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

2011-02-09 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, K. Wieland wrote: 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.  I didn't find the suggestion to purchase a $600 software to do this "simple" job.

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

2011-02-09 Thread Christof Hesse
file which can be read for instance by kdvi. Regards Christof > > Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:37:26 -0500 > Von: "K. Wieland" > An: tex-music@tug.org > Betreff: Re: [Tex-music] Beginer question - lines run off t

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

2011-02-09 Thread David Allsopp
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 m

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

2011-02-09 Thread K. Wieland
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. I didn't find the suggestion to purchase a $600 software to do this "simple" job. I don't know enough about using

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

2011-02-08 Thread Jean-Pierre Coulon
I succeded in compiling your file after several jobs: 1: I trimmed off the LaTeX lines to obtain a simpler TeX file, 2: I removed unnecessary spaces, i.e. change 'qb0 i' into 'qb0i' etc. 3: I said TeX yourfile, musixflx yourfile, TeX yourfile. I you make a single TeX pass there is some emtpy spa

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

2011-02-07 Thread David Allsopp
more info about musixtex's related tools on WIMA (with the documentation). HTH, David From: tex-music-boun...@tug.org [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of K. Wieland Sent: 07 February 2011 15:35 To: TeX-Music@tug.org Subject: [Tex-music] Beginer question - lines run of

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

2011-02-07 Thread K. Wieland
Hello everyone. I have a beginners question. My background:I have quite a bit of experience with LaTex, though it has been a while. I want to be able to typeset some simple songs for my son who is a beginning piano player. I am using a mac, so I installed a new texshop distribution. I not