> Dmytro O. Redchuk
>
> But now I really would like to find something which has a slightly more
> "user friendly" syntax (and more readable, too). Okay, I would like to
> have a system, which:
>
> 1. Can produce TeX code in a mentioned sense (yes, MusixTeX *is* a
> TeX code itself).
PMX
> 2. Allow type scores with multiple instruments and multiple (two,
> three..) voices per instrument; allows add lyrics and dynamically
> add/change/remove lyrics (lyrics positioning).
PMX. Like MusiXTeX, it allows multiple staves per instrument, but yes, only
two lines per staff. However, more notes can be added to any staff with
inline TeX in the PMX input file.
> 3. Can produce MIDI output ("proof-listening" is enough).
PMX
> 4. Have a easier syntax than MusixTeX (allowing to type quicker --
> since I have too few time for score typing, unfortunately).
PMX
> 5. Oh, yes -- should be free and multi-platform (at least Win* and
> *NIX) -- because I like use MikTeX, too.
PMX
This sounds almost like an advertisement for PMX. I assume you understand
that PMX is a preprocessor for MusiXTeX, i.e., it outputs a TeX input file.
Naturally it does have its limitations, and it cannot very well produce
integrated text and music on it's own. But it can certainly produce chamber
music scores, and with M-Tx as a preprocessor you can include lyrics (and
not worry about spacing.) You sound like you have enough experience to
effectively use PMX as a TeX code generator, then combine it into your LaTeX
files for books.
2. M-Tx ... Its manual says that PMX offers musixlyr -- is that correct
or I just misunderstood something?
I think you're misunderstanding something. PMX doesn't do lyrics at all,
unless you want to use gobs of in-line TeX. That's basically what M-Tx does,
with MusiXlyr's help. M-Tx produces a PMX input file containing in-line TeX
commands to emplace the lyrics. Musixlyr, like any other TeX add-in, must be
activated by a TeX \input command, and that's one of the commands that M-Tx
puts up front in the PMX file it outputs. The \input command is just another
in-line TeX command as far as PMX is concerned.
> 3. PMX (and M-Tx?) restricts to two voices per instrument (three and
> more with "hard-spaced extra instrument"?)
Are you referring to a trick where one staff is made to lay on top of
another? I think that would be possible, if its really necessary, again
using in-line TeX commands in the PMX input file.
--Don Simons
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