Bob, thanks for the explanation. Would it make sense to ask the MikTeX people to also include musixflx.lua in the package? I suppose I should also consider including it and the modified version of musixflx.exe in musixtex.zip (after I verify they don't give me any problems). Does anyone have any objections? ---- Bob Tennent <r...@cs.queensu.ca> wrote: > >|A puzzling thing happened when I tried a clean installation of MiKTeX 2.9 > >|and latest MusiXteX (from musixtex.zip) in Windows XT. I used instmus.bat > >|with all the defaults. In testing the install, the first pass of etex > >|went fine. But just typing "musixflx test" from my work folder, I got a > >|message from MiKTeX telling me that musixflx.lua is missing and offering > >|to download it from a random repository. ??? Further snooping revealed > >|there were two copies of musixflx.exe, one in the MiKTeX bin folder and > >|one in my MusiXTeX tools folder. The former must have been higher up in > >|the search path; explicitly running the one in my tools folder did not > >|cause the error. > >| > >|I sure don't remember and can't figure out where the copy in the MiKTeX > >|bin folder came from, and that's the one that causes the problem. Does > >|anyone remember or know what's happening? > > MiKTeX now provides a complete musixtex stack, including musixflx, > which in MiKTeX is a script that calls musixflx.lua. If you don't have > musixflx.lua, MiKTeX will download it for you, just like any other > missing package. What is the "problem"/"error"? If you don't want to > use the MikTeX versions, just un-install them using the MiKTeX package > manager. But for years there have been complaints that TeX distributions > can't be relied on to support MusiXTeX; I suggest you at least try > MiKTeX's musixtex before you do that. That is, try a "clean installation > of MiKTeX 2.9" *before* installing the "latest MusiXteX" separately. > > Bob > ------------------------------- > 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
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