Re: [Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.

[Bob Tennent]

 >|If you don't install Ghostscript, there are already
 >|ps2dpf and pdf2ps in your MiKTeX distribution. There is
 >|enough doc about dvips and other ps utilities in the doc
 >|folder of your MiKTeX folder. But none about ps2pdf. Does
 >|anybody know how the TeX community and the Ghostscript
 >|community collaborate ?

MiKTeX and TeXLive have decided to provide ghostscript but
not full documentation. 

On Unix-like platforms, TeXLive assumes ghostscript is
already installed.

I don't think the failure to provide documentation is a
collaboration issue. Most LaTeX users generate pdf output
these days.

Bob T.

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Re: [Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.

[Robin Fairbairns]

Jean-Pierre Coulon  wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Bob Tennent wrote:
> 
> > >|I couldn't find any on my MiKTeX distribution. Are there any somewhere?
> >
> > Look for Ps2pdf.htm in the doc folder of a ghostscript
> > installation (Program Files\gs\gsX.XX).
> 
> Thanks. I was looking for a .dvi or a .pdf!

picky!

> If you don't install Ghostscript, there are already ps2dpf and pdf2ps
> in your MiKTeX distribution. There is enough doc about dvips and other
> ps utilities in the doc folder of your MiKTeX folder. But none about
> ps2pdf. Does anybody know how the TeX community and the Ghostscript
> community collaborate ?

at the archive level, hardly at all.  i used to mirror it into ctan, but
they change the address for every new version (and keep every archaic
version on the net, last i looked).

so we decided to drop that mirror on the grounds that it was (as often
as not) misleading.  (after all, mirror.ctan.org is not noticeably
easier to type than www.ghostscript.com).

robin
the fading ctanner.


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Re: [Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.

[Jean-Pierre Coulon]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Bob Tennent wrote:


>|I couldn't find any on my MiKTeX distribution. Are there any somewhere?

Look for Ps2pdf.htm in the doc folder of a ghostscript
installation (Program Files\gs\gsX.XX).


Thanks. I was looking for a .dvi or a .pdf!

If you don't install Ghostscript, there are already ps2dpf and pdf2ps in 
your MiKTeX distribution. There is enough doc about dvips and other ps 
utilities in the doc folder of your MiKTeX folder. But none about ps2pdf. 
Does anybody know how the TeX community and the Ghostscript community 
collaborate ?


Have a nice weekend

Jean-Pierre Coulon
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Re: [Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.

[Bob Tennent]

 >|I use dvips as my routine viewer when editing, so it's
 >|an easy step to use it to make a pdf when I'm ready.
 >|However, I do recognize that some people would rather
 >|have a single command they can type in a command window
 >|to make their pdf.

Don: I think you mean gsview, not dvips. And Jean-Pierre's
question wasn't how to call ps2pdf but about where to find
documentation.

Bob

 >|> -Original Message-
 >|> From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Bob
 >|> Tennent
 >|> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 6:44 AM
 >|> To: Werner Icking Music Archive
 >|> Subject: Re: [Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.
 >|>
 >|>  >|I couldn't find any on my MiKTeX distribution. Are there any
 >|somewhere?
 >|>
 >|> Look for Ps2pdf.htm in the doc folder of a ghostscript installation
 >|(Program
 >|> Files\gs\gsX.XX).
 >|>
 >|> Bob T.
 >|>
 >|> P.S. I've had better results using pdftops from xpdf than pdf2ps.
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Re: [Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.

[Don Simons]

I use dvips as my routine viewer when editing, so it's an easy step to use
it to make a pdf when I'm ready.  However, I do recognize that some people
would rather have a single command they can type in a command window to make
their pdf.

--Don Simons

> -Original Message-
> From: TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] On Behalf Of Bob
> Tennent
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 6:44 AM
> To: Werner Icking Music Archive
> Subject: Re: [Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.
> 
>  >|I couldn't find any on my MiKTeX distribution. Are there any somewhere?
> 
> Look for Ps2pdf.htm in the doc folder of a ghostscript installation
(Program
> Files\gs\gsX.XX).
> 
> Bob T.
> 
> P.S. I've had better results using pdftops from xpdf than pdf2ps.
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Re: [Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.

[Bob Tennent]

 >|I couldn't find any on my MiKTeX distribution. Are there any somewhere?

Look for Ps2pdf.htm in the doc folder of a ghostscript
installation (Program Files\gs\gsX.XX).

Bob T.

P.S. I've had better results using pdftops from xpdf than
pdf2ps.
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Re: [Tex-music] Scanner Input for PMX

[Dieter]

Don--

thank you for your encouragement. So far I scratched only the surface of 
MusicXML, i.e. the basic notes properties. Now I am trying to decode a 
piano setting with two voices in each stave.
When that works, then I have to think about how to distribute it. Maybe 
I am a bit in a Cul de Sac with my 20 year old Oberon implementation. 
But I could not do the development in any other language. The language 
is simple, but most powerful and the environment is extremely responsive.
We have several options.  I am not totally convinced, that I will get to 
a point where I can distribute an executable. Therefore I will have to 
distribute source code. I will be checking the follower systems at 
Zürich.  Another option would be to rewrite my logic in LUA. But there I 
do not have any practice.


Meanwhile it would be useful (as you say) to have other sources of 
MusicXML than Scanner + SharpEye. So anybody who can provide 
MusicXML-sources will be most welcome.


--Dieter

Am 07.11.2014 00:32, schrieb Don Simons:


Dieter---

Thanks for adding to PMX's utility!

I, and I'm sure others, would gladly try out your MusicXML => PMX 
translator if you would make it available. I'm sure we can find other 
ways to get some MusixXML files besides scanning with the somewhat 
costly software you mentioned.  If you choose to upload, the method is 
up to you...I'm sure Bob Tennent would be willing to set up a link 
from the icking archive, or as suggested earlier you could perhaps use 
github (although I personally detest that site due to its overly 
complicated user interface).


--Don Simons

*From:*TeX-Music [mailto:tex-music-boun...@tug.org] *On Behalf Of *Dieter
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 05, 2014 5:39 AM
*To:* Werner Icking Music Archive
*Subject:* [Tex-music] Scanner Input for PMX

Dear PMX users,

I want to rapidly communicate on my recent experiences with Scanner 
input into PMX.


In my choir we often have the task of modifying existing notes either 
in parts of the  music or the text.
And I do not want any handwritten corrections, but something which 
looks nice. This, of course, I produce with PMX.


Manually turning existing note sheets into PMX code is straightforward 
and quite fast. But with a Scanner it would be much faster.
So I made some experimentation with the Scanner Software *Smart Eye* 
from VISIV /UK.  Smart Eye generates after scanning (among other 
options)  output in terms of MusicXML,
which has been developed by Recordare (www.*musicxml*.com 
)./


/In the last two weeks I have been working on a prototype which reads 
in MusicXML and spits out the notes partfor PMX.I include as example a 
christmas carol
for SATB. After scanning there remained some inaccuracies, which could 
easily resoved with the notes editor of SharpEye.


The final MusicXML code has not been touched, and everything after  
and including the line "% Bar 1" has been generated automatically.


Of course, my little prototype does not (yet) completely implement 
MusicXML. Another drawback for wider use of my development might be, 
that I employed a somewhat exotic language:  OBERON from Niklaus Wirth 
of the ETHZ Zürich.


You are most welcome to further discuss this topic.

Regards,
Dieter
/


/

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Dr. Dieter Glötzel
Im Rosengarten 27
64367 Mühltal
Tel.: 06151 / 360 82 72


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Im Rosengarten 27
64367 Mühltal
Tel.: 06151 / 360 82 72

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[Tex-music] ps2pdf and pdf2ps user manuals.

[coulonnus]

I couldn't find any on my MiKTeX distribution. Are there any somewhere?

Bye,
--
Jean-Pierre Coulon
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