MusiXTeX and Related Software

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Bob Tennent has released MusiXTeX-1.28. This provides new commands for repeats within a bar, optionally forced to be at the end of a system; documentation is provided in the archive.
Bugfix: corrected definition of \C@Inter for \nblines < 4.
TeXLive 2018 has been released. This can be installed in parallel with one or more older releases. The 2018 release provides musixtex (1.27), pmx (2.84), M-Tx (0.63) and autosp (2018-02-23) for over 20 platforms, including MacOSX.
Bob Tennent has released version 2018-02-23 of the autosp preprocessor. Bugfixes: avoid terminating on \endvolta...; correct version output.
Don Simons has released PMX version 2.84. This package is available in the MiKTeX update wizard. An easy-to-install package with a zipped texmf tree, OSX and Windows executables and a tar.gz file which can be processed on any Unix-like system with basic GNU tools and a suitable C compiler is available here and at CTAN. Consult pmx-install.pdf for installation instructions.
Changes since 2.83:
- Bug fix: dots in chordal seconds.
- Bug fix: Initialize ihornb for non-beamed, down xtup.
- Bug fix when using "AT" with 2-note x3c rD.
Dirk Laurie has released M-Tx version 0.63. It is also available from Github.
Main changes:
1. `Space` can put in optional extra space between title block and first stave.
2. Multibar rest may appear after comment lines in its paragraph. (Thanks to Christian Mondrup for finding the bug.)
3. Spurious error message when using `][` corrected. (Thanks to Christian Mondrup for finding the bug.)
4. Pickup consisting of rests allowed with multibar rest. (Feature requested by Christian Mondrup.)
5. Also recognizes `F` as doubling duration in multiplet. (Feature requested by Christian Mondrup.)
6. No longer adds an undesired duration to rests in a multiplet. (Thanks to Christian Mondrup for finding the bug.)
This archive includes a zipped texmf tree, OSX and Windows executables and a tar.gz file which can be processed on any Unix-like system with basic GNU tools and either gcc or fpc. Consult mtx-install.pdf for installation instructions.
Dieter Glötzel has released an updated version of his MusicXML-to-PMX converter (currently for Windows and Linux only). Changes:
- There are new command line fields: options and maxbar. options may contain one or several of the nine letters xpdvalstg in arbitrary sequence in upper or lower case and without spaces. maxbar is a limit on the number of bars to be processed. When maxbar = 0 then all bars will be processed.
- With option = L, Lyrics can be extracted and stored in a separate file: songtext.txt.
- Automatic detection of pickup.
- Incomplete measures or voices are automatically filled with blind rests.
Hiroaki Morimoto has released version 0.54 of the musixpss package (described in musixdoc.pdf as "Type M Postscript slurs"). This new version conforms to the new specifications of dvipdfm(x) and pdfTeX since TeX Live 2016 concerning MetaPost-generated EPS files (*.mps). The appearances of generated slurs are the same. In case you have a too-old version of MetaPost that does not support outputtemplate, use version 0.53.

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