>>>>> "Laurie" == Laurie Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Laurie> Gianni Cunich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Laurie> extolled the virtues of "MusixTex".
Laurie> If it really serves the purposes of many users, I am sure that
Laurie> it will soon come to dominate the scene, with or without
Laurie> pre-processors.
No, you haven't looked at it. It won't dominate the scene if people
have to type and edit it directly.
Laurie> If a pre-processor to MusixTex is the answer to everything
Laurie> then I'm sure someone (possibly even Bryan) will write it.
There are people (including the principal maintainer of MusiXTeX)
doing a lot of good work in PMX, which is an ABC-like preprocessor,
which nevertheless allows a lot of control over the look of the
output. There are also people extending LINUX-based sequencers to
export it, and recent versions will export MIDI. So I think it's
starting to be the answer to a lot of things.
The big reason I can't tell you more from personal experience is that
most of the music I'm interested in is vocal music, and you need a
preprocessor to the preprocessor for that, which I've never managed to
install correctly.
If you aren't interested in lyrics, and have a LINUX system, MusiXTeX
and PMX will both install from RPMS, and theres a wide body of
examples of how to use them at http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/.
I might add that abc2mtex was the original ABC application, as well as
one of the early MusiXTeX preprocessors, so if you don't need the
recently added features of ABC (like multiple voices and lyrics), you
can experiment with MusiXTeX output without learning a new input
language.
One of the reasons I'm encouraging this is that I'd really love it if
someone would update abc2mtex to include the newer features. John
Walsh has done some preliminary investigation, which is on my list to
post the results of some day. Another route to investigate would be
an abc2pmx translator.
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