Installing the fonts seems to be simpler now, just that it's not terribly well documented. I found that the following procedure works...
1. With a "Basic" MiKTeX 2.5 (i.e. without MiKTeX's MusiXTeX package) incorporate a "localtexmf" root (e.g. C:\localtexmf): you have to create C:\localtexmf\tex in order to do this or you get a cryptic error message IIRC. 2. Copy MusiXTeX files as normal (don't install TFM files even if you were redundantly doing that before: MiKTeX 2.5 doesn't look for TFM files in normal roots AFAIK) 3. Copy PFB files for the type1 fonts to C:\localtexmf\fonts\type1\public\musixtex 4. Copy DVIPS map to C:\localtexmf\fonts\map\dvips\musixtex BUT DO NOT INSTALL THE DVIPDFM MAP 5. Run initexmf --mkmaps (after initexmf --update-fndb) MiKTeX's internal updmap.cfg (which is the main font file for WEB2C which is what MiKTeX is based on) already includes the "MixedMap musix.map" line required to incorporate the fonts for pdftex and dvips. As far as I can see, editing config.pdf and config.ps directly is something that WEB2C's updmap.cfg tries to avoid the need for (though in MiKTeX 2.5 this is done via the initexmf --edit-config-file command if you really need to). However, because the line is already in updmap.cfg, as soon you provide musix.map in your localtexmf tree, running initexmf --mkmaps tells MiKTeX to incorporate the PFB files and it updates the configuration for pdftex, dvips and dvipdfm automatically. If you install the DVIPDFM map by mistake then you'll get lots of errors messages from pdftex and DVIPS though DVIPDFM I think worked. For any additional font problems, there are several guys on the MiKTeX-users list who generally respond very quickly to font problems (however, in my experience they tend to grumble at TeX rather than LaTeX users as we're not using LaTeX's NFSS!). When you installed MiKTeX 2.5 did you upgrade from 2.4 as Robin mentioned? From all of the posts I've seen on the MiKTeX-users list, upgrading seems to be a really bad idea! It would be advisable to get instructions for MiKTeX 2.5 (and then hopefully 2.6) working as apparently the older versions of MiKTeX (including 2.5) do not work under Windows Vista. HTH, David -----Original Message----- From: Eva-Raphaela Jaksch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:11:09 +0100 To: Typesetting music with TeX <tex-music@icking-music-archive.org> Subject: Re: [TeX-music] Re: Installing MusixTeX on MiKTeX 2.5 On Friday, January 5, 2007 at 3:26:53 PM, you wrote: > Yes you are right. There is a version of musixtex installed 'within' the > miktex directory structure. If you are a pure musixtex user that's > helpfull. > If you - like I - use mtx / pmx / musistex it's not that easy any more. > The installation instruction assume that you use a 'texmf' directory for > miktex and a 'localmf' directory for additional stuff. > With miktex 2.5 miktex is installed into ...\program files\miktex 2.5 > (standard application installation directory). Then you have to convince > miktex that the directory you have for the other stuff is a root > directory too. This is not that easy because miktex insists on a > specific directory structure --> you need to play a little with the > naming structure. > I needed some time to find out all this stuff (2 hours). But at the end > I had a working miktex 2.5 with mtx, pmx, musixtex in place. > Maybe it would be a good idea to change/improve the installation > instruction for miktex users Ah -- as the author of said instructions, this would seem to be where I come in. :) I will be happy to oblige on this point if -- and, I'm afraid, pretty much only if -- we have someone listening in who knows how to sort out arcane font issues in MikTeX 2.5 and would be available for advice and troubleshooting at need. As I posted just after Christmas, I encountered some strange behaviour with my favourite Palatino fonts once I had MusixTeX up and running on MikTeX 2.5. The problem didn't seem to be related to MusixTeX at all; it was some of the fonts I use in titles etc. that the system couldn't find. As I'm not even close to having the kind of TeX proficiency it would take to sort this business out on my own, and as I needed a working installation of MusixTeX at short notice, I ended up trashing MikTeX 2.5 and reinstalling my antiquated version 2.1.8, which is now working the way I expect it to. However,if we have someone here who's able and willing to talk me through any font issues that crop up, I'd be prepared to have another try at 2.5 and to document the process of installing MusixTeX on top of it. If not, I'll stick with the setup as I have it now and turn over the maintenance of the Install Guide to someone else, should anyone volunteer to handle it. 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