> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 03:22:25 +0900
> From: Sungkon Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
^^^^^^
Hello JSB, I saw your Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo typeset with
MusiXTeX on http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores/. So I'm astonished
about your problems using MusiXTeX and reading the docs :-/
> I frankly have no knowledge about tex programs, or musictex either.
I hope you have some knowledge about typessetting music. Without such
knowledge it will be hard to get nice TeX-processed sheet music (maybe
except with PMX or Mtx)
> However, I have used LaTeX2e for typesetting mathematics for nearly a
> year and half. I may be aware of a little of tex file documentation.
> Recently, since I am interested in running Musictex and enjoy playing
> music, I tried, several times, to run musictex in the tex software with
> the file musictex.zip downloaded. First time, it seemed to run
> musicdoc.tex fine, but the actual notes in the staff did not appear; it
> just looked like some vertical bars.
... plus some stems, some beams, ...?
This specific problem seems to be that your TeX system does not find
the font files for the music symbols. The reason may be that the
fonts are not generated automatically; that the mf-files are not
put at the right place; that you forgot to run something like "texhash"
after installing the file; that the pk-files are not named properly (e.g.
\300dpi\musix20.pk or musix20.pk300 or ???); ...
Please correct :-)
> I don't usually enjoy reading much instruction. Please, tell me some
> quick installation of this package and what was the problem if there is
> out there someone who knows it.
The archive of the Mu{si[c|X]}TeX mailing list (cf. http://www.gmd.de/Mail/)
contains some mails concerning installation. But maybe it's easier to
read musixdoc.ps, musixdoc.lj, musixdoc.tex, or musixdoc.dvi as to find
that mails :-(
-- Werner Icking
