H Boothroyd wrote:
>
> I would be grateful for brief comment on whether MusiXTeX, or some variant
> of it, can be used or adapted for use with OzTeX under Mac OS9.
>
> And if it can't I would be grateful for a pointer to alternatives.
>
other people with knowledge of MusiXTeX and macinthosh will undoubtfully
answer this question positively and in depth. As for alternatives I
think you should consider another text based music typesetting utility
MUP (http://www.arkkra.com) which I have been using for some time
besides MusiXTeX and friends. Opposite to MusiXTeX it is not free. But
the shareware fee $29 IMHO is more than modest the quality of the
program, its typesetting results and the generous support from the MUP
developers taken into account. My own publically available scores
typeset with MUP include compositions by Mogens Pedersøn, Michael
Praetorius, Th. Ravenscroft and S. de Vivanco. The scores and the source
files are all available at the GMD archive.
A port of MUP for macintosh is available from:
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/agkastens/wir/mthies/maine.htm#MacMup
Unfortunately there don't seem to be macintosh binaries available for
the GNU music typesetting system lilypond
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
Regards
--
Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
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