On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 06:28:47PM +0200, Bob Tennent wrote: > >|Suggestion: keep the name prepmx but write a brand-new script mtx2pdf > >|for the whole process so that no one actually ever needs to invoke prepmx > >|pmxab or musixflex directly. In Lua, of course. I may even do it myself. > > Lua scripts are already written and in use. Check out > > musixtex/scripts/musixtex/musixtex.lua > pmx/scripts/pmx/pmx.lua > mtx/scripts/mtx/mtx.lua > > in > > http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/musixtex/musixtex-texmf.zip > http://mirrors.ctan.org/support/pmx/pmx-texmf.zip > http://mirrors.ctan.org/support/mtx/mtx-texmf.zip > > respectively. I hesitate to change their names now but will do so if > there's general agreement. They're typically used via symbolic links > (on Unix-like systems) or .bat wrapper scripts on Windows, which can of > course be named anything a user desires.
As long as they are .lua, the arguments in my post don't apply. But there _is_ something self-explanatory about the name 'mtx2pdf' which the name 'mtx', even if it is 'mtx.bat', does not convey. Dirk ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
