Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, David Allsopp wrote: > > This works here: > > if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF > if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 > rem if exist %1.pdf del %1.pdf > tex %1 && musixflx %1 && tex %1 && dvips -q* -tA4 %1 && ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf && pdfopen --file %1.pdf You've missed a subtlety of the script (perhaps I should've put a comment!). The purpose of the initial "del %1.pdf" is to deal with the case when you haven't actually opened the PDF yet - because pdfclose will start Adobe Reader even if there's nothing to do. This means that if your first edit of the day contains a TeX error (so pdfopen never gets called), you'll still have Adobe Reader in the way (which I would find irritating!). If the error message is irritating you, you can say instead if exist %1.pdf del %1.pdf > nul 2>&1 > > Is there any particular reason that you're not using pdftex? > > No serious reason. The .pdf made are twice as big with pdftex. A very fair point - especially if you're going to post the score online. And, with reference to Don's reply, I had no idea that slurs behave differently in each - but as I principally typeset Gregorian & Anglican chant, I don't use slurs very often :o) You learn new things every day... David ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, David Allsopp wrote: There are two options: a) Use GhostView (but it's not free) which doesn't lock the PDF. This is what I do normally, switching to Adobe Reader only for final proofreading as it's a nicer interface. GhostView auto-refreshes in the same way as yap. Yeah, the Ghostview guys have become copyright-fussy over the years! And since most documents now are in .pdf I'm too lazy to master two sets of commands like magnifying glass, move left or right, next page etc. :-) b) Use pdfopen/pdfclose. These programs come with MiKTeX (although I think that they're borrowed from somewhere else). They certainly used to be unreliable (based on posts on the MiKTeX list a few years ago) so I've never bothered with them. The snag is that you must remember to open your PDF with pdfopen if you want to be able to close it with pdfclose. Your batch file then becomes: [...] This works here: if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 rem if exist %1.pdf del %1.pdf tex %1 && musixflx %1 && tex %1 && dvips -q* -tA4 %1 && ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf && pdfopen --file %1.pdf I can't delete %1.pdf while I view it, even with pdfopen. But thank you. Is there any particular reason that you're not using pdftex? No serious reason. The .pdf made are twice as big with pdftex. Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
[TeX-Music] question
does anybody have intermezzo from goyescas for cello and piano?? thanks a lot! On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:18 PM, < icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-requ...@mailman.nfit.au.dk> wrote: > Send Icking-music-archive.org-TeX-music mailing list submissions to >icking-music-archive.org-tex-music@mailman.nfit.au.dk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-requ...@mailman.nfit.au.dk > > You can reach the person managing the list at >icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-ow...@mailman.nfit.au.dk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Icking-music-archive.org-TeX-music digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: beamed open notes (Pawe? Jaworski) > 2. smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader (Jean-Pierre Coulon) > 3. Re: smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader (David Allsopp) > 4. Re: [english 92%] beamed open notes (Don Simons) > 5. Re: smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader (Don Simons) > 6. Re: smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader (David Allsopp) > 7. Re: [english 92%] beamed open notes (Hermann Hinsch) > 8. Re: smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader (Don Simons) > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Paweł Jaworski > To: "Werner Icking Music Archive" < > icking-music-archive.org-tex-music@mailman.nfit.au.dk> > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:13:04 +0100 (CET) > Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] beamed open notes > PLEASE, DO NOT SEND ME SPAM! > > > > > > > > > Is it possible to type beamed open notes by PMX or M-Tx? As an example: 4 > > open > > notes with stems beamed together representing the value of a whole note. > > > > Hermann > > ___ > > tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list > > > http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music > > > > > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Jean-Pierre Coulon > To: Werner Icking Music Archive < > icking-music-archive.org-tex-music@mailman.nfit.au.dk> > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:12:01 +0100 (Paris, Madrid) > Subject: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader > At present my musixtex.cmd contains this (thanks to David Allsopp, 28 Jan > 2008): > > @echo off > if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF > if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 > @tex %1 && @musixflx %1 && @tex %1 && @dvips -q* -tA4 %1 && @ps2pdf > -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf && @start " " %1.pdf > :end > > because I want to view the .pdf immediately if there is no TeX error > (I like Acrobat Reader better than yap as a viewer). > > The trouble is that if I left the previous Acrobat window open, the current > call to MiKTeX Ghostscript ps2pdf fails because my .pdf file cannot be > overwritten, and I stay with the previous version displayed. > > How can my musixtex.cmd automatically test if my .pdf file is being > accessed to, and if yes, kill my Acrobat reader task so Ghostscript can > make the new one? I'm under XP. > > Regards, > > Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: "David Allsopp" > To: "'Werner Icking Music Archive'" < > icking-music-archive.org-tex-music@mailman.nfit.au.dk> > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:35:22 - > Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader > There are two options: > > a) Use GhostView (but it's not free) which doesn't lock the PDF. This is > what I do normally, switching to Adobe Reader only for final proofreading > as > it's a nicer interface. GhostView auto-refreshes in the same way as yap. > > b) Use pdfopen/pdfclose. These programs come with MiKTeX (although I think > that they're borrowed from somewhere else). They certainly used to be > unreliable (based on posts on the MiKTeX list a few years ago) so I've > never > bothered with them. The snag is that you must remember to open your PDF > with > pdfopen if you want to be able to close it with pdfclose. Your batch file > then becomes: > > @setlocal > @echo off > if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF > if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 > if exist %1.pdf del %1.pdf > if exist %1.pdf pdfclose --file %1.pdf > rem Uncomment these if you can cope with all PDFs being closed *only* if > you > forgot to open %1.pdf with pdfopen > rem if exist %1.pdf del %1.pdf > rem if exist %1.pdf pdfclose --all > tex %1 && musixflx %1 && tex %1 && dvips -q* -tA4 %1 && ps2pdf > -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf && pdfopen --file %1.pdf > > Is there any particular reason that you're not using pdftex? > > > David > > > -Original Message- > > From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk > > [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] > > On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre Coulon > > Sent: 17 January 2009 15:12 > > To: Werner Ick
Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader
David Allsopp wrote >Is there any particular reason that you're not using pdftex? I can't speak for Jean-Pierre, but there are two reasons I don't use pdftex at all. First, GSView works fine for me both as a previewer and as a pdf-generator. Second, I don't think pdftex handles Type K postscript slurs (in a test I just ran, such a slur was ignored.), and Type K is all I ever use. Long ago I decided any PMX slur improvements would be hitched to the type-K wagon, because in my view each of the other slur options has major drawbacks: font based ones often look funny, and Type M postscript ones require installation of MetaPost and generate multiple auxiliary files. --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] [english 92%] beamed open notes
Am Samstag, 17. Januar 2009 schrieb Don Simons: > I wrote > > >Hermann Hinsch wrote > > > >>But your demo isn't quite what I wish to get: The beamed notes should > > > >be > > > >>quarter notes and not quavers. May be that this is impossible. > > > >It's not at all impossible. See my previous post. > > I neglected to mention that with the macros I posted, you need to enter > notes into PMX with half the value you want to see printed. For example, if > you want a half note, you must enter a quarter. I did it this way so that > all of PMX's automatic beaming machinery would work on the now-beamable > quarter notes. Yes, I realized that and now I use your proposal with some additional redefinitions for longer notes and rests. So I am quite happy and thank you very much for your help. Hermann > > --Don Simons > > > > > ___ > tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list > http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-mus >ic ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader
Hah - it's so long since I registered that I'd forgotten that it's nagware, not shareware! But the nag was so annoying that even as a student I parted with 40AUD very quickly... as GhostView is also a good PostScript previewer (I got bored with always having to use ps2pdf just to look at something) David > -Original Message- > From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk > [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] > On Behalf Of Don Simons > Sent: 17 January 2009 15:47 > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader > > David Allsopp wrote > > > >There are two options: > > > >a) Use GhostView (but it's not free) ... > > ?? It looks free to me, but I didn't try to install since I already > have it > from years ago. > > http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ > > --Don Simons > > > ___ > tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list > http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org- > tex-music ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader
David Allsopp wrote > >There are two options: > >a) Use GhostView (but it's not free) ... ?? It looks free to me, but I didn't try to install since I already have it from years ago. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] [english 92%] beamed open notes
I wrote >Hermann Hinsch wrote > >>But your demo isn't quite what I wish to get: The beamed notes should >be >>quarter notes and not quavers. May be that this is impossible. > >It's not at all impossible. See my previous post. I neglected to mention that with the macros I posted, you need to enter notes into PMX with half the value you want to see printed. For example, if you want a half note, you must enter a quarter. I did it this way so that all of PMX's automatic beaming machinery would work on the now-beamable quarter notes. --Don Simons ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader
There are two options: a) Use GhostView (but it's not free) which doesn't lock the PDF. This is what I do normally, switching to Adobe Reader only for final proofreading as it's a nicer interface. GhostView auto-refreshes in the same way as yap. b) Use pdfopen/pdfclose. These programs come with MiKTeX (although I think that they're borrowed from somewhere else). They certainly used to be unreliable (based on posts on the MiKTeX list a few years ago) so I've never bothered with them. The snag is that you must remember to open your PDF with pdfopen if you want to be able to close it with pdfclose. Your batch file then becomes: @setlocal @echo off if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 if exist %1.pdf del %1.pdf if exist %1.pdf pdfclose --file %1.pdf rem Uncomment these if you can cope with all PDFs being closed *only* if you forgot to open %1.pdf with pdfopen rem if exist %1.pdf del %1.pdf rem if exist %1.pdf pdfclose --all tex %1 && musixflx %1 && tex %1 && dvips -q* -tA4 %1 && ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf && pdfopen --file %1.pdf Is there any particular reason that you're not using pdftex? David > -Original Message- > From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk > [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] > On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre Coulon > Sent: 17 January 2009 15:12 > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader > > At present my musixtex.cmd contains this (thanks to David Allsopp, 28 > Jan > 2008): > > @echo off > if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF > if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 > @tex %1 && @musixflx %1 && @tex %1 && @dvips -q* -tA4 %1 && @ps2pdf - > sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf && @start " " %1.pdf > :end > > because I want to view the .pdf immediately if there is no TeX error > (I like Acrobat Reader better than yap as a viewer). > > The trouble is that if I left the previous Acrobat window open, the > current call to MiKTeX Ghostscript ps2pdf fails because my .pdf file > cannot be overwritten, and I stay with the previous version displayed. > > How can my musixtex.cmd automatically test if my .pdf file is being > accessed to, and if yes, kill my Acrobat reader task so Ghostscript can > make the new one? I'm under XP. > > Regards, > > Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr > ___ > tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list > http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org- > tex-music ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
[TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader
At present my musixtex.cmd contains this (thanks to David Allsopp, 28 Jan 2008): @echo off if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 @tex %1 && @musixflx %1 && @tex %1 && @dvips -q* -tA4 %1 && @ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf && @start " " %1.pdf :end because I want to view the .pdf immediately if there is no TeX error (I like Acrobat Reader better than yap as a viewer). The trouble is that if I left the previous Acrobat window open, the current call to MiKTeX Ghostscript ps2pdf fails because my .pdf file cannot be overwritten, and I stay with the previous version displayed. How can my musixtex.cmd automatically test if my .pdf file is being accessed to, and if yes, kill my Acrobat reader task so Ghostscript can make the new one? I'm under XP. Regards, Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
Re: [TeX-Music] beamed open notes
PLEASE, DO NOT SEND ME SPAM! > Is it possible to type beamed open notes by PMX or M-Tx? As an example: 4 > open > notes with stems beamed together representing the value of a whole note. > > Hermann > ___ > tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list > http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music > ___ tex-mu...@icking-music-archive.org mailing list http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
