Re: [TeX-Music] Understanding Postscript-to-pdf conversion better.

2009-04-07 Thread David Allsopp
Those search paths are hard coded and can be ignored - mgs -h gives non-existent paths on my system but still works (mine is installed in C:\Program Files\GhostScript). Again, I think that MiKTeX sets the environment correctly when mgs is actually called to override the hard-coded paths. Christian

Re: [TeX-Music] Magical command

2009-04-07 Thread David Allsopp
In fact, you can make it shorter on most systems by saying head -28 chopin_rulez.pmx > ... (got a funny feeling that POSIX deprecated the -[number] syntax as it's weird to have a command with a near-infinite number of switches but there were too many scripts and admins who/which didn't bother wi

Re: [TeX-Music] Understanding Postscript-to-pdf conversion better.

2009-04-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, David Allsopp wrote: Short answer - you don't need GhostScript installed for MiKTeX's ps2pdf to work (sorry Robin!). MiKTeX is designed to be megalithic in that regard and have no external dependencies. Humm! mgs -h gives at the end of the help message: Search path: c:/gs/

[TeX-Music] Understanding Postscript-to-pdf conversion better.

2009-04-07 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
Both the MiKTeX and Ghostscript distributions contains a ps2pdf.bat file. I have both packages installed. If I type ps2pdf -h it seems that of MiKTeX is called. What will happen if I don't have Ghostscript installed? Does the MiKTeX distribution need Ghostscript for the ps2pdf job, for the fon

Re: [TeX-Music] Understanding Postscript-to-pdf conversion better.

2009-04-07 Thread David Allsopp
Short answer - you don't need GhostScript installed for MiKTeX's ps2pdf to work (sorry Robin!). MiKTeX is designed to be megalithic in that regard and have no external dependencies. MiKTeX has an embedded version of GhostScript (gswin32c.exe patched and renamed to mgs.exe)... it does some weird pa

Re: [TeX-Music] Understanding Postscript-to-pdf conversion better.

2009-04-07 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: > Both the MiKTeX and Ghostscript distributions contains a ps2pdf.bat > file. I have both packages installed. If I type ps2pdf -h it seems > that of MiKTeX is called. > > What will happen if I don't have Ghostscript installed? Does the > MiKTeX distribution need Ghostsc

Re: [TeX-Music] Understanding Postscript-to-pdf conversion better.

2009-04-07 Thread Robin Fairbairns
David Allsopp wrote: > Short answer - you don't need GhostScript installed for MiKTeX's ps2pdf to > work (sorry Robin!). MiKTeX is designed to be megalithic in that regard and > have no external dependencies. > > MiKTeX has an embedded version of GhostScript (gswin32c.exe patched and > renamed t