Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-07-28 Thread Hermann Hinsch
Am Sonntag, 9. Juni 2013, 15:22:38 schrieb Raphaela: Hello all, I used to be quite an active user of MusixTeX for classical guitar typesetting, but have been occupied with other things for something like six years now. I'd like to take it up again with a view to completing a few projects I l

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-07-28 Thread Hermann Hinsch
Am Sonntag, 9. Juni 2013, 15:22:38 schrieb Raphaela: Hello all, I used to be quite an active user of MusixTeX for classical guitar typesetting, but have been occupied with other things for something like six years now. I'd like to take it up again with a view to completing a few projects I l

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Raphaela
On Monday, June 10, 2013 at 3:30:56 PM, simon.dre...@gmx.net wrote: > Actually, that's not necessary (if you have enough space). Have a look > at http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb32-1/tb100gregorio.pdf for a detailed > description of the installation of texlive on debian-based systems. > Version 2013

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Bob Tennent
>|Correct. I'm on my own! My next step will be to attempt to remove the >|existing TeX installation using the software manager, and then go with >|your strand (b). Once I have a TeX installation in place that tlmgr >|(which seems to have been somewhat crudely removed from the "full" >|version

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Raphaela
On Monday, June 10, 2013 at 3:17:05 PM, dirk.lau...@gmail.com wrote: > Where would I find the PATH and how >> do I add things to it? > Say you have some excutables in /home/raphaela/texmf/bin. > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > $ PATH=/home

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Simon Dreher
Hi Raphaela, >> (raphaela may have a local helper, but if that helper is "hot" enough to >> know about tl 2013, it's a bit odd that she needs _our_ help.) > > Correct. I'm on my own! My next step will be to attempt to remove the > existing TeX installation using the software manager, and then go

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Dirk Laurie
2013/6/10 Raphaela : > To that end, would someone be kind enough to explain how to add "the > relevant bin directory" to my PATH? Where would I find the PATH and how > do I add things to it? Say you have some excutables in /home/raphaela/texmf/bin. $ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/us

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Raphaela
On Monday, June 10, 2013 at 12:28:27 PM, robin.fairbai...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: > note that there are two strands of tex live: (a) the one supplied when > you install things from .rpm or .deb, and (b) the one you download from > the net and install for yourself. I found that out the hard way yester

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Bob Tennent
>|Thanks, but I discovered after writing my last post that tlmgr is >|actually absent from the version of TeXlive (even TeXlive-full) in the >|Mint/Ubuntu repositories! I managed to install a musixTeX package via >|the repositories, but it's out of date and doesn't work as it should. Raphaela:

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Bob Tennent
>|2013/6/9 Raphaela : >| >|> thank you. I have now installed the full TeXlive package, but the >|> instructions on the page for Unix-like systems are not working for me >|(all I >|> get is a "command 'tlmgr' not found" message) and I don't know how to go >|> about installing a package manual

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Robin Fairbairns
Dirk Laurie wrote: > 2013/6/9 Raphaela : > > > thank you. I have now installed the full TeXlive package, but the > > instructions on the page for Unix-like systems are not working for me (all I > > get is a "command 'tlmgr' not found" message) and I don't know how to go > > about installing a pa

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Raphaela
On Monday, June 10, 2013 at 11:12:49 AM, dirk.lau...@gmail.com wrote: > A chicken-and-egg problem. If you already have an older TeXLive it can > used to get the new one going, but if you don't, your system can't see > the necessary scripts. > Find the directory >texlive/2012/texmf/scripts >

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-10 Thread Dirk Laurie
2013/6/9 Raphaela : > thank you. I have now installed the full TeXlive package, but the > instructions on the page for Unix-like systems are not working for me (all I > get is a "command 'tlmgr' not found" message) and I don't know how to go > about installing a package manually. A chicken-and-eg

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-09 Thread Raphaela
Bob, thank you. I have now installed the full TeXlive package, but the instructions on the page for Unix-like systems are not working for me (all I get is a "command 'tlmgr' not found" message) and I don't know how to go about installing a package manually. I assume that what I need would be somet

Re: [Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-09 Thread Bob Tennent
>|So I'm returning to this list with much the same request for >|help that I posted back on Mutex years and years ago -- would >|anyone be kind enough to talk me through the process of setting >|up the requisite software on my current machine? Just yesterday >|I installed Linux Mint 15 on a sp

[Tex-music] Back to square one after a long break from typesetting

2013-06-09 Thread Raphaela
Hello all, I used to be quite an active user of MusixTeX for classical guitar typesetting, but have been occupied with other things for something like six years now. I'd like to take it up again with a view to completing a few projects I left unfinished back then, but it's been so long that my las