Am 01.01.2013 05:45, schrieb Don Simons: > After Dirk's ringing endorsement, I decided to try out TeXLive in Windoze > XT.
Under Win, usually MikTeX is recommended (which also has pmx & m-tx as packages). Its package manager is quite intuitive for win users :-) - and the installation is very easy since decades. > It did appear to install OK, although it took 3 hours, evidently > downloading all of the thousands of individual files one at a time > (uncompressed?), limited by a 5 Mbps connection. When you do the /full/ installation, you get some gigabyte of packages, no matter if compressed or uncompressed, as the tug installation media changed from several CDs to a DVD (there are several tex engines, different macro pakages, helper programs and thousands of packages, fonts etc. - but then you could even set klingon music with additional texts in runes and the japanese and arabic translations ;-) ). Isn't there a "basic" or "minimal" installation? > I did confirm that > pmxab.exe and pmx2pdf.exe were in a bin directory that had been put in the > path. Opened a command window, went to a folder containing test.pmx, and > typed pmx2pdf test. It ran pmxab OK, created test.tex, started up etex, > found musixtex.tex in folder > c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/generic/musixtex, then when it came to > "\input pmx", stopped with the message > > ! I can't find file 'pmx' > > By searching, I found that pmx.tex had been put into > c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pmx > This doesn't seem like a place where tex files should go no matter whose > conventions you're following. This is definitely a bug. > I'm writing this email after about 30 minutes > of fruitless searching for instructions about how to find out what folders > are being searched, tell the system where the file is if its folder is not > in the list, and then "update the filename database" (all things I know how > to do in MiKTeX). > > If anyone cares to tell me how to do that in TeXLive, I'd appreciate it, and > perhaps comment on why pmx.tex is in that particular folder. Meanwhile I'll > probably continue searching and experimenting. But this is not my idea of a > dream. Unfortunately I have texlive only installed via debian packages, and there some packages (as pmx and m-tx) are separately handled by the debian package management. On tex-level, you can always type texhash in a command windows, that re-creates the package data base. But there must also be a command option of tlmgr or a button in tlmgr --gui (or how you get the gui of the texlive manager - should also have an entry in the start menu). I would also first of all do a full update of any outdated package via the tlmgr, at least from miktex I know that bugfixes of a single latex package take some time to get into the windows installers. > On a related note, and before I did the above test, I was explaining to a > Mac-head friend about the supposedly new and seamless way that people can > get tex, musixtex, and pmx from online archives. To my surprise he wanted to > test it out, and did a default install of MacTeX on the spot. After it > finished (in about 15 minutes), I had him search his hard drive for pmx.tex > and musixtex.tex, and he didn't find either one. Did he also install the corresponding texlive packages? An installation of full texlive in 15 minutes would be increadibel fast - I suppose he just installed the basic tex engine with the most basic latex packages. That is enough for the classic "hello world" example of a latex document (but for extra features like music notation you will need extra packages). I hope you get the installation working soon. Cheers, Simon ------------------------------- 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
