Don Simons wrote: > 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.
<snip> > 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 . That's not my reading of it - "Simply unzip this archive in the root folder/directory of whichever TEXMF tree you decided is most appropriate, likely a "local" or "personal" one." (Section 2). There is *no* scenario, without exception, in MiKTeX 2.8+ where files should be manually edited or installed in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.x - everything should be done using a local root (this is the same with every package-managed TeX distro on every OS). If the word "appropriate" has been obeyed, there should be no files in MiKTeX's root! I can't remember in which version it was dropped (it was whenever the default install changed from C:\texmf to C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.x), but C:\localtexmf is no longer created by default during setup - you have to create the directory somewhere yourself and add it as a local root (I usually use C:\ProgramData\MikTeX\Local for a shared local root on Vista/7) I'm still on MiKTeX 2.8, but isn't 1.15 now correctly packaged in MiKTeX (the date and version number both look correct - http://miktex.org/packages/musixtex)? While installing pre-processors manually may still be necessary, it's a much better route (if possible) to have MusiXTeX being installed on Windows in the same way as the other 2000+ packages already available in the MiKTeX repository! 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
