SIMONS, DON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>People generally are far more likely to post their problems and
>questions than to go out of the way to praise something. It's a
>little like the evening news.
This pretty much describes me at the moment.... BUT anyway... THANKS DON,
and THANKS, Dirk!
It is true that we often neglect to express appreciation for all the
benefits these ones have brought to our previously more labor intensive and
complicated world.
On first learning MusiXTex, I was quite excited at the prospects of the
package... something I had always wanted to be able to do... "typeset music
score." However, the initial excitement soon gave way to the overall hard
work of typing all that specialized text. I tried more generalized macros
for the often repeated things, with enough success to keep me going, only to
again face the fact that I could not ever (it seemed) make the macros
generally usable enough for all applications (I had in mind) and I was
always struggling with the general problem of organizing all these macros so
I could even recognize where they could be found, the next time around.
Believe me... PMX and then M-Tx are a breath of fresh air! Although I have
not had time to typeset the grand designs of my imagination, I am now able
(or should I say, enabled) to take an hour on a Sunday afternoon and crank
out that special variation that the choir needs for rehearsal that night, or
sketch out an instrumental obligato part right out of mind onto the printed
score. This I could not do with just MusiXTex.
About complicated systems... Consider what a typical Windows 95 system goes
through just to bring you a reasonable (??) graphical user interface... I
think that the whole Windows operating system is an order of magnitude more
fragile and complicated than the whole parade of M-Tx to Tex lineup. The
whole thing is a house of cards anyway... Be thankful for every successfully
printed page.
"It is now safe to shut off your computer."
Thanks again to Don, Dirk, Daniel, Werner, and all those who patiently
answer my questions when I ask. Bach should have had it so good!
Regards,
Joel Hunsberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
