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NAME

       prepmx - preprocessor for PMX, easy music typesetting program

SYNOPSIS

       prepmx [options] jobname [outdir/] [stylefile]

DESCRIPTION

       M-Tx  is  an easy to use preprocessor language for the PMX music typesetting program, aimed at people who
       are not experts.  For an easy example, have a look at the following example:

         c2+       e4    g   | b4d-  c1 d c2        |
         c8 g+ e g c- g+ e g | d g f g    c- g+ e g |

       For syntax reference, please look at the M-Tx manual written by Dirk Laurie,  the  creator  of  the  M-Tx
       language and the author of prepmx, its command line utility.

       prepmx  processes the file jobname.mtx to generate jobname.pmx.  You can then process this file using the
       `pmx' command.  PMX is a preprocessor for MusiXTeX.

       outdir/ is the directory where `pmx' will put the final .tex  file.  Note  that  the  trailing  slash  is
       mandatory.  You  can  provide  a  stylefile  for M-Tx. If omitted, the file `mtxstyle.txt' in the current
       directory is used, if there is one.

OPTIONS

       Options can also be specified in a `Options:' line in the  preamble,  which  takes  precedence  over  the
       command line.

       -b     never unbeam eighth notes and shorter

       -c     main music lines only - ignore chords

       -D     enable debug mode

       -f     use tonic sol-fa note names

       -i     ignore errors

       -m     music only - ignore lyrics

       -n     indent first system and print default instrument names

       -t     ignore uptext lines

       -u     uptext synchronizes with notes only, not rests

       -v     verbose progress report

       -w     enable pedantic warnings

       -n     select specified case of multiple score

EXIT STATUS

       If  no  error  was  found,  prepmx exits with return code 0.  In case of an error, the line number of the
       processed line is returned. This may not always be the line containing the actual error. A return  status
       of 10000 means that the input file was empty or could not be opened.

SEE ALSO

       M-Tx User's Guide (mtx060.pdf)
       pmx(1), musixtex(1)

AUTHORS

       prepmx  was  written  by  Dirk  Laurie  <dpl@sun.ac.za>.   This  manual page was written by Roland Stigge
       <stigge@antcom.de>  for  the  Debian  project.  It  was   revised   and   extended   by   Nis   Martensen
       <nis.martensen@web.de>, mostly by copying text from Dirk Laurie's M-Tx User's Guide.