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I need to implement music into a LaTeX document and MusiXTeX is difficult to understand. So I opted to use PMX. I've read the documentation for PMX and I think I've figured out how to write a .pmx file. However, what confuses me is how to actually turn the .pmx into something usable by LaTeX. It says to run pmxab, but it doesn't really provide step by step instructions on how to actually do so. Also, it says:

The preamble ends with a line that contains the path name of the directory to which you
want the files (the .tex file, in particular) to be written when pmxab processes your source
text.

However, do I write the folder that the .tex file is in, or the name of the .tex file?

Edit:

Here is a sample pmx file that I wrote. I would like to know if it is written correctly.

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e4d b8 e fs | g4 fs e | d4d e8 d4 | b2d //

The following .pmx file produces proper output. I don't know enough about PMX input to give you more pointers, however. I have added a clef, and changed the final // to /. This was created with the command line command

 `musixtex <filename>.pmx` 

where <filename> is your .pmx file name, e.g. if your file is foo.pmx then you use musixtex foo.pmx.

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t % clef added here

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e4d b8 e fs | g4 fs e | d4d e8 d4 | b2d /

The directory in which the .tex file will be written is notated by the ./ line at the end of the preamble. If you create a directory mytex inside the directory where the .pmx file is, then you could use ./mytex/ (final / is required), and the .tex file will be written to the mytex directory. This directory must exist beforehand; it will not be created for you.