Re: [Tex-music] MusiXTeX or Tex bug or feature?

Bob Tennent wrote: > >|I've more commonly seen this using OpusTeX - it's usually >|a sign that > either the .mx2 file is out-of-sync with the > >|.mx1 file, as Bob noted. > > either ... or what? Oops - the "either" was from an earlier edit which I clearly forgot to delete! > >|Deleting the

Re: [Tex-music] MusiXTeX or Tex bug or feature?

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: > When I musixtex a file I obtain the message \inline= and I am unable to enter > any character. X gives nothing. All I can do is to kill the command > prompt window I was working with. CTRL-X is rarely the command exit anything - CTRL+C should terminate TeX, unless

Re: [Tex-music] Octave treble clef

Bob Tennent wrote: > >|> BTW, NONE of this would ever have come up if the octave >|treble > clefs were handled in MusiXTeX the same as normal >|clefs. Just sayin'. > > I guess the use of single digits to reference clefs precluded adding > additional "normal" clefs. Yes and no - what it

Re: [Tex-music] LaTeX, No room for a new \dimen?

Don't you just need \usepackage{etex} early in your preamble? > -Original Message- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of > coulon...@free.fr > Sent: 20 December 2016 11:32 > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: [Tex-music] LaTeX, No

Re: [Tex-music] Umlaut o

Don Simons wrote: > I have problems entering lower case "o" with an umlaut into pmx files, and > getting my TeX setup to recognize them. Andre has told me that he can type > one from his keyboard by hitting two keys in succession, first the umlaut, > then the "o". Problem #1 is that I do not have

Re: [Tex-music] Help please

Dirk Laurie wrote: > After the latest changes to M-Tx on GitHub, I was tempted to remove > "\input pmx" from mtx.tex since it is no longer needed there and will be > input from the .tex files made by PMX. > > Doing so gives an error "No room for a new \read" on the big mtxdoc.ltx > build.

Re: [Tex-music] Help please

Dirk Laurie wrote: > 2016-01-17 11:15 GMT+02:00 David Allsopp <dra-n...@metastack.com>: > > Dirk Laurie wrote: > >> After the latest changes to M-Tx on GitHub, I was tempted to remove > >> "\input pmx" from mtx.tex since it is no longer needed there and

Re: [Tex-music] Source code repositories

TL;DR Dirk has answered with some reasons, already, but various responses from me: Don Simons wrote: > I'm firmly and completely on the fence on this one. On one hand, on > general principles I suppose it would be nice and maybe even useful > to someone to have a formal PMX source code

Re: [Tex-music] M-Tx 0.61

Dirk Laurie wrote: > 2015-11-28 12:43 GMT+02:00 Dirk Laurie : > > 2015-11-27 14:54 GMT+02:00 Christian Mondrup archive.org>: > >> Dirk Laurie wrote: > > > > I am also, to my shock, no longer qualified to build the > > documentation

[Tex-music] Source code repositories

I've had a quick search, so I believe the answer is already "no" - are the sources for MusiXTeX and related tools really configured only in a directory of released versions (http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/) or are there some proper source code repositories? If there aren't, can

[Tex-music] "Short" barlines

Does MusiXTeX already have support for "short" barlines (to use Sibelius's terminology) - connecting lines 2, 3, 4 only (an equivalent OpusTeX's Gregorian \divisiominor)? I coded one using: \def\setdivisiominor{% \def\barrul@{\hbox{\advance\systemheight by -4\internote\advance\altplancher by

Re: [Tex-music] musixjaz challenges

Don Simons wrote: > Some months ago I posted some fonts and a file musixjaz.tex with macros > that enable typesetting in a way that emulates a jazz fake book. I've had > very little feedback. Nevertheless, I'd like to point out shortcoming and > ask if anyone is interested in pursuing a fix. I had

Re: [Tex-music] Hard vertical space in PMX

dsim...@roadrunner.com wrote: Dirk-- It's nice to see some PMX activity! Could you post the input file so I can play with it? Also, I'm thinking about your PMX macro suggestion, but don't hold your breath...since I got a machine with 64-bit windows, my trusty visual fortran compiler

Re: [Tex-music] Hard vertical space in PMX

Don Simons wrote: David Allsopp wrote: dsim...@roadrunner.com wrote: Dirk-- It's nice to see some PMX activity! Could you post the input file so I can play with it? Also, I'm thinking about your PMX macro suggestion, but don't hold your breath...since I got a machine

Re: [Tex-music] [TeX-music] using MusiXTeX with TeXnicCenter

On 12 Mar 2015, at 15:49, Julian M morei...@msn.commailto:morei...@msn.com wrote: Thank you for your response Dieter. As Bob said, my problem wasn't connected to the using of MusiXTeX itself, but rather its installation. And Bob patiently helped me solve them :) However, I'll take a look at

Re: [Tex-music] curly.tex and tuplet.tex

Bob Tennent wrote: Dear all: I propose to incorporate the definitions in these extension libraries into musixtex.tex. The reason is that Karl Berry, ever-vigilant for possible file-name clashes in TeXLive, feels the file names are too generic and I've only been allowed to put them into the

Re: [Tex-music] Mirrors of our Maiing List?

Dieter wrote: Hi Christian, I really do not want anything being mirrored. So my questions are (to you and the MusixTex community): (1) Who is behind gmane.org and mail-archive.com, who are already mirorring our mail? gmane isn't just mirroring - its primary purpose is to convert an email

Re: [Tex-music] I broke my musixflx.exe by using the debug mode!

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: I have tried out the debug modes of musixflx by adding d, f or s after musixflx myscore. Now, when I use musixflx without such a letter, I obtain: Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV General Protection Fault at eip=6b0b etc. How can I go back to normal? Deleting

Re: [Tex-music] I broke my musixflx.exe by using the debug mode!

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, David Allsopp wrote: Have you rebooted your machine? No, but much simpler! I deleted the command prompt window I was working with, opened a new one and it works! It seem the f option is the culprit. I compared the results of a SET command

Re: [Tex-music] Diagonal lines

Don Simons wrote: Well, the coding in \varline is still pretty inscrutable, but there's a comment in the version of it in tuplet.tex saying it builds up the line with 10-pt segments, evidently from a selected character in the font musixspx. So that explains why I can't get a line shorter than

Re: [Tex-music] Imposition

Don Simons wrote: By imposition I mean converting a file defining a set of letter-size (8.5 by 11 in) pages into one defining a set of ledger size pages (17 by 11), each one containing two letter sized ones, and arranged in such a way that I can print the ledger sheets 2-sided to make a

Re: [Tex-music] MusiXTeX file locations in Windows

Don Simons wrote: David Allsopp wrote The only thing which should write to C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86) is a setup program (MiKTeX Package Manager falls into this category) - I believe the MiKTeX installer does as well Indeed - but that's a de facto setup program :) human

Re: [Tex-music] MusiXTeX file locations in Windows

Don Simons wrote: I know I could get answers to some of my questions by doing some testing, but I thought maybe someone could respond authoritatively enough to save me that trouble. snip On the other hand, suppose you had followed the instructions included with the CTAN, TDS-compliant

Re: [Tex-music] Archive stats observations and mysteries

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Christian Mondrup wrote: /ByComposer.php/scores/ByComposer/scores/ByComposer/ByComposer/scores /ByComposer/Dowland.php Looks really weird. There are quite a few such cases. WIMA has no such path; so I suppose URL accesses like that origin

Re: [Tex-music] Archive stats observations and mysteries

Christian Mondrup wrote: Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Christian Mondrup wrote: /ByComposer.php/scores/ByComposer/scores/ByComposer/ByComposer/score s/ByComposer/Dowland.php Looks really weird. There are quite a few such cases. WIMA has no such path; so I suppose

Re: [Tex-music] TeX Compiling

Robin Fairbairns wrote: Xavier Moch xa...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks all ! There are many advantages in using tex (or etex) rather than pdflatex ; but as a consequence, I've got a question with TeX... Does anyone know whether it is possible to activate the ansinew encoding with TeX

Re: [Tex-music] Compiling mtxdoc in Windows (was RE: Compile error in M-Tx documentation)

Bob Tennent wrote: |... I wouldn't think that Windows users would |have any interest in constructing mtxdoc.pdf from scratch. | |I've been responsible for creating extensive revisions of musixdoc, |which is |a more complex document than mtxdoc, and I did all the work in |Windows. So I

Re: [Tex-music] Make (Was: Compiling mtxdoc in Windows

Bob Tennent wrote: |At the risk of labouring a point I have made in another post: it isn't |just a question of building documentation. It's about a method for |creating a LaTeX document containing plenty of music snippets originally |coded in M-Tx. But the document in question *is* the

Re: [Tex-music] Compile error in M-Tx documentation

Don Simons wrote: I'm glad that the Linux-Unix-Debian-pdftex contingent can now sleep soundly. I also see exactly how the new PMX etex-demanding commands got into the mix (when the embedded examples were compiled with mtx/pmx). But there are still a few mysteries I'd like to pursue, for my

Re: [Tex-music] Compiling mtxdoc in Windows (was RE: Compile error in M-Tx documentation)

Don Simons wrote: At that point it transitioned from adventure to slog, and I threw in the towel, leaving the keys to this forbidden kingdom to the Unix gurus for the time being. Quick translation of the Makefile (I haven't tested it) make dvitarget The effect of this statement is to cause

Re: [Tex-music] Large score

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, David Allsopp wrote: Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of a very large score (by large, I mean as in number of pages/bars inside a single \startpiece..\stoppiece block)? Here is one with 9 pages of music between \startpiece

[Tex-music] Large score

I'm doing a bit of testing on something at the moment and could do with a huge MusiXTeX score to feed it. Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of a very large score (by large, I mean as in number of pages/bars inside a single \startpiece..\stoppiece block)? Direct MusiXTeX source

Re: [Tex-music] MusiXflx enhancement: vertical spacing?

Dirk Laurie wrote: I find that I spend a lot of time getting my vertical spacing just right, most of the time by trail-and-error. I'm also not overfond of the PMX benign bug described as follows in the manual: When TEX'ing the output of PMX you will usually get an Underfull \vbox

Re: [Tex-music] musixflx in Lua

Bob Tennent wrote: |Possibly, but if two scripts were being maintained then I'd maintain |that identical output is the more critical thing to have (and, yes, in |the 16th decimal place - no optimising compiler re-orders floating point |instructions without being told that unsafe optimisations

Re: [Tex-music] musixflx in Lua

Bob Tennent wrote: | It should be functionally identical to musixflx.c (up to round-off |error). | |Is this just a throw-away line or are there actual systemic differences |in the precision of the floating point variables used? Floating point |calculations are a CPU function - it would be

Re: [Tex-music] musixflx in Lua

Dirk Laurie wrote: 1. Identical results on the same architecture requires switching off *all* optimization in the C compiler. Not even a widely disseminated software package such as BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines) promises identical runs nowadays, even for two runs on the

Re: [Tex-music] Swing

Jill-Jênn VIE wrote: Is there a way in PMX (or, I bet, rather MusiXTeX) to put the well-known swing tempo indication: http://totalguitarist.com/lessons/reading/notation/guide/notes-and- rhythm/swung-8th-notes.gif ? Afraid I don't quite have enough time this morning to try it myself, but in

Re: [Tex-music] musixflx in Lua

Bob Tennent wrote: Last November, Dirk Laurie suggested that we should be porting the M- Tx/PMX/musixtex/musixflx toolchain to LuaTeX. I won't review his arguments here, but I'm pleased to report that Nikhil Helferty, a student here, has successfully converted musixflx.c (version 0.83.3) to

Re: [Tex-music] Beginer question - lines run off the page without manual breaks

K. Wieland wrote: All, Thank you for the responses.  In my defense I did read the manual (which is obvious since I couldn't have coded the music without it!).  I found it helpful most of the time.   Yes, but you didn't seem to have read the introduction or you'd have found out about

Re: [Tex-music] Beginer question - lines run off the page without manual breaks

There are a few layout typos in the file but I expect the problem is that you're not running musixflx and just doing a single pass of (pdf)latex. I would anticipate that the samples aren't working because you only copied musixtex.tex and musixtex.sty into your local directory - musixtex

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: I have a piano score with only 4 systems. I do not like the vertical distribution I obtain because the first and last systems are stuck to the vertical boundaries of the page. Instead, I would like the space above the first system and below the last system to be

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, David Allsopp wrote: Robin Fairbairns wrote: Jean-Pierre Coulon cou...@obs-nice.fr wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Robin Fairbairns wrote: what's the concept of ugly in a tex source? Simply the need for my calculating the half

Re: [TeX-Music] Vertical distribution of systems.

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, David Allsopp wrote: Incidentally, why do you want fixed spacing at the bottom of the score? I want - in the vertical direction - half_space/system/space/system/space/system/space/system/half_space At present this fixed spacing is my ugly

Re: [TeX-Music] Individual key signature

Early music (C15 and some early C16) often has pieces which require one part to be notated in a different key from the others. Typically because of a cantus firmus part in one mode with polyphony written in a slightly different mode. D From:

Re: [TeX-Music] PMX upgrade philosophy

Don Simons wrote: Thanks, David. With the code you suggested, running with tex produces == C:\DOCUME~1\Don\MYDOCU~1\PMX\musixtex115tex bigjunq This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (MiKTeX 2.6) (bigjunq.tex (musixtex.tex MusiXTeX(c) T.115-beta2 24 June 2010

Re: [TeX-Music] PMX upgrade philosophy

Don Simons wrote: There have been some interesting suggestions and in my last posting I even got sucked a bit into gee whiz yeah we can do that mode. But I still haven't seen any convincing arguments about why the next version of PMX shouldn't REQUIRE eTeX and the expanded MusiXTeX.

Re: [TeX-Music] M-Tx, number of staves

Dirk Laurie wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:05:54AM +0200, Don Simons wrote: 3. (and here's where it gets really ugly) use a special FORTRAN program I wrote to go through the prepmx output file, looking for and deleting every occurrence of rp | rp | PMX and M-Tx both carry

Re: [TeX-Music] scope of cautionary accidentals

Don Simons wrote: Oops, never mind! I sure did miss the point. I'll have a look into why the later ones came out as cautionary, but the real TeXperts will probably have an answer before I do. Heh, heh - having had a rather too indulgent Corpus Christi to do any of my own work, here's a

Re: [TeX-Music] scope of cautionary accidentals

Bob Tennent wrote: snip Thanks. I can confirm that this does work on my example. But I'm wondering why \smallaccid was essential in producing the incorrect behaviour. \smallaccid is a shorthand which tells musixtex to interpret \fl as \smallfl and so on. \smallfl uses \w...@sa where the \fl

Re: [TeX-Music] (sem assunto)

Robin Fairbairns wrote: Don Simons dsim...@roadrunner.com wrote: I don't think the situation is as grim as Cornelius paints it. Within musixtex114.zip is a file mxinsuse.pdf containing detailed installation instructions for either XP or Vista, and a batch file instmus.bat that will

Re: [TeX-Music] (sem assunto)

Marcelo Rodrigues wrote: Dear Sirs, I would like to know the commands for writing all the musical symbols. Not entirely sure what you mean by this - do you mean to include musical symbols in text (as in, the symbol for a crotchet, the symbol for a quaver, etc.) or how to produce music?

Re: [TeX-Music] do loop with \zcharnotes.

Be careful when writing macros - the blank line at the top of \macboucle will translate to a \par in the expansion. It's also a good idea to put a % to prevent spaces in \def's. There's also no need to use \makeatletter and \makeatother unless you're accessing internal macros containing the @

Re: [TeX-Music] do loop with \zcharnotes.

Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, David Allsopp wrote: Be careful when writing macros - the blank line at the top of \macboucle will translate to a \par in the expansion. It's also a good idea to put a % to prevent spaces in \def's. There are so many blank lines

Re: [TeX-Music] do loop with \zcharnotes.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, David Allsopp wrote: How about \raise\xpos\rlap{\kern\ypos#3} instead? Works fine if I express the vertical position of the first \rlap in terms of \internote's above the first line, but is there any way to make a macro that accomodates a note name, like \zcharnote

Re: [TeX-Music] [Poll] IDE for PMX

I tried several years ago to design a BNF-like Sorry, what's BNF? A way of writing down grammars (syntax) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form However, TeX and its related languages (such as PMX) are more usually geared towards stream/stack parsers rather than LR(1)

Re: [TeX-Music] TeX, Latex and iMac

Graham Norton wrote A. The good news is that TexMozartp3.tex (see attached) did compile and generate the same output as in the manual (except for the bar numbers). For this to work, the input file and the directory musixtex MUST be at the same level in the parent directory. This is

Re: [TeX-Music] Hi all

Hi Marcello, Your document as it stands is correct for a first pass - you need to run musixflx with your job-name from a command line (or find out how to configure your IDE to do it - it'll be similar to configuring it to run tools like makeindex or bibtex). Having done that, you

Re: [TeX-Music] special meter with PMX

Hermann Hinsch wrote: A question to the TeX experts: Actually I think a METAFONT expert would be more help here but they're such a rare breed... I would like to get a special design of the printed part of a meter, as it is used in early music like this: C3/4 or O3/1, to be exact instead of

Re: [TeX-Music] Understanding Postscript-to-pdf conversion better.

Postscript-to-pdf conversion better. On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, David Allsopp wrote: Short answer - you don't need GhostScript installed for MiKTeX's ps2pdf to work (sorry Robin!). MiKTeX is designed to be megalithic in that regard and have no external dependencies. Humm! mgs -h gives at the end

Re: [TeX-Music] Understanding Postscript-to-pdf conversion better.

Short answer - you don't need GhostScript installed for MiKTeX's ps2pdf to work (sorry Robin!). MiKTeX is designed to be megalithic in that regard and have no external dependencies. MiKTeX has an embedded version of GhostScript (gswin32c.exe patched and renamed to mgs.exe)... it does some weird

Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader

contains this (thanks to David Allsopp, 28 Jan 2008): @echo off if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 @tex %1 @musixflx %1 @tex %1 @dvips -q* -tA4 %1 @ps2pdf - sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf @start %1.pdf :end because I want to view the .pdf immediately

Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader

] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader David Allsopp wrote There are two options: a) Use GhostView (but it's not free) ... ?? It looks free to me, but I didn't try to install since I already have it from years ago. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ --Don Simons

Re: [TeX-Music] smart musixtex.cmd script, Acrobat reader

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, David Allsopp wrote: This works here: if not exist %1.tex goto :EOF if exist %1.mx2 del %1.mx2 rem if exist %1.pdf del %1.pdf tex %1 musixflx %1 tex %1 dvips -q* -tA4 %1 ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -r300 %1.ps %1.pdf

Re: [TeX-Music] Source editing, XP, EDIT, notepad

-Original Message- From: icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk [mailto:icking-music-archive.org-tex-music-boun...@mailman.nfit.au.dk] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre Coulon Sent: 03 January 2009 12:44 To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: [TeX-Music] Source

Re: [TeX-Music] OpusTeX

snip the package was never on ctan -- just a particular ctan node's /incoming directory. otoh, the reason i kept it that way was that andreas egler wanted it so. so ubuntu isn't a dissident ctan, but it may be behaving contrary to the authors intentions. The /incoming folder contained

Re: [TeX-Music] musixtex.bat, errorlevel, MiKTeX under XP

PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre Coulon Sent: 28 January 2008 10:24 To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] musixtex.bat, errorlevel, MiKTeX under XP On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, David Allsopp wrote: Your attachment hasn't got through (certainly to me!) - lots

Re: [TeX-Music] musixtex.bat, errorlevel, MiKTeX under XP

OK, I'm a programmer so usually use make for TeX files as I would for other projects and I've never had a problem with errorlevels in MiKTeX (make aborts on any stage if the errorlevel is non-zero). Does this shell script improve the situation - Yes it does! I can recreate the bad

Re: [TeX-Music] MusiXTeX hates LaTeX: true or myth?

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Christof Biebricher wrote: But for a book or even a larger brochure, it would be crazy not to use LATeX. No TeXpert has the time to reinvent what hundreds of developpers hane done. At the risk of ending up off-topic, I'd say the opposite of that is true - a book takes a

Re: [TeX-music] Re: Installing MusixTeX on MiKTeX 2.5

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

[TeX-music] Installing MusixTeX on MiKTeX 2.5

Just started doing this. Had anyone else noticed that since MiKTeX 2.3, MusiXTeX T.112 and the type-1 fonts have been correctly packaged in MiKTeX itself? The only mistake is that musixflx.exe is left in {install-root}\source\generic\musixtex\musixtex-src.cab but if this is extracted and moved to

[TeX-music] RE: TeX-music Digest, Vol 37, Issue 1

I have instructions for installing MusiXTeX under MiKTeX 2.4 and am hoping to upgrade my system to MiKTeX 2.5/Vim 7.0/latest MusiXTeX this week. If you want, send me the TeX file for your instructions and I'll update them for MiKTeX 2.5 as I go. David - Here are my current instructions

Re: [TeX-music] Latest MikTeX versions for MusixTeX purposes?

The MiKTeX Repository package for MusiXTeX (2.5 or 2.4) still doesn't include musixflx.exe making it essentially broken. I too am still waiting for MiKTeX 2.5 to become a little more stable before updating (so sticking with 2.4.1461). I followed the Windows guide a few years ago: the only problem

[TeX-music] \startmuflex inside a group

Apologies about this request: I'm still running MusiXTeX T.112 rather than the latest version and so haven't checked this issue properly. Hopefully it's a very quick answer for any MusiXTeXnician looking at this! I hit an unexpected problem placing \startpiece...\endpiece inside a \vbox in order

RE: [TeX-music] Mac OS 7.6.1?

You could try Apple's Mac Programmer's Workshop - http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/ for a C compiler for MacOS 7. Alternatively, OpusTeX 0.84 includes a Perl script version of opusflex. Perl can be found at http://www.perl.com/download.csp#mac - I used that version under Windows for