Thank you for the advice. However, there is need to use LyX, if I want TeX/LaTeX plus a convenient and attractive way to write my papers (much text and little music).
My question is on behalf of my wife, who is brand new to TeX/LaTeX and needs all the help she can get for getting started. Ergo LyX. She is a musicologist, and therefore needs to set no more than two-three line examples, to be included in the text. Sometimes the examples are just short enough and scattered enough that it is inconvenient to make separate files for all of them. So, I am affraid that I will have to leave your recommendations aside. I (and my wife) will put up with the inconveniences. The quality of output justifies it!! > > This raises another question I have. The way things are now, LyX produces > > a file with blank lines every other line. This means that music I code in > > LyX is unusable unless, again, I export the file and edit by hand. My > > solution has been to code the notes in an editor, and include it in the > > LyX file. This is not always convenient. Is there a way to have musixtex > > not break because of blank lines in LaTeX? > > LyX is only a front end for TeX/LaTeX and there is no need to use it > if all you want is TeX or LaTeX. > Probably you you would be much better off if you work with your favorite > editor and tex it by hand. > LaTeX is to be preferred only if you write a document with much text and > little music. Otherwise plain TeX is not only sufficient but even better > because it uses less registers. > For the preprocessors that save so much time, LyX is no help anyway. > For a frontend, you can write a simple script yourself or you can modify > one that is used by other members of the list. > > Christof _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
