I'm away from home with a computer that didn't have TeX or PMX, and I wanted to do some typesetting. So I bit the bullet and decided to do the installation. I'm happy to report that it went very smoothly and within an hour I had a test file pdf. Congrats to Bob Tennent for getting all the pieces together to make this work.
Some details: Downloaded and installed MiKTeX with minimal defaults, then from within the MiKTeX package manager selected and installed musixtex and PMX. Realized I didn't have my own batch scripts for running all the component programs, nor did I have ghostview installed. So I browsed the MiKTeX bin folder and came across pmx2pdf.exe which worked like a charm...minor glitch was that one or some of the MusiXTeX fonts had not be installed, but somehow they got installed automagically during the test run. The thing I was typesetting was pretty simple. I didn't check very deeply, but I did request postscript slurs and the resulting PDF did seem to contain them. One slight nuisance during editing is the fact that Acrobat will not allow a new version of a pdf to overwrite the old one when the old one is open. So every time I made a correction or addition to the PMX source I had to manually close the old pdf before re-running pmx2pdf. Since on my home setup I have a batch script that makes a .ps, and I have ghostview, and that allows you to overwrite an open .ps, I suppose a workaround would have been to create a .ps and edit from that. But there is no pmx2ps so I would have had to write a batch script. Also I'm not sure whether the Yap that's included with MiKTeX is for .ps or .dvi, nor whether it will allow overwriting an open file. So until I get home I'll just live with the small nuisance of having to close the pdf before recompiling. --Don Simons ------------------------------- 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
