On Thu, 19 May 2005, Don Simons wrote: > > thought you were taking into account the way TeX was going to change the > octave. As you can see, PMX is still confused about the default directions > of the stems; that's because it still thinks it's putting the notes much > lower. The moral of this story is: "Don't use letters for pitches in in-line > TeX." I know that you can't then easily transpose the resulting score. All I > can say about that is that I'm sorry, if you want that much flexibility, > then go spend $500 for Finale. Dear Don: many of us were attracted to PMX less by determent from Sibelius and Finale by the stiff fees than by the quality of the PMX-musixtex sets. But I would also make a comment: in the past I had to use quite often editing of the resulting tex-file because certain features were not yet available in pmx. Musixtex gives you an enormous flexibility and allows almost anything; still, the time saving by creating the crude tex file by using PMX is tremendous. Of course once one has started to modify the tex file, it does not make sense to improve the setting by processing via PMX, but one has to debug the tex file directly. It is thus a good idea to debug throroughly before starting editing the tex file. By the way, transposition is still possible on the musixtex level. In the last year, I can not remember to have had to use post-editing; the reason is that all my wishes in regard of features were incorporated into PMX, and they were quite numerous. Thank you for improving PMX in the last years to do almost anything.
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