kenc@madmax.Viewlogic.COM (Kenstir) (01/11/91)
I'm having a really hard time getting musictex running
(especially since there's no documentation!). The only
pointer I got was to run TeX on notice.tex and it bombs:
! Font \circlew=circlew1 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
I don't seem to have any font `circlew1' in my TeX
distribution (from labrea.stanford.edu). Also, before
it dies, it loads a file called `outputlj.tex' which
looks suspiciously like laserjet nonsense (I have a
PostScript printer).
Can someone point me in the right direction?
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...Thanks to all who have read this far...
Kenneth H. Cox
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
kenstir@viewlogic.com
...!harvard!cg-atla!viewlog!kenstirmarcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) (01/11/91)
In <1991Jan10.161701@madmax.Viewlogic.COM> Kenneth H. Cox (kenc@madmax.Viewlogic.COM) asks: > I'm having a really hard time getting musictex running > (especially since there's no documentation!). The only > pointer I got was to run TeX on notice.tex and it bombs: > > ! Font \circlew=circlew1 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. > > I don't seem to have any font `circlew1' in my TeX > distribution (from labrea.stanford.edu). That's a typo: replace "circlew1" in file musicpln.tex by "circlew10". That font is part of the standard distribution, I think; it also comes with musictex. However, you do not really need it, the output it produces is ugly. Instead, use the special fonts that come with musictex (just ignore the error message). There is documentation: notice.tex *is* the (16-page) documentation. There is also a short aa_readme.text. > Also, before it dies, it loads a file called `outputlj.tex' which > looks suspiciously like laserjet nonsense (I have a PostScript printer). outputlj.tex is a standard TeX file, and does not contain any printer specific things, your printer won't have problems with it. (In fact, if a TeX file contains printer specific things, it is usually PostScript nonsense.) Incidentally, I got my copy of musictex (that is Daniel Taupin's musictex) from archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]. Marcel van der Goot marcel@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu
stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) (01/11/91)
In article <1991Jan10.161701@madmax.Viewlogic.COM> kenc@madmax.Viewlogic.COM (Kenstir) writes: >I'm having a really hard time getting musictex running >(especially since there's no documentation!). The only >pointer I got was to run TeX on notice.tex and it bombs: > > ! Font \circlew=circlew1 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. > >I don't seem to have any font `circlew1' in my TeX >distribution (from labrea.stanford.edu). Also, before I had the same problem. I believe it's a typo and should read `circlew10' instead. At least that produced correct-looking output. -- Andreas Stolcke stolcke@icsi.berkeley.edu International Computer Science Institute stolcke@ucbicsi.bitnet 1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704 (415) 642-4274 ext. 126
wsk@hpclpa.HP.COM (William S. Kaster) (01/12/91)
>/ hpclpa:comp.text.tex / kenc@madmax.Viewlogic.COM (Kenstir) / 1:17 pm Jan 10, 1991 / >I'm having a really hard time getting musictex running >(especially since there's no documentation!). The only >pointer I got was to run TeX on notice.tex and it bombs: > > ! Font \circlew=circlew1 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. Looks like you were bitten by someone else's 8-character-limit-on-filename machine. The .tfm name is ``circlew10'', most 8 character filename systems truncate that to ``circlew1''. circlew10.tfm is distributed with LaTeX. You can either edit the appropriate file, or make a copy of circlew10.tfm as circlew1.tfm. Regards, -Bill -- William S. Kaster ** Hewlett-Packard ** Palo Alto, CA wsk@hpclpa.hp.com or wsk@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
karl@CS.UMB.EDU (Karl Berry) (04/19/91)
I recently posted a query about alternatives to MuTeX. Many people pointed me at MusicTeX, by Daniel Taupin, which handles multiple staves. You can get musictex by ftp from rsovax.circe.fr [130.84.128.100]. When I ftp'd it on 17 April, some files were dated in March 1991, so I guess it is still under development. Since I had trouble connecting to the French site, I put a copy of what I got on ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23], in pub/tex/musictex.tar.Z. Other people pointed me at an article in the March Communications of the ACM, on a music typesetting system called Lime. I haven't read the article yet. Thanks to everyone who responded. (It's semi-amazing how much more mail I got about this than I do about web2c! (For those of you who don't know what web2c is, never mind, it doesn't matter.)) karl@cs.umb.edu