) (11/14/90)
Hello everyone: I was poking around the net again, only to find in SIMTEL's PD1:<MSDOS.TEX> a file named MUTEX.arc which evidently contains Music Macros for Tex. In case there are those who don't know wot Tex is, it is basically a typesetting system, more for Postscript printers and the like. All of it is available in that directory anyways, so if you are interested, go there and find out more. This would be good for those of you who need to get it all down on paper; and make it look good, without going to a professional (besides yerself) :-) Ronn
pcchou@athena.mit.edu (Patrick C Chou) (11/15/90)
Music with TeX? This sounds great! Do you have any more info like how to get these macros? I'm not very familiar with the net (yet). I don't even know what SIMTEL is. Some elaboration would be appreciated. Thanks! Pat
mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) (11/16/90)
MusicTeX is so much better.
steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky) (11/17/90)
In article <1990Nov15.161346.7516@ircam.ircam.fr> mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes:
MusicTeX is so much better.
OK, where do we find it? This is the first I've heard of anything but
MuTeX in the way of TeX macros for music.
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vera@locus.com (William Vera) (11/17/90)
In article <1990Nov15.161346.7516@ircam.ircam.fr> mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes nothing but: > MusicTeX is so much better. Gee, that's nice..., hey everybody, there is something out there called MusicTeX! Michel, instead of wasting time and net bandwidth by simply being opinionated, how about explaining (for those who may not have heard of it) what MusicTeX is and how it is better than Mutex. Inquiring minds would like to know (without having to beg). Or is it that MusicTeX is not Public Domain but rather proprietary to IRCAM, and therefore almost impossible for most of us out here to obtain? vera@locus.com {randvax,ucbvax}!ucla-se!lcc!vera {oblio,gryphon,turnkey,attunix}!lcc!vera
rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) (11/18/90)
In article <19644@oolong.la.locus.com> vera@locus.com (William Vera) writes: In article <1990Nov15.161346.7516@ircam.ircam.fr> mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes nothing but: > MusicTeX is so much better. I agree. Gee, that's nice..., hey everybody, there is something out there called MusicTeX! Michel, instead of wasting time and net bandwidth by simply being opinionated, how about explaining (for those who may not have heard of it) what MusicTeX is and how it is better than Mutex. Inquiring minds would like to know (without having to beg). Or is it that MusicTeX is not Public Domain but rather proprietary to IRCAM, and therefore almost impossible for most of us out here to obtain? Musictex is better because it is an extension of mutex. There are enhanced features as well as new features. Specificly, it supports multiple staves more easily. There is a copy of musictex available via anonymous ftp on qed.rice.edu (128.42.4.38) in pub/musictex.tar.Z. This is an alpha test distribution, which means you should expect to find some bugs in it. I've been unable to contact the author, and have been told that at this point in time he would prefer to concentrate on development rather than support. You need tex and possibly metafont as well to use musictex. Musictex is freely redistributable. If you need more info, get it and read the documentation. Rich
wsinjv@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Jack Verhoosel) (11/20/90)
Hello Richard, Thanks for letting mecopy MusicTex !! Now, the following question that arises is: How can I use it and where do I find any documentation ??? Jack.
rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) (11/21/90)
In article <1581@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> wsinjv@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Jack Verhoosel) writes:
Thanks for letting mecopy MusicTex !!
Now, the following question that arises is:
How can I use it and where do I find any documentation ???
Jack.
It's on qed.rice.edu (128.42.4.38) in pub/musictex.tar.Z, available
by anonymous ftp. In the distribution, the file
musictex/demos/notice.tex contains what documentation there is. There
are also a large number of example scores in musictex/demos. Rich