Re: WinEdt shortcuts?

2001-03-16 Thread evita . j
Mike, Is your batch file in a directory that's listed in your path statement? Like you, I run Win2k (though, in my case, it's by choice -- I *have* to run Windows apps as part of my day job, and my spare time is too rare and too precious to waste any of it on installing and learing another OS

Changing the default font

2001-03-12 Thread evita . j
Hello everyone, at the risk of exposing myself as a heretic in TeX-related circles grin, I hereby confess to an implacable loathing of the Computer Modern fonts. I'd like nothing better than to set things up in such a way that Palatino becomes the default font for everything my implementation of

Re: staff_paper

2001-03-04 Thread evita . j
On Sun, 04 Mar 2001 08:46:43 +, David Bobroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall many months ago that there was a solution posted here for how to make blank staff paper. I was sure that I had saved it but I can't find it. Does anyone have the solution? I have worked out a partial solution

Re: The Werner Icking music archive.

2001-02-23 Thread evita . j
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:06:45 +0200, Dirk Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Whatever will be the choise, I propose to change the name of the archive in 'Werner Icking Archive'. I support this suggestion with all my heart, but want the word "music" in it. The Werner Icking Music Archive. Ek

Re: Werner Icking +

2001-02-13 Thread evita . j
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:57:55 +0100 (MET), Joerg Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the unfortunate duty of informing the MusiXTeX mailing list that Werner Icking died on the night of February the 8th in a bicycle accident as he drove home from his workplace. This is truly dreadful news.

Re: MikTeX????

2001-01-29 Thread evita . j
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:39:17 +0100, "M. Chapman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /tex-archive/systems/win32/winedt/ It is worth the price. The shareware version is not watered down, but eventually you start getting "reminders" to purchase it every two minutes after the trial expiration date. There's

Re: Equal spacing between systems in MusiXTeX?

2001-01-01 Thread evita . j
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 09:46:02 -0800, Don Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. \parskip is adjusted to include a very large negative tolerance; e.g., \parskip 0pt plus 12\Interligne minus 99\Interligne 2. "struts" are defined: \def\upamt{27}\def\dnamt{-20}

Equal spacing between systems in MusiXTeX?

2000-12-30 Thread evita . j
Hello everyone, I'm currently typesetting a few simple solo guitar pieces for a beginning pupil, and using generous margins and lots of white space between systems to achieve an unintimidating appearance. :) In this sort of situation I'd like to be able to force exactly equal spaces between all

Re: MusiXTeX symbols in a text paragraph?

2000-10-03 Thread evita . j
A warm "thank you" to everyone who responded, on-list and off, to my query about inserting MusiXTeX symbols in a text paragraph. One problem down, umpteen to go... grin Eva -- "The guitar is the ideal instrument for anyone who is able to love loneliness." --Angelo

Re: Guitar notation: sustained barre chords

2000-09-18 Thread evita . j
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:00:04 +0200 (MET DST), Werner Icking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Werner, thanks a million for working out the solution -- I have been sorely missing an elegant way to indicate barres in MusiXTeX. It's a hack, not a solution. Perfectionist. I'm glad to have it just the

Re: Classical guitar notes with PMX

2000-02-08 Thread evita . j
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 02:15:41 +0100, Christian Schrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I write little numbers beside the noteheads. It´s to describe the fingering. Define a macro as in example below. You can change the font definition and location of the number to suit your desires. If

DVI to GIF/JPG/other?

2000-02-03 Thread evita . j
Hello everyone, this isn't strictly a MusiXTeX-related question except in the sense that I've been asked by someone to create some notation extracts to insert into a Word document. Is there any utility available that will allow one to convert a page of a DVI file to a graphics format that Word

More guitar notation

1999-12-30 Thread evita . j
Hello everyone, what I'm after this time is a way to indicate barre chords in guitar scores. I need a horizontal line that terminates in a very short descending vertical one. Werner Icking kindly pointed me towards his solution for *violin* fingering, but his command \def\hold#1{\raise

Re: Guitar-specific notation

1999-12-14 Thread evita . j
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:42:55 +0100 (MET), Werner Icking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The archive and it's search engine can be found by either http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ or: http://www.gmd.de/Mail/mutex-archive/ Thank you. I must confess I wasn't aware that there was an archive; now that I

Guitar-specific notation

1999-12-11 Thread evita . j
Hello everybody, Is it possible to represent a glissando in MusiXTeX in the form of a straight line going from (just below) one note head to (just below) another? If so, how? And what would be the procedure for placing a subscript 8 below every treble clef? (Not strictly necessary for guitar

Re: Can anyone help a complete novice with MusiXTeX installation?

1999-11-24 Thread evita . j
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:42:19 +0100 (MET), Werner Icking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By private mail we found the solution. It's not a good idea to process "foo.mx2" instead of "foo.tex" as 3rd MusiXTeX phase :-) Oh no, Werner -- now that sheepish grin I sent you privately *is* in a bright red

Re: Can anyone help a complete novice with MusiXTeX installation?

1999-11-23 Thread evita . j
Hello again, First of all, let me thank everyone who was kind enough to respond to my query, especially Christian Mondrup who provided a great deal of help behind the scenes as well as on the list. Thanks to all your help, I think I've now got everything installed all right. I'm reading my way

Can anyone help a complete novice with MusiXTeX installation?

1999-11-20 Thread evita . j
Hello out there, I'd like to install MusiXTeX on a Windows98 system. Unfortunately I've never worked with anything TeX-related before and haven't succeeded in tracking down any kind of introduction to the subject online, so I'm rather at a loss. Is there any kind soul out there who would be