An obstacle to the diffusion of MusiXTeX in a large audience is the problem of accented letters. The codes for getting them seem esoteric for the beginner: \'e for é and so on.

LaTeX solves elegantly this problem with the packages inputenc and fontenc. I just discovered that it is possible to use them with plain TeX, thus with M-Tx and PMX too. The single difficulty comes from the fact that these useful macros conflict with the definition let\:=\relax of mtx. Here is an example showing how to proceed:

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Pages: 1
Systems: 1
Meter: 2/4
Style: Singer

%% \input plainenc\relax\fontencoding{T1}\inputencoding{applemac}\let\:=\relax
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ifnextchar#1#2#3{%
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ifnch}
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@xifnch\else
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%% \def\;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \expandafter\def\; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@=12
%% \font\twelverm=pplr8t at 12pt\twelverm

{lyrics}
Ô «~po-ème~» d'é-lève na-ïf sans âme

%%w130m
c4 d | e f | g f | e d | c2
L: {lyrics}
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Since I don't know how your browser translates accented letters, I send a pdf file too.

Olivier

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