[Tex-music] TeX Compiling
Hi all !
Something strange happens since I began to use PMX : the way I get from .tex to
.pdf. Explanations :
Assume I have a .pmx file, named file.pmx. By executing pmxab file, I obtain
file.tex. That's great, no problem with that.
What shall I do with file.tex ? Since I used (very shortly) MusiXTeX before I
dowloaded PMX (which changed my life... or at least the time spent to write
music), I supposed I had to do :
pdflatex file
musixflx file
pdflatex file
But pdflatex gives the error :
! Undefined control sequence \rm
Moreover, it's the same with \nopagenumbers and \bye
That's why I'm using a second file, file2.tex :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{etex}
\usepackage[hmargin=1.5cm,vmargin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\begin{document}
\def\bye{}
\def\nopagenumbers{}
\include{file}
\end{document}
The command pdflatex file2 works correctly. With musixflx file2 and pdflatex
file2 again, the score file2.pdf is just great. But all that is a bit strange,
isn't it ?
Does anyone know (or has an idea) why I have these difficulties with \rm,
\nopagenumbers, and \bye ?
Thanks for reading that !
Xavier
Config :
Windows XP Pro 2002 SP3 / Vista SP3 (I guess it's the 3rd, I'm not exactly
sure... but I can check it if it is helpful)
MiKTeX 2.9 with TeXWorks (includes MusiXTeX package ; downloaded in April)
PMX 2.5
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Re: [Tex-music] TeX Compiling
Hi! Le 17 mai 2011 à 14:57, Xavier Moch a écrit : What shall I do with file.tex ? Since I used (very shortly) MusiXTeX before I dowloaded PMX (which changed my life... or at least the time spent to write music), I supposed I had to do : pdflatex file pdftex file, rather! -- Jill-Jênn http://www.jill-jenn.net --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] TeX Compiling
Xavier Moch xa...@hotmail.com wrote: Something strange happens since I began to use PMX : the way I get from .tex to .pdf. Explanations : Assume I have a .pmx file, named file.pmx. By executing pmxab file, I obtain file.tex. That's great, no problem with that. What shall I do with file.tex ? Since I used (very shortly) MusiXTeX before I dowloaded PMX (which changed my life... or at least the time spent to write music), I supposed I had to do : pdflatex file musixflx file pdflatex file But pdflatex gives the error : ! Undefined control sequence \rm boggle. there exist classes that suppress that command, but article doesn't. i don't understand what's happened to \rm, but it doesn't really matter Moreover, it's the same with \nopagenumbers and \bye all three are plain tex commands, and you asked for latex. (\rm is retained in standard latex, including article, to help people compile their old documents ... but people haven't learned the new commands, even though new in this context means since 1994...) as Jill-Jênn said: use pdftex rather than pdflatex. robin --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] TeX Compiling
Robin Fairbairns wrote as Jill-Jênn said: use pdftex rather than pdflatex. As I've pointed out many times in the MusiXTeX and PMX manuals and in postings to this list, there is an issue with this approach. Because Type K postscript slurs look better than the default font-based slurs, all PMX development in recent years has assumed that Type K slurs had been activated (although for historical reasons they are not the default). But PDFTEX DOES NOT PROCESS TYPE K POSTSCRIPT SLURS. The preferred approach is therefore etex = musixflx = etex = dvips = gsview and you can make a pdf from within gsview. The extra steps are transparent if you use a batch file, and even if they weren't, it would be worthwhile to avoid the occasionally bizarre shapes and other limitations of font-based slurs. --Don Simons --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] TeX Compiling
| MiKTeX 2.9 with TeXWorks (includes MusiXTeX package ; downloaded in April) Try musixtex file at the command line. Bob T. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
