Re: [Tex-music] Dream?
Am Dienstag, 1. Januar 2013, 12:47:04 schrieb Don Simons: Bob Tennent wrote |It did appear to install OK, although it took 3 hours You can select which collection to install. A full install is indeed massive. Yep, 3.3 GB, ~110,000 files !!! Turns out you need to run the advanced install batch script to be able to select options. With the minimal scheme, augmented only by the music typesetting package, and with twice as fast a download speed (10 Mbps), that took ~10 min, downloading 14000 files, 300 MB. |By searching, I found that pmx.tex had been put into |c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pmx Not the right place. I believe the TDS zip file somehow didn't get installed at CTAN though I think it was uploaded; that meant that TeXLive developers had to guess where to put files and it was incorrectly assumed that pmx.tex was documentation. I created folder c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pmx, moved pmx.tex there, and updated the filename database using the Windows GUI that had been installed in the start menu. pmx2pdf then worked just fine. So although not a dream, I'll grant that it was not too bad snooze. Still, a total novice would have been completely flummoxed. Would the fact that no one we know about had yet reported the mislocation of pmx.tex suggest that no one else (including the TeXLive developers) had ever tried installing and running pmx in Windoze from this version of TeXLive? --Don Simons Usually I use Linux, but I installed LiveTeX just for interest on Windows 7. After making the same modification as you and using barsant.pmx as testfile pmx2pdf works fine. Then I created barsant.dvi by pmxab barsant, etex barsant, musixflx barsant, etex barsant. Starting dviout I got did not find psslurs.pro although psslurs.pro exist in ...\texmf-dist\dvips\musixtex\. According with my linux-installation I inserted ...\texmf-dist\dvips\pstricks\ and copied psslurs.pro into, but dviout gives the same error message. I think that this is a problem of dviout itself because dvips for example finds the correct place of psslurs.pro and works as it should. Hermann Hinsch --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Dream?
|Usually I use Linux, but I installed LiveTeX just for interest |on Windows 7. After making the same modification as you and |using barsant.pmx as testfile pmx2pdf works fine. Then I created |barsant.dvi by pmxab barsant, etex barsant, musixflx barsant, etex |barsant. Starting dviout I got did not find psslurs.pro although |psslurs.pro exist in ...\texmf-dist\dvips\musixtex\. According with |my linux-installation I inserted ...\texmf-dist\dvips\pstricks\ and |copied psslurs.pro into, but dviout gives the same error message. |I think that this is a problem of dviout itself because dvips for |example finds the correct place of psslurs.pro and works as it |should. Hermann: You should *not* be making changes to TeXLive's texmf-dist. Create a personal texmf tree and add missing files there. dviout isn't in TeXLive. You'd have to look at the documentation and find out how to configure it to search for files like psslurs.pro. Bob T. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Dream?
| dviout isn't in TeXLive. You'd have to look at the documentation and | find out how to configure it to search for files like psslurs.pro. | |it certainly _looks_ as if it _is_ in tex live: | | 2012/05/15 |2235244 | | systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/dviout.win32.tar.xz Aha! It's in TeXLive *on Windows*; not surprisingly, it seems to have trouble with Postscript specials, even with ghostscript installed. Herman: Is there some reason why you prefer to work with dvi files rather than Postscript or PDF? dvi really isn't a good format if you're using Postscript slurs. BTW, the -s option to pmx2pdf will cause processing to stop at the dvi file. Do pmx2pdf -h to see all the options. Bob T. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Dream?
|It did appear to install OK, although it took 3 hours You can select which collection to install. A full install is indeed massive. |By searching, I found that pmx.tex had been put into |c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pmx Not the right place. I believe the TDS zip file somehow didn't get installed at CTAN though I think it was uploaded; that meant that TeXLive developers had to guess where to put files and it was incorrectly assumed that pmx.tex was documentation. Yesterday I uploaded version 2.6.19 to CTAN but I don't think Robin has installed it yet. And because that includes a new pmxab, texlive won't install it until texlive-2013. Really bad timing here. |On a related note, and before I did the above test, I was explaining to a |Mac-head friend about the supposedly new and seamless way that people can |get tex, musixtex, and pmx from online archives. To my surprise he |wanted to |test it out, and did a default install of MacTeX on the spot. After it |finished (in about 15 minutes), I had him search his hard drive for |pmx.tex |and musixtex.tex, and he didn't find either one. Sounds like he did a minimal install, which is at the other extreme. What he should in principle do now is install the necessary packages tlmgr install musixtex musixtex-fonts pmx m-tx or all the music-related packages: tlmgr install collection-music. But it's likely that pmx.tex will be in the wrong location. Thanks for the report. I'll try and get it fixed ASAP. If you copy c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pmx/pmx.tex to your working directory, everything should work. Bob T. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Dream?
Bob Tennent wrote |It did appear to install OK, although it took 3 hours You can select which collection to install. A full install is indeed massive. Yep, 3.3 GB, ~110,000 files !!! Turns out you need to run the advanced install batch script to be able to select options. With the minimal scheme, augmented only by the music typesetting package, and with twice as fast a download speed (10 Mbps), that took ~10 min, downloading 14000 files, 300 MB. |By searching, I found that pmx.tex had been put into |c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pmx Not the right place. I believe the TDS zip file somehow didn't get installed at CTAN though I think it was uploaded; that meant that TeXLive developers had to guess where to put files and it was incorrectly assumed that pmx.tex was documentation. I created folder c:/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pmx, moved pmx.tex there, and updated the filename database using the Windows GUI that had been installed in the start menu. pmx2pdf then worked just fine. So although not a dream, I'll grant that it was not too bad snooze. Still, a total novice would have been completely flummoxed. Would the fact that no one we know about had yet reported the mislocation of pmx.tex suggest that no one else (including the TeXLive developers) had ever tried installing and running pmx in Windoze from this version of TeXLive? --Don Simons --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Dream?
|So although not a dream, I'll grant that it was not too bad snooze. |Still, a total novice would have been completely flummoxed. I agree and it shouldn't have happened; but such things do happen. |Would the fact that no one we know about had yet reported the |mislocation of pmx.tex suggest that no one else (including the |TeXLive developers) had ever tried installing and running pmx in |Windoze from this version of TeXLive? TeXLive supports dozens of architectures and this issue would have affected all of them. It's not surprising that the TeXLive developers wouldn't have tried running pmx. And I'm sure I tried but didn't notice that pmx.tex wasn't from texmf-dist as it should have been; I had to delete pmx.tex from my working directory and from a personal texmf tree before kpsewhich pmx.tex came up empty. It's a little surprising that nobody else noticed the problem but they might be the completely flummoxed total novices who wouldn't have known to whom to complain. Bob T. --- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
