pmxab(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

🎀 pmxab(1) ✨ a MusiXTeX preprocessor ✨

🌸 NAME

pmxab is a MusiXTeX preprocessor, aka the pmxab 💖 you need for prettier sheet music.

🧚 SYNOPSIS

pmxab basename[.pmx]

💅 DESCRIPTION

okay so pmxab is a preprocessor for MusiXTeX 🎶 It's usually invoked by a frontend, musixtex(1), so you'll probably meet it through there. To get the full glow-up you need MusiXTeX Version 1.21 or higher, plus TeX itself ✨ The whole goal of PMX is to make scores and parts that look almost professional without melting your brain 🫶 If you want to actually learn how to typeset with PMX, read the PMX Manual, bestie, it's giving everything 📖

When you run pmxab directly, it spits out TeX output that uses the MusiXTeX macro set. Iconic. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO

scor2prt(1), musixtex(1)

🌈 AUTHORS

PMX was written by Don Simons <dsimons@roadrunner.com> 💜 This manual page was written by Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> for the Debian project, and revised by Bob Tennent <rdt@cs.queensu.ca> 🫶

Version 2.8.4 🍓 released 30 August 2022 💖 Thanks for reading, bestie, go make some music! 🎀✨

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