Dave McLachlan wrote
> I have recently installed MikTeX 2.5 and MusixTeX. I've tried both the
> package version of 2003-05-21 and the T113 version available from the
> Wener Icking Archive. They have been installed onto an MS Windows XP
> Pro system.
>
> I get the same result from both to the effect that the TeX compiler
> cannot find a font definition named as nu.cfg. The log seems to be
> saying that the font name is nullfont.
I haven't reproduced your error nor even identified any file named nu.cfg.
But I have done a clean install of MikTeX 2.5 and MusiXTeX-T113, and
successfully compiled a musixtex document. So the system can be made to
work.
I'm guessing that you have some residual files from your initial attempt to
use the musixtex supplied with MiKTeX. I'm going to suggest that you wipe
the slate clean, i.e., remove all vestiges of MiKTeX and musixtex that you
have on your system, and then start over.
When installing MiKTeX, I chose the minimum ("basic"?) installation and
installed in the default location. I think there was an option to set
MiKTeX to prompt you before it installs any missing elements. Make sure you
do have it prompt you, and if it ever offers to search for any files related
to musixtex, don't let it! You must not trust MiKTeX to install any part of
musixtex from its own archive. Instead, you must manually copy files from
musixtex.zip to the appropriate locations.
When I installed MiKTeX under XP, I chose an option to install for multiple
users. The MiKTeX install went without any hitches.
MiKTeX put its program files in the default program folder c:\Program
Files\MiKTeX... (sorry I'm now at home and the computer I did this on is at
the office, so I'm working partly from memory). MiKTeX also set up a user
directory c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.5 .
The user directory is the key. Whenever the muswininstall.pdf says to set up
subfolders under "localtexmf", do it under this user directory instead. Make
sure you update the filename database when you finish adding things to the
user directory. The only other files you need to emplace manually are the
.exe's and they can go in any folder that's in your path. You might as well
use the "bin" folder in the MiKTeX program directory, named something like
"c:\Program Files\MiKTeX\MiKTeX2.5\bin, since the MiKTeX install program put
that folder into the path for you.
When you run a test case, if MiKTeX complains that some part of musixtex is
missing, DO NOT let MiKTeX search for and install it. Go find it yourself,
put it into the user directory, update the filename database, and try again.
Good luck, and let's all cross our fingers that the problem with nu.cfg goes
away.
--Don Simons
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