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 musixflx ;o) > I didn't find the suggestion to purchase a $600 software to do this "simple" > job. I'm certainly not a Sibelius salesperson (especially as someone who has to pay the full whack for it), but if you're teaching then you're entitled to a massive discount. My point was that it took literally 2 minutes to enter your example into it and even an experienced TeXnician could not enter (and with 100% accuracy) that MusiXTeX input at the same time. It's also a lot easier if you're composing to use a processor rather than a setter as you can make changes considerably faster. > I don't know enough about using PMX as a preprocessor - I'm a beginner, > remember :). I've never used it (simply because I use MusiXTeX as output from more complex programs so I don't need yet another pre-processor on top of mine!), but there's a lot of documentation and copious examples, not to mention its author on this list if you get stuck! > Is there a way to configure TexShop to do the three part compile? Afraid I can't help you there - http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/documentation.html seems to have a fantastic lack of documentation about TeXShop itself and I don't have a Mac to be able to see if there's any online documentation. > And why wouldn't the examples compile out of the box? If they needed a > package, > why didn't the compiler state that. I've attached the compile error. The examples do compile out the box (including the transcript in your message revealed what you were doing incorrectly) - you're using LaTeX when they're written in plain ole TeX. Remember that it's MusiXTeX not MusiXLaTeX - the primary driver for this program is intended to be tex (the .sty file just adds an environment: the idea is that you'd only use MusixTeX with LaTeX for typesetting musical examples - MusiXTeX's manual, for example) so you simply need to compile with tex (or pdftex) instead of latex (or pdflatex). In general, it's a good idea to write scores using tex only - one of the extensions (musixsty) contains a few macros for doing common things like titles and so on which you may miss without LaTeX commands being available. > Is there a way to fix (the manual, the distribution, ???) so that others can > compile without much hassles? The manual is fine - read page 5 where it says "tex jobname" :o) David ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
