it in the manual. The previous version of the manual says
" The native language of PMX is FORTRAN and its home port is DOS. The basic distribution contains the FORTRAN sources, and binaries that will run in a DOS window on a PC with WINDOWS95 or higher. Availability of ready-made distributions for other operating systems depends on volunteer efforts; they will be posted as submitted to the software section of the Werner Icking Archive." and later on " After decompressing the distribution file pmx260.zip, you should have these files: pmx260.for, scor2prt.for, two DOS executables pmxab.exe and scor2prt.exe, several sample .pmx files, pmx.tex, ref260.tex (TEX source for a command summary), pmx260.tex (TEX source for this file), PDF images of the latter two files. and pmx24-26.html showing changes from version 2.40 to 2.60. If necessary, compile the FORTRAN programs. I have tried to keep the source code as generic as possible, but minor modifications may be needed for FORTRAN-to-C translation and/or other compilers. "Once you have assembled a full set of files, put the executables somewhere in the path or in your working directory, pmx.tex into the texinput directory, and the sample .pmx files in your working directory (the one from which you will run PMX)." There are obviously some things that need to be changed. Can you suggest what I should replace these paragraphs with, to make them compatible with the new scheme of things? --Don ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
