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This page contains

1. some tips on how to avoid errors or improve efficiency in writing PMX source files (a kind of FAQ list),
2. a collection of simple (and not so simple) PMX "tricks" with which you can accomplish tasks that are not realizable directly, i.e. with generic PMX commands. Often these are simply some TeX macros that access some of the more complicated MusiXTeX commands.

All the tips and tricks were contributed by members of the TeX-music mailing list. The collection is continually updated with such new contributions as will be of general interest to the PMX user community.

Each item in the tricks collection consists of

• the name of the trick,
• a PDF file explaining purpose and usage,
• a PMX source file with a full example.

The usefulness of this collection depends on your contributions. If you know such a "trick" that you feel will be generally useful, please send it to the maintainer of this page: ccnoack@mailaps.org, attaching the abovementioned files.

Tips:

• the R symbol: double bars, repeats etc.

Tricks:

• Octaviation notation                                  pmx example        (contr. C.C.Noack 17 Feb 04)
• Changing the bar numbers in midstream     pmx example        (contr. C.C.Noack  2 Mar 04)

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