Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > .pmx and .mtx belong to the MusiXTeX preprocessor pmx and the pmx
> > preprocessor M-Tx (see http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/musixtex/ )
> > resp. I more than doubt that convertion utilities from these formats
> > to the mudela format exist. The only way I can figure out to
>
> MTX and PMX are quite simple formats, and it should be easy to write a
> Python script to do the conversion for you. I wrote one for ABC once,
> just to find out how difficult it was, and ... it isn't. I took a
> look at PMX, and it seems comparable to ABC in difficulty.
As a very frequent user of mtx/pmx I tend to say that these formats are not as simple
as they might look at first sight. And you will encounter problems with things possible
in lilypond but yet not in mtx/pmx, for example xtuplets with non-equal length notes.
Another difficulty is that lilypond and pmx behave very different as to the
distribution of measures on systems and pages. While Lilypond takes her own decisions
pmx has to know what the typesetter wants. When it comes to converting music with
lyrics (to mtx) I guess that a conversion method would really hard to implement.
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