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This is M-Tx (Music-from-TeXt), version 0.60d. M-Tx is a preprocessor
for PMX that facilitates inputting lyrics. It builds the PMX input file
based on a language very similar to PMX. M-Tx includes most of PMX's
functionality, but it also permits in-line PMX commands to give access
to virtually all of PMX.
The author of M-Tx is Dirk Laurie (dpl@sun.ac.za).
This package consists of
(i) mtx-texmf.zip, which contains macros, documentation, and a wrapper script
mtx.lua.
(ii) mtx-0.60d.tar.gz, which contains the Pascal source code for prepmx,
the preprocessor
(iii) directories Windows and OSX, which contain pre-compiled
executables for those platforms
(iv) an mtx-install document, which is a more detailed version of the
following:
To install (on TDS-compliant TeX systems):
+ unzip mtx-texmf.zip at the root of a texmf tree and, if necessary,
update the filename database; e.g., texhash texmf. Documentation for
M-Tx is installed under doc/generic/tmx. You must use an unzipping
program that converts text files to the text-file format of your
platform, such as "unzip -a ... " on Linux.
+ *either* copy the pre-compiled executables appropriate for your
platform (Windows, OSX-Intel) to a folder on the executable PATH
+ *or* install fpc, the Free Pascal compiler (if not already
installed), unpack the mtx tarball (anywhere), move to the resulting
mtx-0.60d directory, change the PREFIX line of the Makefile to
PREFIX = $HOME
if a "private" installation is desired, and do
make
make install (as root, if necessary)
+ on Windows: copy the file scripts\mtx\Windows\mtx.bat to a folder on the
executable PATH
+ on any Unix-like system: install a symbolic link mtx in any
directory on the executable PATH to scripts/mtx/mtx.lua
Documentation for M-Tx is installed under
doc/generic/mtx
Many examples of M-Tx and MusiXTeX typesetting may be found at the Werner
Icking Music Archive at
http://icking-music-archive.org/
Support for users of MusiXTeX and related software may be obtained via
the MusiXTeX mail list at
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
M-Tx may be freely copied, duplicated and used in conformance to the
GNU General Public License (Version 2, 1991, see included file gpl.txt).
This CTAN distribution is maintained by Bob Tennent (rdt@cs.queensu.ca).
July 18th, 2011