Short: A Preprocessor for MusicTeX Author: Don Simons (dsimons@logicon.com) Uploader: Reinhard Katzmann (suamor student uni-tuebingen de) Architecture: m68k-amigaos INTRODUCTION PMTeX will generate MusicTeX code for multi-staff scores with up to five staves (or voices) per system. Once it makes a .tex file for you, you will probably want or need to change a few things manually. This is because (a) PMTeX only has a small subset of the capabilities of MusicTeX, and (b) PMTeX is not perfect. But it can save a LOT of time with the grunge work involved in setting up notes...enotes groupings, defining beams, justifying lines, and spreading the entire piece evenly over a specified number of systems. PMTeX can deal with one and only one melody per staff (voice). It won't let you change the time signature or key signature within a piece. TECHNICAL I (the Uploader) have compiled PMTeX with f2c and had to change the src therefore (See src/pmtex.diffs for more information). I've included an "ready to print" dvi-file (examples/music.dvi) with some manual correction to the original file (sample.tex = orig, music.tex=changed), So you can get quickly a first impression. IMPORTANT Of course you need to have TeX installed (I used PasTeX 1.4b) and MusicTeX (avalaible from ftp.gmd.de:music/musictex/musictex-5xx.tar.gz). If you don't have that, throw away this program ;-) (NOT). QUESTIONS If you have any problems with the amiga port, mail to me, general problems with pmtex should be mailed to the original author.