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"

       -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>.

musixtex version 0.23                              2020-05-21                                        MUSIXTEX(1)