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.TH prepmx 1 "01 September 2005" "M-Tx Version 0.60" "prepmx Manual Page"
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prepmx \- preprocessor for PMX, easy music typesetting program
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is an easy to use preprocessor language for the
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music typesetting program, aimed at people who are not experts. For an
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easy example, have a look at the following example:
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c2+ e4 g | b4d- c1 d c2 |
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c8 g+ e g c- g+ e g | d g f g c- g+ e g |
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For syntax reference, please look at the M-Tx manual written by Dirk
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Laurie, the creator of the M-Tx language and the author of prepmx, its
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You can then process this file using the `pmx' command.
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is a preprocessor for MusiXTeX.
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is the directory where `pmx' will put the final .tex file. Note that the
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trailing slash is mandatory. You can provide a
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for M-Tx. If omitted, the file `mtxstyle.txt' in the current
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directory is used, if there is one.
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Options can also be specified in a `Options:' line in the preamble,
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which takes precedence over the command line.
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never unbeam eighth notes and shorter
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main music lines only \- ignore chords
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use tonic sol\-fa note names
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music only \- ignore lyrics
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indent first system and print default instrument names
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uptext synchronizes with notes only, not rests
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verbose progress report
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enable pedantic warnings
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select specified case of multiple score
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If no error was found,
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exits with return code 0. In case of an error, the line number of the
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processed line is returned. This may not always be the line containing
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the actual error. A return status of 10000 means that the input file was
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empty or could not be opened.
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User's Guide (mtx060.pdf)
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prepmx was written by Dirk Laurie <dpl@sun.ac.za>.
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This manual page was written by Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> for the Debian
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project. It was revised and extended by Nis Martensen
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<nis.martensen@web.de>, mostly by copying text from Dirk Laurie's M-Tx