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MUSIXTEX(1) MUSIXTEX(1)

musixtex - processes MusiXTeX files, using pre-processors prepmx, pmxab and autosp as necessary, and then deletes intermediate and log files (unless -i is used)

[ texlua ] musixtex[.lua] { option | jobname [ .mtx | .pmx | .aspc | .tex | .ltx ] } ...

etex(1)
(first pass)
musixflx(1)
(second pass)
etex(1)
(third pass)
dvips(1)
(dvi to Postscript)
ps2pdf(1)
(Postscript to Portable Document Format)

If a jobname argument has a .pmx extension, the file is first preprocessed using pmxab(1) and the resulting .tex file is processed as above.

If a jobname argument has a .mtx extension, the file is first preprocessed using prepmx(1) and the resulting .pmx file is processed as above.

If a jobname argument has a .ltx extension, the file is processed using latex(1) (or pdflatex(1)) in place of etex.

If a jobname argument has a .aspc extension, the file is first preprocessed using autosp(1) and the resulting .tex or .ltx file is processed as above.

If a jobname argument has none of these extensions, the script will look for a file jobname.mtx or jobname.pmx or jobname.aspc or jobname.tex or jobname.ltx, in that order, and process it as above.

output program name and version number, and quit
output usage summary and quit
assume LaTeX source; implied if the file has .ltx extension
change the TeX processor to pdfetex(1) or pdflatex(1) (and doesn't run a dvi processor)
preprocess pmx file using pmxchords(1)
don't generate a .ps file and change the dvi processor to dvipdfm(1)
use dvix as the dvi processor; e.g., -D "dvipdfm -m 0.9". Use -d before -D to suppress .ps generation.
use ps2pdf as the Postscript processor; e.g., -P "ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4"
use fmt as the TeX processor; e.g., -F "luatex --output-format=dvi"
stop processing at the pmx file
use mtxx as the mtx preprocessor; e.g., -M "prepmx -i".
use aspcx as the aspc preprocessor; e.g., -A "autosp -l".
stop processing at the tex/mid files
stop processing at the dvi file
stop processing at the ps file
retain intermediate and log files
-1
one-pass [pdf][la]tex processing; i.e., without calling musixflx
call makeindex(1) to update index database
restore default processing
quiet mode (only musixtex's own messages); other messages are diverted to a temporary file. If an error occurs at the TeX stage, processing halts immediately and the tail of the log file is sent to stderr. Version information is copied from the temporary file to the log file.

Note that four TeX engines are available via the -l and -p options:


etex default

latex -l
pdfetex -p
pdflatex -l -p

-F "luatex --output-format=dvi"
-F "lualatex --output-format=dvi"
-F "luatex" -p
-F "lualatex" -p

autosp(1), etex(1), latex(1), pdfetex(1), pdflatex(1), makeindex(1), musixflx(1), dvipdfm(1), dvips(1), pmxab(1), pmxchords(1) prepmx(1), ps2pdf(1) and musixdoc.pdf.

This manual page was written by Bob Tennent <rdt@cs.queensu.ca>.

2018-07-27 musixtex version 0.21