Error messages can be difficult to program, because its hard for the programmer to anticipate everything that could go wrong. In this case, PMX doesnt check anything about the next line after Ti; it just accepts it. Then when \\input musixper\ <file:///\\input%20musixper\> was used as an argument in the TeX macro \titles (from pmx.tex) something unanticipated went haywire. This sort of thing happens all the time; you just have to get used to it.
--Don Simons From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 10:13 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Fwd: percussion notes with PMX and musixper Don- there is no reason for this "Ti" statement. It has survived some copy and paste operation and escaped my attention. In my first test of your code I erroneously removed the blank line after "Ti". But still I find this error message kind off misleading. Anyhow, thanks again. Dieter Am 11.03.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Don Simons: Dieter This is very strange! When initially working out the solution, I had gotten EXACTLY the same error: Runaway argument? {\titles {2.0}{\\input musixper\}{2.0}{}{2.0}{}{0}}\en \endeq \pnotes \ETC. The problem was basically caused by your having used Ti and then leaving the next line blank. When I first copied your original source into WinVi, for some reason the blank line had disappeared, and the next line after Ti was \\input musixper\ <file:///\\%5C%5Cinput%20musixper%5C> . I fixed it by restoring the blank line after Ti, so that it contained a single blank space. Maybe that wont work for you, but why in the world did you put in Ti with no instrument name? Why not just get rid of the Ti?? --Don From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 1:42 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Fwd: percussion notes with PMX and musixper Don, thanks for your rapid solution. This would solve my problem. But for some reason or other it does not work on my Computer (Windows7 ,64 bit). I include the PMX file and error message. ================================================================= This is PMX, Version 2.7 , 3 Apr 13 Opening donexample.pmx Starting first PMX pass Bar 1 Bar 2 Bar 3 Done with first pass Starting second PMX pass WARNING In a title block, you have specified instrument and/or composer but no title for the piece. Bar 1 Bar 2 Bar 3 Writing .\donexample.tex Done with second PMX pass. D:\MUSIX\Jonah>if errorlevel 1 goto pmxerr D:\MUSIX\Jonah>if exist donexample.pml del donexample.pml D:\MUSIX\Jonah>if exist donexample.mx2 del donexample.mx2 D:\MUSIX\Jonah>if exist donexample.mx1 del donexample.mx1 D:\MUSIX\Jonah>Call "C:\miktex2.9\miktex\bin\etex" donexample This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (MiKTeX 2.9) entering extended mode (D:\MUSIX\Jonah\donexample.tex (c:\miktex2.9\tex\generic\musixtex\musixtex.tex MusiXTeX(c) 1.15 <3 April 2011> maxinstruments=6 max128beams=6 maxgroups=3 maxslurs=6 maxtrills=6 maxoctlines=6) (c:\miktex2.9\tex\generic\pmx\pmx.tex PMX, a Preprocessor for MusiXTeX, Version 2.7a <3 April 13> ) maxslurs=24 Normal \dimen register pool exhausted, switching to extended pool. maxinstruments=24 (c:\miktex2.9\tex\generic\musixtex\musixps.tex MusiXPS PostScript slurs, ties and crescendos 0.92 (12.5.2002) Normal \count register pool exhausted, switching to extended pool.) Runaway argument? {\titles {2.0}{\\input musixper\}{2.0}{}{2.0}{}{0}}\en \endeq \pnotes \ETC. ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning use of \C@ch. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> \bye l.52 \bye ? ======================================================================= What did I do wrong? Do you have an idea? Thanks! Dieter Am 11.03.2015 um 03:41 schrieb Don Simons: Dieter Heres an example of how to use inline TeX to do what you did in musixper_test. You could enhance macros /startper and /endper to include all the other kinds of notes; you could make alternate macros for the other kinds of percussion symbols, and you could include them all in a single tex file which you could input from within the PMX source. The \global declarations arent necessary when you use these as type 3 inline tex (at the start of a PMX input block, as in the example), but they also allow you to use them as type 1 inline tex (within an input block, for example for one note at a time) --Don % nstaves ninstr mtrnuml mtrdenl mtrnump mtrdenp 1 1 3 4 3 4 % npickup nkeys 0 0 % npages nsystems musicsize fracindent 0 4 20 0.05 Drum t .\ Ti \\input <file:///\\%5C%5Cinput> musixper\ \\let\qbt\qb\let\qut\qu\ <file:///\\%5C%5Clet%5Cqbt%5Cqb%5Clet%5Cqut%5Cqu%5C> \\def\startper{\global\let\qb\dcqb\global\let\qu\dcqu}\ <file:///\\%5C%5Cdef%5Cstartper%7b%5Cglobal%5Clet%5Cqb%5Cdcqb%5Cglobal%5Clet %5Cqu%5Cdcqu%7d%5C> \\def\endper{\global\let\qb\qbt\global\let\qu\qut}\ <file:///\\%5C%5Cdef%5Cendper%7b%5Cglobal%5Clet%5Cqb%5Cqbt%5Cglobal%5Clet%5C qu%5Cqut%7d%5C> % Body % Header AbepI1.0 % Av % space before first note of bar % big accidentals % equalizes interstaff spacing % type K slurs %\\setclef2{\treble}\settrebleclefsymbol{2}\treblelowoct\ % Bars 1 g4 g8 g8 g8 g8 | / \\\startper\ <file:///\\%5C%5C%5Cstartper%5C> g4 g8 g8 g8 g8 | / \\\endper\ <file:///\\%5C%5C%5Cendper%5C> g4 g8 g8 g8 g8 | / From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:23 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Fwd: percussion notes with PMX and musixper Hi Don, please find attached a simple example. The pmx generated Tex file is "musixper_test_nodrum.tex" and the modified Tex-file is "musixper_test.tex". The differences are the input command for "musixper.tex" and a decoration of the concerned notes with "dc" after the backslash. There exists a variety of percussion fonts, please see in the musixtex documentation on page 96 (section 2.23.18) . Regards, Dieter Am 10.03.2015 um 15:09 schrieb Don Simons: Hi, Dieter Please make a sample available, including both the PMX file and the altered TeX file. I will consider this, but I cannot make any promises. Im guessing there may be ways to do most if not everything you need within the PMX file, using inline TeX. I realize thats not as slick as having PMX commands, but it is a lot better than having to edit the TeX file. So that will be the first thing I explore. --Don Simons From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dieter Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:23 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: [Tex-music] Fwd: percussion notes with PMX and musixper Hi, finally (after an interruption of several years ) I managed to produce percussion notes with PMX and musixper, following an advice by Philipp Neukel. This is great, but it requires to manually change the "final" PMX generated TeX -version. And if this version is not 100 % final, then I have to do this more than once. Would it not be beautiful to have PMX-commands for bracketing a group of percussion notes and to include this information in the PMX file? Maybe with such a mechanism one could give other formatting hints to a group of notes. What do you think, Don? 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