Bob Tennent <[email protected]> wrote: > >|By now I can avail myself of 3 different versions of > >|musixtex.zip: > >| > >| (1) the official WIMA version: > >| http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixtex.zip > >| , > >| > >| (2) the Bob Tennent version, recommended in WIMA "for users > >| whose installation is compliant with the TDS" with a > >| link to "here": > >| http://CTAN.org(tex-archive/macros/musixtex/musixtex.zip , > >| > >| (3) the CTAN version: > >| http://CTAN.org(tex-archive/macros/musixtex/musixtex-texmf.zip > >| > >| As far as I can gather, (1) is what mxinsuse.pdf (DSimons et > >| al.) refers to, and (2) is what goes with your installation > >| guide. > >| > >| But what does (3) refer to ? (looks to me that's also > >| 'yours' ...) > > That's the TDS-compliant part; it's now everything except the README, > the ChangeLog, the installation doc and the licence. Please at least > read the README and if possible musixtex-install.pdf. It wouldn't kill > you to actually do an installation somewhere. > > >| And are the 3 versions -- they are all different from another > >| -- compatible/incompatible when used for the various > >| installion guides/install scripts ? I must admit that I am a > >| bit confused, and I believe that's not entirely due to my > >| slow conception ... > > There are two versions. The CTAN version is derived from the "official" > WIMA version but uses an distribution-independent approach to > installation. This is what MikTeX and TeXLive use because they > understand this approach. The WIMA method is mostly Windows or even > MiKTeX-dependent and is far more complicated. > > >| As I am presently writing the MiKTeX 1.15 Installation part > >| of my PMX tutorial and am engulfed in discussions with Don > >| about all that, this is not an academic questions, but > >| clarity will help many readers.; so your help will be > >| appreciated! > > I'm just working on updating pmx at CTAN (to version 2.6.03, because > that seems to be the best compromise between bug-fixes and unstable > and/or incomplete features). Unfortunately, TeXLive won't take pmx > because the source is in Fortran but perhaps MiKTeX will.
up until quite recently, i was taking stuff for ctan from wima (i told this list about my procedure some time ago). i have always found the wima software pages confusing (notably because of multiple versions of the same thing, with subtly different names), so when bob started working on musixtex, i gave up my stumbling attempt to get an up-to-date pmx onto ctan. as of now, i shall no longer struggle to gather stuff from wima; if anyone wants a package from wima on ctan (and hence, possibly, in tex live), they will need to upload the package to ctan, in the normal way. robin one of the last few ctan maintainers ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
