jalbert@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Francois Jalbert) (09/09/89)
There has been some talk in the last few months about the music
typesetting set of macros MTeX. Since I came across that package last
April, I have looked somewhat into it. I would like to share my findings
with all of you people out there.
MTeX can handle single-staff music with one or two voices. It can also
put text below the staff, and knows about most accents that go above
notes, or simply above the staff. However, it cannot deal with multiple-
staffs, or with notes of variable size. The current version is only 0.92
and one can wonder if a version 1.0 ever saw the light of day. I am
still hoping one day to finally manage to contact the authors. So far,
no luck in my attemps.
I immediately saw last April the potential of this system which happened
to answer exactly my modest needs. Unfortunately, the brief document in
german enumerating the available macros was the only documentation
available. I felt the need for a more complete user's guide still
remained unanswered, and so I volunteered to give it a try.
The guide (Version 1.1) has been around for some time and is about 40
pages long. Among other things of interest, Appendix C lists several
errors I already have found in MTeX. I also generated several standard
series of fonts which accompany the guide. The whole MuTeX package
(MTeX+Guide+Fonts) can be FTPed from the following three locations
stolaf.edu 130.71.128.1 pub/MuTeX.tar.Z
yale-zoo-suned.arpa (suned.zoo.cs.yale.edu) 128.36.21.1
cs.ubc.ca 128.189.97.5 src/MuTeX/MuTeX.tar.Z (slow)
If you plan on making this package available for FTP at your site, I
would appreciate you letting me know your coordinates and the path to be
used for retrieving MuTeX. I plan on keeping updating the list of these
sites in the Preface of the forthcoming versions of this guide.
Francois Jalbert
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jalbert@cs.ubc.ca