Re: [Tex-music] Dirk Laurie

[Bob Tennent]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:07 AM Christian Mondrup <
c...@icking-music-archive.org> wrote:

>
> I believe to remember an email correspondance in which Dirk considered
> rewriting M-Tx in luatex.
>

Yes, I remember him asking me if I would take that on.  As I'm fairly
unfamiliar with the M-Tx language (input), the pmx language (output) and
lua (the proposed programming language), I declined.

Bob T.
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Re: [Tex-music] Dirk Laurie

[Christian Mondrup]

Den 28.07.2022 kl. 14.37 skrev Bob Tennent:

The following announcement may be of interest:

https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=6628 





The last time I was in email contact with Dirk was March 2019. I was
preparing a revision of one of my M-Tx engravings. As so often before I
got the help I needed.


M-Tx isn't mentioned explicitly but his interests were said to
include "music (choir singing, playing the recorder, and aficionado
in general)".

The current form of the musixtex.lua script is very much due to
Dirk's extensive development of and improvement to the rudimentary
script I had produced.


I believe to remember an email correspondance in which Dirk considered
rewriting M-Tx in luatex. Unfortinately those emails are (no longer) in
my archive.

In my working years as developer I was scripting databases and never got
comfortable with C-, Pascal- etc. programming. So I can't offer to take
over the maintenance of M-Tx. But from my decades long experience with
another open source engraving facility, MUP (http://www.arkkra.com/)
I'll recommend it as a highly qualified alternative to M-Tx.

Best wishes
--
Christian Mondrup
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:WIMA_files

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Re: [Tex-music] Dirk Laurie

[Bob Tennent]

Thank you Luigi.  Your guide to M-Tx (in Italian) is Chapter 3 of

https://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/lcgpmx.pdf

Bob T.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 5:18 AM Luigi Cataldi  wrote:

> I'm really saddened by this news. I constantly use mtx, which for me has
> always been a really useful program and for which I have also written a
> guide in Italian that should still be on WIMA.
>
> I am not a programmer, but it seems necessary that the program continues
> to be available.
>
> Last but non least. Is there anything we can do to celebrate his memory on
> WIMA?
>
> Luigi Cataldi
>
>
> Il 25/07/22 23:09, Bob Tennent ha scritto:
>
> I've just learned that Dirk, the author of the m-tx preprocessor died in
> 2019.  Is anyone interested in taking over the original sources (in
> Pascal)?  I'll continue to maintain the CTAN package as long as there is
> interest.
>
> Bob T.
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Re: [Tex-music] Dirk Laurie

[Luigi Cataldi]

I'm really saddened by this news. I constantly use mtx, which for me has 
always been a really useful program and for which I have also written a 
guide in Italian that should still be on WIMA.


I am not a programmer, but it seems necessary that the program continues 
to be available.


Last but non least. Is there anything we can do to celebrate his memory 
on WIMA?


Luigi Cataldi


Il 25/07/22 23:09, Bob Tennent ha scritto:
I've just learned that Dirk, the author of the m-tx preprocessor died 
in 2019.  Is anyone interested in taking over the original sources (in 
Pascal)?  I'll continue to maintain the CTAN package as long as there 
is interest.


Bob T.

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