Hello MusiXTeXers, a new version of musixser (0.2) has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.gmd.de/music/musixtex/add-ons/, also accessible via the WWW page http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/. The major enhancement compared to the first version is that it's now possible to typeset arbitrarily long scores without exceeding TeX's memory limitations. (The first version was already meant to do that, but actually it didn't ...) REMINDER -------- musixser (MusiXTeX SERial input) is a small TeX macro collection - meant as an add-on to MusiXTeX - which changes MusiXTeX's coding style from chord or "column" oriented to voice oriented. Each voice of a score (which nevertheless is allowed to contain chords) is entered as a separate "thread" of musical events, thus imposing a polyphonic flavour on music coding. musixser is no MusiXTeX preprocessor like PMX or M-Tx. It neither makes any layout decisions nor saves any typing work; it merely rearranges the input and passes everything over to MusiXTeX. The main benefits of using it - apart from the more "intuitive", polyphonic coding - are: - repeated music structures (like voice-wise ostinato patterns) can be entered in a code-sharing manner (i.e. coded once, called multiple times) - much easier editing: voice-wise copying and pasting, rearranging and excluding of single or multiple staves and voices in order to use musixser, you should get the following files: musixser.tex = the macro package itself musixser.doc = some quick-and-dirty documentation gloria.tex = a brief example score, taken from a well-known french Christmas song All kinds of comments are welcome. Regards, Rainer
