This is PMX, version 2.6.18 (May 15th, 2012). PMX provides a preprocessor for MusiXTeX. pmxab builds a TeX input file based on a .pmx input file in a much simpler language, making most of the layout decisions by itself. It has most of MusiXTeX's functionality, but it also permits in-line TeX to give access to virtually all of MusiXTeX. For proof-listening, pmxab will make a MIDI file of your score. scor2prt is an auxiliary program that makes parts from a score. pmx2pdf is a wrapper script that runs pmxab, all 3 passes of MusiXTeX, and subsequent conversions to PDF. The author of pmxab and scor2prt is Don Simons (dsimons@roadrunner.com). The author of the pmxccn tutorial is Cornelius C. Noack. This package consists of (i) pmx-texmf.zip, which contains macros, documentation, and the pmx2pdf.lua script (ii) pmx-2.6.18.tar.gz, which contains the source code for pmxab and scor2prt (iii) directories Windows and OSX, which contain pre-compiled pmxab and scor2prt executables for those platforms (iv) pmx-install.{tex,pdf}, which is a more detailed version of the following instructions: To install (on TDS-compliant TeX systems): + unzip pmx-texmf.zip at the root of a texmf tree and, if necessary, update the filename database; e.g., texhash texmf. Documentation for PMX is installed under doc/generic/pmx. + on Windows or OS-X: copy the pre-compiled executables appropriate for your platform to a folder on the executable PATH + on any Unix-like system with gcc and standard development tools installed: unpack the pmx tarball (anywhere), move to the resulting pmx-2.6.18 directory and do ./configure make make install (as root) + on Windows: copy the file scripts\pmx\Windows\pmx2pdf.bat to a folder on the executable PATH + on any Unix-like system: install a symbolic link pmx2pdf in any directory on the executable PATH to scripts/pmx/pmx2pdf.lua In this release of PMX, the original Fortran sources for pmxab and scor2prt have been included but the C files actually used have been obtained from these by the f2c translator. The source files for libf2c, which is needed at link time, are also included. Documentation for PMX is installed under doc/generic/pmx Many examples of PMX 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 PMX may be freely copied, duplicated and used in conformance to the GNU General Public License (see included file COPYING). The libf2c source files are governed by a Notice that allows copying, modification and distribution. This CTAN distribution is maintained by Bob Tennent (rdt@cs.queensu.ca). May 15th, 2012.