>|The basic question here is how to avoid reinstalling MusiXTeX if you >|upgrade >|your TeX system. Suppose you are using Windoze and MiKTeX 2.8, with >|TeX root >|path is the default c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8 . If you had followed the >|default MusiXTeX installation procedure given in mxinsuse.pdf which is >|included with musixtex.zip (1.15) in WIMA, your MusiXTeX files would be >|somewhere else. Now to upgrade to MiKTeX 2.9, no matter how you replace >|the >|TeX files, MusiXTeX would be intact---still somewhere else---and at most >|you'd have update some path variables and (new) TeX config files. >| >|On the other hand, suppose you had followed the instructions included with >|the CTAN, TDS-compliant MusiXTeX version. Then as I understand it the >|MusiXTeX files would be intermingled with the TeX files in various >|subfolders below the TeX root at c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8 .
No. *Either* one uses MikTeX package management to install MusiXTeX (as recommended) *or* one installs from CTAN in a *separate* local or private texmf tree. >|Now it >|seems >|there are several options, among them (1) Rename the existing root >|to MiKTeX >|2.9; then perform the default MiKTeX 2.9 installation; or (2) Use the new >|default MiKTeX root c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9. Questions: >| >|1. In case (1), will the old MusiXTeX files still be there? >|2. In case (2) is there any better choice than to completely redo >|the entire >|MusiXTeX (TDS-compliant) installation process? >|3. Is there any better way to upgrade MiKTeX (while keeping the same >|MusiXTeX) than either case (1) or case (2)? If one uses MikTeX packagement, one simply installs MusixTeX in the new MikTeX tree. If one installs from CTAN, the existing files are still there. Of course, all this is also true for TeXLive. BTW, to "completely redo the entire MusiXTeX (TDS) installation process" involves little more than unzipping a zip file. Bob ------------------------------- 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
