[Tex-music] Jazz typesetting is here
With lots of help from Bob Tennent, I've developed a package of TeX macros and fonts that enable MusiXTeX to produce scores that look like a jazz fake book. Once installed, if you input musixjaz.tex into your MusiXTeX source file, most text and symbols will automagically appear in a special font, and you'll easily be able to add chord symbols in one of 3 selectable sizes using a convenient set of macros. (One thing I haven't done, and will leave to the real TeXperts, is to make the noteheads, stems, flags, and beams appear in the jazz font). Here's a direct link to an example: http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixjazz/doc/Sis6teensj.pdf All you need is in one of the two zip's at http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixjazz/ To install, you can either manually install the files in the tex, type1, tfm, map and doc directories (from musixjazz.zip) into a personal or local texmf tree as described here http://icking-music-archive.org/software/htdocs/Beyond_Basics.html#SECTION00 033000 , or just unzip musixjazz.tds.zip at the root of a personal or local texmf tree. In either case, after refreshing the file-name database, you must enable the font-map file musixjazz.map as described further down in the above link. Once installed, usage is explained in detail in musixjazzdoc.pdf in the doc folder. --Don Simons --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Jazz typesetting
I give up -Original Message- From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Don Simons Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 10:21 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Jazz typesetting Typo alert: It should read Add the following two lines to psfonts.map: JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular.pfb Jazz-Regular Jazz- Regular Jazz-Regular.pfb and let's hope the line break comes in the right place this time around. I'm sure TeX wouldn't be very forgiving if it didn't. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Jazz typesetting
In light of the three positive responses I received, I do plan to write up some instructions and make the necessary TeX macros available. But there are major copyright questions about the fonts I used. So I'll try to explain below what I did to get them installed, but I won't be able to provide the font files themselves...I'll just have to ask interested folks to go through the steps I did to find the font definition files, generate the files that are needed by TeX, and install them in a TeX setup. There are two fonts you'll need, JazzText-Regular and Jazz-Regular. You can google to find the .ttf files. If you download and install fontforge, you can then use that to generate .pfb and .tfm files. I didn't need to change any of the defaults, but see the note below. Put those files into the right places in your TeX setup. Add the following lines to psfonts.map: JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular.pfb Jazz-Regular Jazz-Regular Jazz-Regular.pfb (You can find the map file by opening a command window and typing kpsewhich psfonts.map. There are sexier ways to modify the map file which are supposed to be better if you upgrade your TeX installation, but they didn't work for me.) Of course, as always, you need to update the TeX filename database. Please let me know privately if you try this and have any problems. Meanwhile I'll be working on the documentation. I think there is a limitation with making the files as I just described...I don't think any postscript or pdf files containing the fonts will work on any system that doesn't have the fonts installed. If that's a problem for you, again please contact me privately. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 5:09 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Jazz typesetting I have recently assembled macros and--with lots of help from Bob Tennent-- fonts, that let me do a pretty decent job of emulating the appearance of a jazz fake book. Here's an example: http://www.pchpublish.com/bbbxv/newdonbook.pdf which incidentally contains the six jazz tunes I've written over the years. I used PMX for this (of course) but there are no changes to PMX, rather, they're all in the form of new TeX macros mainly to define the fonts and do the chord symbols. I have not invested the effort of posting the new tex files, documenting how to use them, or modifying PMX to make it easier to use them. I'd certainly be willing to do the first two and get to work on the 3rd if I knew for sure there was anyone else out there who would use them. So if you are out there, post something on this list to let me know. --Don Simons --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Jazz typesetting
Typo alert: It should read Add the following two lines to psfonts.map: JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular.pfb Jazz-Regular Jazz-Regular Jazz-Regular.pfb and let's hope the line break comes in the right place this time around. I'm sure TeX wouldn't be very forgiving if it didn't. -Original Message- From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Don Simons Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 8:50 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Re: [Tex-music] Jazz typesetting In light of the three positive responses I received, I do plan to write up some instructions and make the necessary TeX macros available. But there are major copyright questions about the fonts I used. So I'll try to explain below what I did to get them installed, but I won't be able to provide the font files themselves...I'll just have to ask interested folks to go through the steps I did to find the font definition files, generate the files that are needed by TeX, and install them in a TeX setup. There are two fonts you'll need, JazzText-Regular and Jazz-Regular. You can google to find the .ttf files. If you download and install fontforge, you can then use that to generate .pfb and .tfm files. I didn't need to change any of the defaults, but see the note below. Put those files into the right places in your TeX setup. Add the following lines to psfonts.map: JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular JazzText-Regular.pfb Jazz-Regular Jazz- Regular Jazz-Regular.pfb (You can find the map file by opening a command window and typing kpsewhich psfonts.map. There are sexier ways to modify the map file which are supposed to be better if you upgrade your TeX installation, but they didn't work for me.) Of course, as always, you need to update the TeX filename database. Please let me know privately if you try this and have any problems. Meanwhile I'll be working on the documentation. I think there is a limitation with making the files as I just described...I don't think any postscript or pdf files containing the fonts will work on any system that doesn't have the fonts installed. If that's a problem for you, again please contact me privately. --Don Simons -Original Message- From: Don Simons [mailto:dsim...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 5:09 PM To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' Subject: Jazz typesetting I have recently assembled macros and--with lots of help from Bob Tennent-- fonts, that let me do a pretty decent job of emulating the appearance of a jazz fake book. Here's an example: http://www.pchpublish.com/bbbxv/newdonbook.pdf which incidentally contains the six jazz tunes I've written over the years. I used PMX for this (of course) but there are no changes to PMX, rather, they're all in the form of new TeX macros mainly to define the fonts and do the chord symbols. I have not invested the effort of posting the new tex files, documenting how to use them, or modifying PMX to make it easier to use them. I'd certainly be willing to do the first two and get to work on the 3rd if I knew for sure there was anyone else out there who would use them. So if you are out there, post something on this list to let me know. --Don Simons --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Jazz typesetting
My congratulations too. I would like to use this font with the musixcrd package I wrote some years ago and which I dreamed of would use the Real Book font too. This seems now to bee manageable for me. I'm looking forward. Have a nice time, Robert Hennig Am 08.03.2015 um 02:08 schrieb Don Simons: I have recently assembled macros and--with lots of help from Bob Tennent--fonts, that let me do a pretty decent job of emulating the appearance of a jazz fake book. Here's an example: http://www.pchpublish.com/bbbxv/newdonbook.pdf which incidentally contains the six jazz tunes I've written over the years. I used PMX for this (of course) but there are no changes to PMX, rather, they're all in the form of new TeX macros mainly to define the fonts and do the chord symbols. I have not invested the effort of posting the new tex files, documenting how to use them, or modifying PMX to make it easier to use them. I'd certainly be willing to do the first two and get to work on the 3rd if I knew for sure there was anyone else out there who would use them. So if you are out there, post something on this list to let me know. --Don Simons --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Jazz typesetting
Congratulations for this absolutely beautiful work!!! For sure, I'm very interested in having at least the sources and hopefully some documentation. Olivier --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
