On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 4:11:18 PM, you wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>> ... does anyone know where I could find a clean
>> copy? Unfortunately the utility isn't part of MikTeX, and it seems to
>> be very difficult to get hold of these things in DOS/Windows versions
>> on the Web..
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 4:15:42 AM, you wrote:
> The syntzx you gave is correct; I use it all the time.
That's what I was afraid of. Still doesn't work at my end...
> I always use
> filenames that explicitly end in .dvi although I haven't tested whether
> that's essential.
OK, when I
Dear friends,
some time ago, someone on this list sent me the DOS binary of
dviconca.exe along with instructions for use to the following effect:
dviconca -o outputfile infile1 infile2 infile3
I've been trying this without useful results; all I get is DVI files
of size 0 bytes, or an
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at 1:21:32 AM, you wrote:
> Daniel Taupin passed away on August, 26th. He died accidentally
> while climbing in the Alps.
I am deeply saddened by this news. It is much to my loss that I never
met Daniel or corresponded with him beyond a very few e-mails, but al
Dear friends,
(A repost from several weeks ago; apparently nobody responded the last
time):
I've had a question from somebody who used my MusixTeX installation
guide and now has problems processing a file -- please see below for
the exact error messages that he's getting. (I notice, without
Dear friends,
How can I persuade MusixTeX to print a sharp sign instead of the "*"
in the following extract?
\input musixtex
\parindent 1.5 cm
\setname1{\circleit{3}\kern 12pt = G *}%
\startmuflex\startpiece
\NOTes\wh p\en
\endpiece\endmuflex
\bye
(The project is vihuela music transcribed f
On Monday, August 11, 2003 at 11:22:30 AM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> How can I persuade MusixTeX to print a sharp sign instead of the "*"
>> in the following extract?
>> \setname1{\circleit{3}\kern 12pt = G *}%
> How about
> \setname1{\circ
Dear friends,
I've had a question from somebody who used my MusixTeX installation
guide and now has problems processing a file -- please see below for
the exact error messages that he's getting. (I notice, without knowing
whether this may be relevant, that he has installed MikTeX 2.3.,
FYI, FWIW, etc. :)
http://www.mpa.org/notation.pdf
Eva
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On Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 9:59:49 AM, you wrote:
> Is it possible to modify the width of a line?
> The coda is only two bars long, and it doesn't look fine
> when those bars are stretched to fit the whole width of the
> page.
Perhaps the following would work (I haven't tried it): put in
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:34:59 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Acrobat Reader 5.0 & 5.1 doesn't display all horizontal MusiXTeX slurs, means
>\sluru 1p \tslur 1p, where p is an arbitrary pitch value. GhostView &
>Acrobat Reader 4.x display this slur(s) in a correct way. How I have to change
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:53:00 +0100, "Cornelius C. Noack"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hope this hilft.
How appropriate to quote that most typical of Werner's valedictory
statements at this moment -- two days after the second anniversary of
his all-too early passing.
I'm sure I'm not the only one
Hello again,
Having received Rainer Dunker's post and followed up his link to the
list archives, I'm starting to think that this ossia caper is a lot
more trouble than it's worth!
My best bet (read: about the only thing in this whole arcane mess that
I have even half a hope of pulling off) is pro
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:52:49 +0100, Olivier Vogel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For ossia handling, you have to use \stoppiece, increase the number of
>instruments, specify a smaller staff size for the ossia line, insert your
>ossia code after \contpiece. Then you have to restore the preceding
>s
Dear friends,
How would I go about setting (in plain MusixTeX) a an ossia of one or
two bars' length? I can't seem to find anything in the manual about
this...
Thanks in advance
Eva
Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995:
http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/b
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:29:26 +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think this requires less efforts:
>
>\startextract
>\notes\ibbu0L6\roff{\qb0p}%
>\hqsk\islurd1K\qb0{^K}\tslur1L\tbbu0\qb0L\nbbu0%
>\qb0b\qb0d\tqh0g\en
>\endextract
>
This would be perfect if it weren't for the ext
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:05:58 +0100, Jean-Pierre Coulon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As a collector of sheet music, I can say that this way linking two sets
>of double beams with a single beam is a 19th century engraving
>habit. You'd better write two *independent* sets of *three*
>semiquavers, unle
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:32:48 +0100 (CET), TORRI Vincent
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've tried this. It seems to work, but it is awfully programmed...
>First, i use \ibbu (as using \ibbl and \tbb* seems to keep the lowest
>beam). I change the starting pitch of the beam. I put the note at pitch p
Dear friends,
I'm trying to typeset a semiquaver sextuplet figure in two groups of
three notes, with the lower of the two beams interrupted between note
stems three and four.
This is no problem in the case of a straightforward upper or lower
beam, as in the following:
\startextract
\notes\Ibbu0h
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:48:57 + (CET), "I. Oppenheim"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ps2pdf is NOT a separate program; it is just a script
>file that uses ghostscript to convert ps files to pdf.
>This script file is part of the standard ghostscript
>distribution and is available for both Windows a
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:09:34 +0100 (CET), Christof Biebricher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The type K ties and slurs cannot be directly
>pdftexed, you have to convert the ps file into pdf by ps2pdf.
>I believe that you may also use ghostscript for doing that, but
>I always used ps2pdf.
Hmmm. I don
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:09:34 +0100 (CET), Christof Biebricher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 1. When I send a DVI file to my HP Laserjet 2200D printer, the score
>> lands in the output tray stripped of all markings p, pp, ppp etc.
>> (They print out fine in Acrobat Reader after conversion to PDF, b
Dear friends,
Two questions:
1. When I send a DVI file to my HP Laserjet 2200D printer, the score
lands in the output tray stripped of all markings p, pp, ppp etc.
(They print out fine in Acrobat Reader after conversion to PDF, but
then all the ties are missing.) Can anyone suggest a remedy
(pref
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 08:03:27 +0100, Andre Van Ryckeghem
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Andre
>(who did not know Finale was for free.
>
I believe there is a scaled-down variant (with seriously limited
functionality) that one can download for nothing. The full version
still costs a mint, though.
>I b
On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 14:22:13 +0100, Daniel Taupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>It should be especially tested with HUGE tests, in order to check that
>it does not cause errors du to number of registers exhausted.
I don't know if this qualifies as "huge", but I've just re-TeX-ed the
source for the
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 14:03:59 + (CET), "I. Oppenheim"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The biggest problem, though, is that there does not
>seem to exist an introductory tutorial in English,
>providing some simple examples how to work with pmx and
>MusiXTeX.
I agree entirely, and as a matter of fa
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:12:45 +0100, Daniel Taupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Translation:
>
> When editing music scores, there is Finale and Encore.
What, no Sibelius, and no Score?
>Period (there are other which are specific, but they are not free
>softwares).
>
>I replied that there is MusiXT
Cornelius, Robin, Olivier, Arjen, Daniel, Dirk, Christof, Bob,
you guys are wonderful. Thanks so much! Now the only problem I have is
choosing one out of the many different ways of doing what I want to
do... :)
Eva
Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995:
http://icking-musi
Hello all,
Does anyone know whether there exists anywhere a plain-TeX equivalent
of the LaTeX "verbatim" environment? I've finally found a bit of spare
time to start writing up a usage guide for my CG fingering macros
file, and it would be useful to be able to include coding examples.
I don't wan
On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:29:21 +0100 (CET), Christof Biebricher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>However, I found that the missing control sequences were in musixtex.tex.
>I loaded the newest version and BIngo, it worked. You should load
>T.109
>Christof
>
Bingo indeed. Thank you, Christof -- the upgrade
Hello all,
Olivier Vogel has sent me a revision of the code I posted the other
day. From the DVI he also sent me, I can tell that this revision is
exactly what I'm after. The trouble is that, when I process the same
file, all I get for my trouble is a slew of "undefined control
sequence" errors an
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:07:55 +0100, Olivier Vogel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Personally, when I have to draw lines, arrows, and so on, I use the
>powerfull package pstricks. If one use the possibilities offered by the
>nodes, I think it should not be very difficult to get the desired results.
Hello everyone,
Some two years ago, Werner Icking answered a question of mine on MuTeX
about how to indicate barre chord fingering in MusixTeX and provided a
hack (his own word) of the \Ioctfin* macros to create the horizontal
line that's needed for the purpose. Some time later, other readers of
t
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:08:09 -0700, Don Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Since one of the changes fixes a bug in line-spacing equalization, let me
>take the opportunity to put in a plug for this feature, even though it's
>been around for a while. It always bothered me when MusiXTeX made the
>ve
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:53:51 +0530 (IST), Karl-Heinz Herrmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There is a small commandline proram
>jpeg2ps which will do that nicely, the resulting eps being barely larger
>(7-bit save encoding) as the jpg file.
>
>http://www.pdflib.com/jpeg2ps/
>
>jpeg2ps -h -r300 fi
Hello all,
TeX-related if not directly concerned with music: Can anyone suggest a
quick and easy way to convert a BMP, JPG, GIF (or whatever) image to
EPS format? Or is there an (equally quick and easy) way to insert a
BMP, JPG, GIF (or whatever) image in a TeX document (*not* LaTeX!!)
without fi
On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:44:14 +0200, Patrik Nyman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the archive you'll find a file with (among other things) macros
>for guitar fingerings, written by Eva Jaksch. They're great.
Thanks for the compliment, but I should point out that the macros have
been radically rev
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:20:03 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've just finished my first real MusixTeX transcription,
>the first piece from Mauro Giuliani's 32 Pieces for
>Guitar, and I'd be very grateful to anyone who spares the
>time to have a look and send my any comments on the output
>or th
On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:39:42 +0200 ((MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit),
"Cornelius C. Noack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I dont think the whole effort is worth your time: if one wants
>individual instruments extracted from a full score, it is much
>easier to use the pmx preprocessor, which has this
Hello folks,
I've never had occasion to use the chord diagram feature of musixgui
before, but I had a look at it today just out of curiosity. And what
came out is curious indeed, in that every single chord diagram I tried
to create comes out in mirror-image, as it were. If I want a dot on
the fir
On Mon, 13 May 2002 22:23:13 +0200, Jean-Charles
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A4 sized Postscript documents ,send to Lpr using either Ghostview or
>Emacs, ar printed 2cm too high (nearly 1 inch).
DO the documents print correctly at the DVI stage? If so, you may need
to adjust the Page Offset fact
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:42:27 +0200, Mike Chapman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I might
>point out that the how-to does not provide directions for updating an
>existing installation. Although I feel it is fairly obvious how one
>ought to go about it, it is entirely possible that we will still receiv
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:21:14 +0200, Mike Chapman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Regarding my pathetic position: I tried one last thing, and it works.
>Namely, copying the executables and batch file to my working directory
>and executing the batch file does produce the desired results, so at
>least I
Hello all,
Attached is a macro which I found in a TeX manual somewhere on the
Web. It's supposed to create an automatic TOC in plain TeX -- and in
fact it seems to do so, more or less, but throws out the following
error message in the process:
8<--
On Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:25:10 +0200 (CEST), Christof Biebricher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Furthermore, I would urge that somebody USING Windows takes over that
>job. While I installed the system on some computers, I do not use it
>but occasionally.
I might be prevailed upon to volunteer for the
Hello everyone,
I'm still trying to get MusixTeX back up and running under MiKTeX 2.1
on my new machine... and I can't seem to get TeX to find my personal
macro files.
They are in the local texmf tree exactly where they've always been.
I've tried refreshing the file name database in the MiKTeX O
On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 19:32:24 +0200, Christian Mondrup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recommend studying Christof Biebrichers comprehensible documention on
>how to handle MusiXTeX & MiKTeX.
Thank you, but while I agree that his instructions are very
comprehensible, they are also regrettably out of
Hello all,
I'm in the process of reinstalling all my software after upgrading to
a new PC.
Having (re)installed MikTeX 2.1, I see that the "full" installation
option automatically installs MusixTeX T.99, which is in one of the
.cab files in the download package.
Two questions:
One: I have a Zi
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:27:41 +0200, Rainer Dunker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The strength of this method is that you can do virtually everything
>you can do within a normal music staff; its drawback is that you have to
>set its width explicitly.
This is a really elegant solution, Rainer! To pre
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:53:48 +0200 (CEST), Joerg Anders
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>Does anybody know a German translation for "grace" or
>"grace notes" ?
>
"Verzierung", "Verzierungsnote". Backed up by Muret-Sanders' general
English/German dictionary AND the "Polyglottes Wörterbuch de
Alexandros, you said you needed a bar symbol as well.
\bar won't work as desired; you'll need to fudge something else
that'll do the job. A starting point might be to use $\mid$ plus a
modicum of space afterwards -- something like the following:
\def\tbar{$\mid$\hqsk}
TeX this and see if you l
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:14:27 +0200, Alexandros Droseltis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried the same inserting the line
>\startextract\endextract
>before the text (and after the line "\input musixtex") and it worked, but
>this produced a small system (with a clef) before the text. How could I ge
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 21:59:24 +0100, Alexandros Droseltis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all!
>
>I am writing a music analysis with TeX, and I want to use some music symbols in
>the text, for example:
>
>The rhythmic motiv o| o|_o| o. [symbols] that is used in the first movement ...
Hi Alexand
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:34:24 -0800, Don Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>It is not anonymous so you'll
>need to record the username (mutex-anon) and password (mutex) as well as the
>host name (upload.sunsite.dk).
Does the actual upload directory remain the same as before? (Recorded
in the sess
Hello everyone,
among the feedback I've been getting for the BWV995 edition now
available in the Archive have been the now-familiar reports that
"Acrobat 4 doesn't display the ties".
What was news to me is that apparently there can be problems with
GSView as well. Somebody running GSView 4.0 and
Hello everyone,
sorry to bother the list with this, but this group is the most
polyglot gathering of musicians I know of.
Does anyone know the proper English translation for the German term
"Terzverwandtschaft"? All my dictionaries, online glossaries, and Web
searches have failed to deliver the
On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 11:26:56 +0100, "M. Chapman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You might check whether Windows and/or the program you're using to invoke
>Ghostscript/Ghostview knows where they are. If I remember correctly MikTeX
>tries to update the Ghostscript programs. If the old version of
>Gscr
Hello everyone,
I've just upgraded from MiKTeX 1.2 to MiKTeX 2.1. Result: I can't
create Postscript output any more.
Every darned DVI I've tried to convert, whether via the command line
or through YAP's "Print Postscript" menu item, has generated a slew of
font errors and resulted in zero output
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 15:40:44 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do a create a sliding line between two notes to indicate
>a glissindo? i.e.
I use the following:
\def\gliss#1#2#3{\rlap{\varline{#1}{#2\noteskip}{#3}}}%
...where #1 = vertical starting height, #2 = length in \
Hello all,
can anyone tell me where to find dviconcat (and, if possible, other
DVI utilities like dvidvi) in a form that'll run on Win2k? So far, all
I've been able to track down on CTAN etc. are the C files.
Alternatively -- if I end up having to handle the Current Project in a
single file -- I
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:10:29 +0100, Andre Van Ryckeghem
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>sorry i was to fast with an answer
>
>\advance\barno-1\setrightrepeat\alaligne\leftrepeat%
>
>is this what you want?
>
>Andre
Unfortunately, no. That's what I've already got -- it's example two in
the file I sen
Hello all,
I'd appreciate some help with the repeats and bar numbers in the
attached example file. To wit: I'd like to have the bar numbering
behave as it does in example 1, but the \rightrepeat as it appears in
example 2 (i.e. *not* written a couple of mm to the left of the end of
the staff, whi
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:11:55 +0100, "Jean-Pierre Coulon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The solution to this is using acrobat 4
>> Andre
>
>I hope the average internaut will be able to guess !:-)
... not to mention find a copy of Acrobat 4 to install. Where does one
go to find "outdated" versi
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:29:52 +0100, "Jean-Pierre Coulon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Put the statements in this very order:
>
>\startbarno=0
>\nobarnumbers
>\startpiece
>{first measures before the first line break}
>\systemnumbers
>{other measures before the first line break}
>{rest of the piece}
Hello everyone,
Still typesetting that Bach Lute Suite, I'm running into a couple of
bar numbering problems when compiling an output file that contains
more than one movement.
Here's what's happening:
First problem:
=
I specify \nobarnumbers\systemnumbers. This does what I expect wh
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:26:09 +0100, "Rainer Dunker"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> IMHO the easiest workaround is
> to introduce a manual right-shift of the line start in your \String
> macro.
I was afraid to try that as someone recently pointed out to me the
place in the MusixTeX manual wh
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:03:37 +0100 (CET), Christof Biebricher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I discussed the matter with Werner as we typeset the art of fugue and
>we used the following rules for the practical edition:
>1) Stick to the rules of modern notation, do not repeat an accidental
>in the sam
Hello everyone,
I'm typesetting one of the Bach Lute Suites with guitar fingering and
would like to upload it to the Icking Archive in time for the
anniversary of Werner's death. However, I'm running into problems with
certain fingering instructions, and I hope that one of the TeX gods on
the lis
Hello everyone, and all the best for a happy New Year to you all!
I'd like to solicit a few opinions about the use of cautionary
accidentals. Published scores that I own seem to vary wildly between
the extremes of putting in as many cautionary naturals as they can (up
to and including notating an
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 15:22:08 -0800, "Alexander V. Voinov"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes, a PDF with embedded fonts is larger, but who cares these days?
Anyone waiting for the file to come through a thirtysomething kbps
modem connection on a pay-per-call unit phone line...
Eva
--
"Everyone wh
Hello all,
having installed musixps.tex and related fonts from the package
Stanislav posted the other day, I'm running into problems when trying
to use it.
In a plain MusiXTeX source file, I've input musixps.tex after
musixtex.tex, but TeX still doesn't seem to recognise the new slur
commands (a
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:17:24 +0100, "Jean-Pierre Coulon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Since there is some demand for this, either on Mutex, or in private:
>
Right, here goes.
Double-checking those references I could track down at short notice in
my facsimile editions of Quantz and CPE, it's now
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:02:22 +0100, "Sander, Martin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am sorry, but this is IMHO again a mistyping: "to take out" instead of
>"to make out". For my solution to Jean-Pierre's problem see my former
>posting.
>The word "Ausnahme" NEVER had the meaning "effect", take my
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:48:11 +0100 (MET), Karl-Heinz Herrmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Example: "Ort trägt viel zur Ausnahme der Musik bey" (Quantz)
>>
>
>As a German -- this makes no sense. Could this be a typographical error?
>
Nope. The word is no longer used in this sense today, but it
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:37:11 +0100, Christian Mondrup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All in all Acrobat Reader 5 seems to be not a fully mature product
>version. I'm inclined to recommend a downgrade to version 4 for those
>wanting to view MusiXTeX scores with it.
Oops. I thought I had Acrobat Rea
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:23:26 +0200, zakharenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Does anybody have any suggestions or, perhaps, even solution?
Use plain MusiXTeX? This is exactly the problem that keeps me from
using PMX even though it might save a lot of time. I'd need to add so
much inline TeX that
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:19:59 +0100, Arjen Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Something is rotten, but is it the font or the viewer?
>
Acrobat Reader 5 seems to be somewhat dyslexic at times when it comes
to reading its own document format. The other day I tried to view a
PDF in Acrobat (on Win2k) an
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 19:17:22 +0200 (CEST), Joerg Anders
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok! Thank you! BTW: I'm not sure how many users need more
>than 2 lines of music. Most scores have at most 2.
Hello Jörg,
Typesetting classical guitar music routinely requires three voices per
stave. This is the
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