On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Klaus Priechenfried wrote:
> I'm new to MusicTex and to this list. I'm running SuSE-Linux 7.0 and
> Latex works well. After the download of the tar file of MusicTex and
I also use SuSE-Linux 7.0. Are you sure that MusicTex is the thing you
want? It has been replaced some years ago by MusixTeX which has many
advantages and has many tools like preprocessors (PMX, M-Tx) which work
very well under Linux.
> unzipping, I don't really know where to transfer all these files. The
> Readme file says, that it depends to my Tex-installation, well, I found
> a directory called /usr/shared/texmf/fonts/pk where I copied the
> *.pk-files, but I don't really know what to do with the rest.
Have a look into the TeX configuration file (usually /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf);
it tells you were TeX expects files to be in. The easiest way is to
load MusixTeX from your SuSE distribution (Yes, it is CONTAINED in SuSE 7.0)
from Yast and everything is done automatically. Or you load it yourself; then
I would recommend a local installation in $HOME/texmf. The .tex and .sty-
files go into $HOME/texmf/tex/generic/musictex (or musixtex), the font
.mf into $HOME/texmf/fonts/source/public/musixtex, the .tfm files into
$HOME/texmf/fonts/tfm and so on. Have a look at the different source-files
in http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music, it gives you an idea how difficult it
is to code music. Look especially at the preprocessors which speed up
coding by a large factor. These you have to load and compile yourself;
they come with a README file that describes exactly how. You can put
the executables of these into /usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin. After everything
is installed, rebuild the TeX data base by running texhash. That is all.
Have fun,
Christof
