siemsen@sol.usc.edu (Pete Siemsen) (01/19/91)
I know nothing about music, but I maintain TeX stuff here, and would like to support users who want to typeset music. About a year ago, I installed MuTeX. There was little documentation in the version I got from somewhere, but the example file demonstrated that it produced beautiful music. I installed it because I thought it was better than nothing. More recently, I saw a post in comp.text.tex about MusicTeX, so I got it. It seemed to be a replacement for MuTeX, as the font files had the same names but there was more example material and a really nice manual. I replaced our MuTeX stuff with MusicTeX stuff. A student of music is now experimenting with the package, and discovered a package of macros (mtex.tex) left over from the old MuTeX distribution. He was interested in documentation for it. I scanned old TeXhax issues, found a site for MuTeX, and retrieved it for the second time. Apparently MuTeX is evolved, because this release contains a nice 50-page manual, though it otherwise looks like the older version of MuTeX that I used to have. What is the "right" package to support for music people? Both? If so, how do I explain the two manuals? -- Pete Siemsen Pete Siemsen siemsen@usc.edu University of Southern California 645 Ohio Ave. #302 (213) 740-7391 (w) 1020 West Jefferson Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90814 (213) 433-3059 (h) Los Angeles, CA 90089-0251