> Don Simons <[email protected]> writes: > > > Rodolfo-- > > ... > > I'm attaching cl361b.pmx where I fixed this problem (by deleting the > > last “pi”). I confirmed that it compiles and am hoping it does for > > you. If not, please include the complete error message you get, > > including the lines following the error description, which will > > confirm exactly which line, and which position in that line, your version of > PMX thinks the error is in. > > > > --Don > > > Thanks indeed, all of you. The correction you made works fine for me. > Unfortunately, similar errors are produced also with the other files from > Clementi sonatinas, and also with Chopin waltzes. With Clementi I tried with > no success to delete the last `pi' similarly as you did, whereas processing > waltzafm.pmx produces: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is PMX, Version 2.7 , 3 Apr 13 > Opening waltzafm.pmx > > Starting first PMX pass > > > ERROR in line 61, bar 0 Illegal character in MIDI input data > v > It138i2:2 > ^ > May be too many args to i,v,b, or T. As of Ver. 2.7, should be noinst, not nv > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It's a pity, because really the process pmx -> tex is useful for what I > want... > Neither do I have the knowledge now to do myself the corrections. And > we're probably talking of quite a lot of files to re-edit. > > Thanks, > > Rodolfo
Rodolfo, I really hope you don't give up on PMX because of this. Besides trying to activate an older version of PMX as Dirk suggested, there are several other work-arounds: 1. If you don't care about the midi file, just delete or comment out (with "%") the line with the "I" command 2. If you do want the midi, take a few minutes to learn the syntax of the "I" command. I tried to explain it as clearly as possible in Chapter 4 on p. 27 of pmx270.pdf. More generally, I hope you'll take the time to learn PMX syntax and create your own PMX sources. Anyone who can learn MusiXTeX can learn PMX in 1/4 the time. You said you wanted to be able to make multiple versions with different articulations...I hope you weren't planning to make the alterations in the TeX file, but to make alternate PMX files you'd need to learn more about PMX syntax. As for your unsuccessful tests, first I tried cl362bc.pmx; for me it behaved exactly like cl361b.pmx in that it compiled fine after removing the last "pi". So without more info I can't help with the other Clementi's. You didn't say which ones failed, but did you also extract to the same folder the additional .tex files in the zip? A PMX source file can input supplemental tex files (usually containing special tex definitions later used as inline tex in the PMX source), and those must be present for successful TeX compilation. For example, I also tried waltzafm.pmx. Again, either fixing or deleting the "I" command made the PMX compilation work. However, the typesetter had included a PMX command to input "mywaltzafm" and that tex file was not present in the archived zip file, so the TeX compilation failed. Of course there nothing I can do to fix that. --Don Simons ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
