Hi there,
First of all: thanks for replies, I'll try to remember them.
Now:
Reinhard Katzmann wrote:
>
> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Stanislav Kneifl wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'd like to know if there are some people using Amiga and
> > MusiXTeX/OpusTeX out there. If so, please, let me know, I'd like to ask
> > you to become a beta-tester of my powerful WYSIWIG music editor.
> > ...
> > voices), automatic horizontal spacing, MIDI mixing witch access to any
> > MIDI controller (similar to Cakewalk), access to all OpusTeX features,
>
> Are you directly using MusiXtex or do you translate to PMX before making
> the .tex- File ?
I create OpusTeX file directly, there is no reason for using
preprocessor (remember: the preprocessors are for humans, being more
readable; but they are also less powerful than the target language).
Besides, I know a lot about OpusTeX's internals, but nothing about PMX
or so, and therefore the OpusOne (this is the name of my project, I
forgot to mention it before) could not be WYSIWIG when using PMX.
> Do you have a homepage with screenshots on it ? :-) I'd really like to see
> the GUI :) (and the above question is obsolete, you are using MUI)
Not yet, but I can create some in a week or so...
> My System is A4000/040/40 28 MB RAM (yes 28 :), MUI (don't know which
> version but quite recently), PasTeX, MusiXTeX up to now, installing
> OpusTeX is no problem (except when it costs something... I'm out of money
> for at least 1 year)
OpusTeX is free, but not yet entirely finished set of TeX macros. It is
another branch of TeX music typesetting, grown from MusiXTeX, well
optimized (no french relicts, twice faster), with excellent gregoriant
chant, PostScript slurs, ties and crescendos ... (end of advertisement).
Andreas Egler is working on it (at least he did, I haven't seen a new
release for a couple of months). By 'unfinished' I mean that the macro
names and even the basic ideas are not granted to be definitive, it's
still a beta-version. But IMHO better than MusiXTeX...
However, OpusTeX code is so similar to MusiXTeX, that simple replacement
proggie (sed script) could do the conversion between them, except some
features the MusiXTeX does not have.
> Of course I am and I know that some others are, too. With UAE tested,
> nearly everyone should be able to use it. It would be good then to
> be able to safe the file as TeX-File so I can compile it under Linux
> (which would be faster..)
No problem, the TeX files are compatible anywhere...
About porting:
Major part of this program is the GUI and it's pretty hard to port - you
have to know a lot about both source and target system. I do not.
Besides, I am not willing to give away the source - I still did not drop
off the idea to make OpusOne a (bit) commercial product and get some
money from the two (and probably more) years I spent on it...
If the things will go well, the resulting program will be as powerful as
Encore for example, with better output and much more effective user
interface.
At least I hope...
Bye,
Stanislav Kneifl.
