Hello everyone,
I hope this ends up right as an answer to Benedict Wilde's question "prepmx failing on example document", since I don't literally answer, but manually type "Re:" in front of the question.
I had the same problem with M-Tx quite a while and wanted to try Benedicts solution. Before doing so I double-checked that the problem does still exist by first updating all LaTeX packages via MiKTeX Update (there was one for M-Tx as well, but no other MusixTeX stuff and no priority updates) and then running the example file. But, what a surprise, it worked. I also might only speculate on why. E.g. I remember the MiKTeX package manager not working anymore lately, now it does again. And because I had it with several other software as well that it worked on one computer running Windows 10 but not on the other, I guess the problem was some hardware - Windows 10 or maybe Windows 10 - LaTeX interference.
However, I started using MusiXTeX and PMX in the meantime and did have quite a hard time finding appropriate PMX example files for my particular needs. E.g. the first example I became aware of that would be with lyrics, was netsoos.pmx (it's mentioned in section 6.1 of the PMX manual), but since I could not produce a netsoos.pmx from the netsoos.mtx I had to go on searching for another example. I do think it would be a good idea to add netsoos.pmx, netsoos.tex, barsant.tex and quod2.tex to http://icking-music-archive.org/software/htdocs/Introduction.html#examples.
There is another detail on the WIMA website that made me grin quite a few times and I can't help mentioning it here: On the front page you state one would need Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to be able to open pdf-files. I always thought it doesn't really fit to a website of an open source project :D.
Best,
Matthias
>Hi everyone,
>
>thank you all for your help. Everything seems to work properly now,
>although I do not understand why:
>I downloaded prepmx.exe from ctan and replaced the corresponding file in
>the MiKTeX installation. After that, everything worked. However, it
>still did after I restored the original executable. So.. who knows?
>(It's hard to tell what the problem could have been now, since I can't
>reproduce it anymore.)
>
>Well, at least it works now.
>
>Benedikt
>
>
>
>On 07.04.2018 15:00, Benedikt Wilde wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been wanting to start using MusiXTeX for some time now, but the
> following error prevented me from doing so. I have searched for a
> solution in various places online, but could not find any. Hopefully,
> someone here can help me.
>
> When I try to run musixtex on the example file netsoos.mtx from the
> MusiXTeX site [1], I get the following output in the console
>
> d:\folder>musixtex netsoos
> This is musixtex.lua version 0.19.
> ==> This is M-Tx 0.63 (Music from TeXt) <7 January 2018>
> !! prepmx preprocessing of netsoos.mtx fails.
>
> and the program crashes.
> The (rather unhelpful) content of musixtex.log is
>
> This is musixtex.lua version 0.19.
> Processing netsoos.mtx
> prepmx netsoos
> !! prepmx preprocessing of netsoos.mtx fails.
>
> I am using MiKTeX on Windows 10.
>
> Any ideas on what might be the problem?
> (Note: I do not have a full MiKTeX installation. Could any missing
> packages be causing this behavior?)
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Benedikt
>
>
> PS: Some time ago I posted a question about this on tex.SE [2]. Then, I
> got the additional error message
>
> C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\scripts\musixtex\musixtex.lua:564: bad
> argument #1 to 'write' (string expected, got nil)
>
> This message is not present with the current version of musixtex (and
> m-tx), but it may still be the same error.
>
>
>
>
> [1]: http://icking-music-archive.org/software/htdocs/Introduction.html
> [2]:
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/351571/m-tx-fails-bad-argument-1-to-write
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