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



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