MUSIXTEX(1)

NAME
musixtex - processes MusiXTeX files, using pre-processors prepmx, xml2pmx, pmxab and autosp as necessary, and then deletes intermediate and log files (unless -i is used)

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

DESCRIPTION

If a jobname argument has a .tex extension, the default effect is to process the file using

etex(1)
    (first pass)

musixflx(1)
    (second pass)

etex(1)
    (third pass)

dvips(1)
    (dvi to Postscript)

ps2pdf(1)
    (Postscript to Portable Document Format)

normally followed by removal of intermediate and log files.  A log musixtex.log is generated, even if other log files are removed.

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 .xml extension, the file is first preprocessed using xml2pmx(1) and the resulting .pmx 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.xml or jobname.mtx or jobname.pmx or jobname.aspc or jobname.tex or jobname.ltx, in that order, and process it as above.

OPTIONS

-v, -version, --version
    output program name and version number, and quit

-h, -help, --help
    output usage summary and quit

-l  assume LaTeX source; implied if the file has .ltx extension

-p  change the TeX processor to pdfetex(1) or pdflatex(1) (and doesn't run a dvi processor)

-c  preprocess pmx file using pmxchords(1)

-d  don't generate a .ps file and change the dvi processor to dvipdfm(1)

-D dvix
    use dvix as the dvi processor; e.g., -D "dvipdfm -m 0.9". Use -d before -D to suppress .ps generation.

-P ps2pdf
    use ps2pdf as the Postscript processor; e.g., -P "ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4"

-F fmt
    use fmt as the TeX processor; e.g., -F "luatex --output-format=dvi". Another example: it is possible to minimize TeX output by using -F "texfot etex".

-m  stop processing at the pmx file

-M mtxx
    use mtxx as the mtx preprocessor; e.g., -M "prepmx -i".

-X pmxx
    use pmxx as the pmx preprocessor; e.g., -X "./pmxab",

-A aspcx
    use aspcx as the aspc preprocessor; e.g., -A "autosp -l".

-L xmlx
    use xmlx as the xml preprocessor; e.g., -L "./XML2PMX".

-t  stop processing at the tex/mid files

-s  stop processing at the dvi file

-g  stop processing at the ps file

-i  retain intermediate and log files

-1  one-pass [pdf][la]tex processing; i.e., without calling musixflx

-x  call makeindex(1) to update index database

-f  restore default processing

-q  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.

Options affect processing of all succeeding MusiXTeX files unless changed by another option.  Option flags cannot be combined; e.g., use  -l -x  rather than  -lx.
    Note that four TeX engines are available via the -l and -p options:

etex      default
        latex -l
        pdfetex -p
        pdflatex -l -p

If the -F option is used, options -l and -p need to be set if the engine name does not contain "latex" and "pdf" respectively. For example, the above four engines can be replaced by:
      -F "luatex --output-format=dvi"
      -F "lualatex --output-format=dvi"
      -F "luatex" -p
      -F "lualatex" -p

SEE ALSO
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), xml2pmx(1) and musixdoc.pdf.

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bob Tennent <rdt@cs.queensu.ca>. To generate PDF, use groff -man musixtex.1 -T pdf > musixtex.1.pdf.