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.
The basic question here is how to avoid reinstalling MusiXTeX if you upgrade your TeX system. Suppose you are using Windoze and MiKTeX 2.8, with TeX root path is the default c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8 . If you had followed the default MusiXTeX installation procedure given in mxinsuse.pdf which is included with musixtex.zip (1.15) in WIMA, your MusiXTeX files would be somewhere else. Now to upgrade to MiKTeX 2.9, no matter how you replace the TeX files, MusiXTeX would be intact---still somewhere else---and at most you'd have update some path variables and (new) TeX config files. On the other hand, suppose you had followed the instructions included with the CTAN, TDS-compliant MusiXTeX version. Then as I understand it the MusiXTeX files would be intermingled with the TeX files in various subfolders below the TeX root at c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8 . Now it seems there are several options, among them (1) Rename the existing root to MiKTeX 2.9; then perform the default MiKTeX 2.9 installation; or (2) Use the new default MiKTeX root c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9. Questions: 1. In case (1), will the old MusiXTeX files still be there? 2. In case (2) is there any better choice than to completely redo the entire MusiXTeX (TDS-compliant) installation process? 3. Is there any better way to upgrade MiKTeX (while keeping the same MusiXTeX) than either case (1) or case (2)? --Don Simons ------------------------------- 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
