[tex-live] prepmx (in m-tx)

[Justin C. Walker]

On Jul 13, 2012, at 15:35 , Bob Tennent wrote:

> 
> I've received the following report:
> 
>> |From pascal.zeihen at education.lu  Fri Jul 13 17:47:22 2012
>> |From: Pascal Zeihen <pascal.zeihen at education.lu>
>> |Subject: [Tex-music] TeXLive 2012
>> |Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:41:19 +0200
>> |To: rdt at cs.queensu.ca
>> |
>> |Hi,
>> |
>> |I have been unable to run prepmx (the m-tx preprocessor) on my Mac under
>> |MacOS X Lion. The included file was identified as a TextEdit file and
>> |didn't do anything when called in the terminal.
>> |
>> |Best regards,
>> |
>> |Pascal
> 
> At CTAN there's what I believe to be a working OS-X binary for prepmx:
> 
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/m-tx/OSX-Intel/prepmx
> 
> but I was under the impression that new binaries were built for all the
> supported platforms from the prepmx sources.

FWIW, I downloaded this from the link above, and it seems to run just fine on 10.7.4 and 10.6.8.

The only minor detail is that the "execute" permissions on the file need to be enabled after download ("chmod +x prepmx").

HTH

Justin

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