Sebastian-
>From what you've written, it sounds like this is the problem: MusiXTeX is a 3-pass system. Once you have a good tex file (which PMX produces J) you need to run etex, then musixflx, the etex again on the good tex file. That's probably all you need to get going. But I can't resist a few more remarks: 1. PMX absolutely doesn't "run a script which does the texing." What PMX does is produce a musixtex file, which then needs to be processed exactly the same as if you had created the musixtex file from scratch. 2. M-Tx is a preprocessor for PMX. In other words, it produces a pmx file. Once you run get such a file, it has to be processed the same as if you had produced the pmx file by hand, from scratch. 3. Starting with Version 2.6 or so, PMX produces a musixtex file which requires musixtex 1.15. In addition, the tex file so produced requires that you use etex rather than just tex to do the tex processing. 4. LaTeX has nothing to do with any of this. LaTeX is a special set of macros designed to supposedly make TeX easier to use to produce nice text documents. There is absolutely no requirement to use LaTeX together with MusiXTeX; in fact, it just complicates matters to the extent that you should NEVER use them together unless you have a REALLY good reason AND are a pretty advanced user already. --Don Simons From: tex-music-boun...@tug.org [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Canagaratna Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 5:00 PM To: tex-music@tug.org Subject: [Tex-music] No room for new \dimen Hi Cornelius: Further to my earlier comment, I have been following the exchange between Don and Philip. In the Debian distribution I just run mtx file, and then run pmx file. I think pmx runs a a script which does the texing. So the question of my using tex or etex does not arise. I did use etex on the tex file produced by pmx and it ran without any error. As I said earlier, all the notes on a line are moved to the left and scrunched together. Phillip had suggested that romoving the .mx1 and .mx2 files solved his problem. I only found a .mx1 and I removed it, but the problem of a poor .dvi file still remains. This may have something to do with the .tex file produced by pmx. I ran tex on the example .tex files in the musixtex package and they gave no problem either compiling or in the dvi file. Sebastian
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