[TeX-music] musixtex installation under SuSE Linux 9.3
Hello Christian, Bodo, Simon, Thank you for your quick and helpful reply. Strangely, on my former (SuSE!) system, I would use the commands musixtex, musixflx, musixtex (it still works! - my former installation is still alive but now in my daughter's hands). I can't remember why that had been arranged in that way, it is too long ago. Anyway, now pmx and musixtex (T112) are installed and work smoothly (with the command sequence pmxab, tex, musixflx, tex)! I tested some older codings of mine, and the outcome was nice. (I did not try M-Tx so far.) This being the main point, I thought, however, I should still mention the following. The *.pmx-examples in the distribution are barsant.pmx, dyntest.pmx, most.pmx, and mwalmnd.pmx. Apart from most.pmx, these examples make use of the file `musixps' which is part of what is referred to in "2.5 MusiXTeX type 1 fonts" of your HOWTO. Without it, it is impossible to enjoy the examples: After the processing command for the .tex-file (successfully produced by pmxab) you get ! I can't find file `musixps'. l.9 \input musixps As it is nice to have musixps anyway, the normal reaction would simply be to install it. As long as I may follow your own words, there is no problem. But then your HOWTO says "Then follow the instructions from point 3 of section '3. INSTALLATION' of the accompanying file README". These read as follows: 3) Copy the map file ./dvips/musix.map to the appropriate directory, such as $TEXMF/dvips/config [I can copy the file (/dvips/)musix.map into /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/, and I think this is intended although it is not in the "private path". But after that,one needs more knowledge (or confidence) than I have to digest the next steps:] 4) Add a line p +musix.map to a suitable config.xxx file or, in a tetex-based distribution, add musix.map to the list of map files for Type1 fonts with Metafont equivalents in the updmap script, which should then be executed by doing "./updmap". [Which is "a suitable config.xxx file"? Don't know. - Well, never mind, I think I have a tetex-based distribution, so I find the executable file updmap in /usr/bin, edit its script - and feel embarrassed as I don't find any "list of map files for Type1 fonts with Metafont equivalents in the updmap script" in this long and complicated text. That's it. I am sure these instructions are clear enough for people who know more than me... Considering the remaining steps, I think I'd know what to do in 5) and 7), but in 6) again, which is "the config file"?] 5) Copy the map file ./dvipdfm/musix.map to the appropriate directory, such as $TEXMF/dvipdfm/config 6) Add a line f musix.map to the config file. 7) Do mktexlsr or texhash or whatever is necessary on your system to re-generate the TeX database. Therefore, being unable to follow these instructions, I don't have musixps at my disposal, and as a consequence, cannot process the .pmx-examples either. I am sure you can tell me what I need to know (again!). But I think it is also important to realize where innocent readers find instructions difficult. That's why I am writing this lengthy email! Thank you again for all your patience, Hartmut -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] pmx installation under SuSE Linux 9.3
Hello Hartmut, the MusiXTeX Debian package has a program /usr/bin/musixtex. These are the first comment lines of the script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w [...] Maybe the SuSE package has a similar script. You can try to use the script from the SuSE MusiXTeX package. I think there is no need to uninstall the older version of MusixTeX at all. All you have to do is to put your .tex-stuff into your local TEXMF-tree, as you already did, and to put the executables at /usr/local/bin. Make sure they are executable! The commands ls -l /usr/local/bin/musixflx ls -l /usr/local/bin/pmxab ls -l /usr/local/bin/scor2prt should give an output beginning with -rwxr-xr-x Before you can use musixtex, you will also have to execute texhash as root! Without this, tex doesn't find any new file and the new version is just ignored. Best regards, Simon ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] pmx installation under SuSE Linux 9.3
Am 2005.12.11 10:04 schrieb(en) Christian Mondrup: There is no such executable 'musixtex' coming with the MusiXTeX distribution. Compiling a musixtex source file, say my_music.tex, is done as a series of tex- and musixflx runs Hello Hartmut, the MusiXTeX Debian package has a program /usr/bin/musixtex. These are the first comment lines of the script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # This musixtex Perl script automates the three-pass TeX compilation # of a MusiXTeX music score file. It basically runs the command: # $ tex filename.tex ; musixflx filename ; tex filename.tex # # Adapted by Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for Debian GNU/Linux # from the DOS batch file in the MusiXTeX User Manual by MusiXTeX's authors. # Improvements copyright 2003, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. Maybe the SuSE package has a similar script. You can try to use the script from the SuSE MusiXTeX package. If you have difficulties with the manual installation of MusiXTeX and related software and would prefer to install pre-packaged programs, you might consider switching your Linux distribution. Debian has MusiXTeX stable and testing: T.112 PMX stable: 2.504 testing: 2.507 M-Tx stable: 0.55c testing: 0.60 The Debian maintainers are fairly quick in packaging new upstream versions. Bodo ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [TeX-music] pmx installation under SuSE Linux 9.3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for helping me. Now pmx works - but musixtex does not! SuSE has version T99 in the distribution of this year, too old. I tried to upgrade it to version T101. I also created a private path for the musixtex files as proposed in Christian's HOWTO. But when I tried the command "musixtex" (with some older coding), I could see that version T99 was still used, and I got the error message that "pmx" was not found. After that I deinstalled version T99 (using YAST) and tried to install T112. I thought I had carefully executed the instructions of Christian's HOWTO, but the command "musixtex" was then answered by bash: musixtex: command not found There used to be the path /usr/bin/musixtex, but now there isn't. I find musixflx, pmxab, and scor2prt in /usr/local/bin/, but no "musixtex". Which is my mistake? - Thank you again, Hartmut There is no such executable 'musixtex' coming with the MusiXTeX distribution. Compiling a musixtex source file, say my_music.tex, is done as a series of tex- and musixflx runs tex my_music musixflx my_music tex my_music which produces the dvi file my_music.dvi ready for inspection with xdvi I encourage you to study the comprehensive PMX tutorial available in Italian, German, French and English versions from the PMX section of the Icking Archive software page. This tutorial explains compiling procedures in detail. -- Christian Mondrup, Sheet Music Editor Werner Icking Music Archive http://icking-music-archive.org/ ___ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
