> From: "Henk Metselaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:39:15 +0200
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> I understand a preprocessor can assist me here. Currently I just
> want to write out sheet music for my instrument, trumpet. Which
> pp should I use, then and where can I get it?
http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ offers MusiXTeX and related software,
some add-ons, and other related material
http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores/ offers a lot of sheet music most
generated with MusiXTeX, often with PMX or M-Tx and PMX as preprocessor;
I mention this because often the source is part of the distribution
and can be used to see how others use these packages
The most often used pre-processors for MusiXTeX are PMX by Don Simons
and M-Tx by Dirk Laurie. M-Tx produces PMX code; M-Tx is based upon
Rainer Dunker's MusiXLyr; so M-Tx's power is esp. in choral music and
music for singers.
All this software and packages are mirrored from GMD's music archive to
the CTAN-servers.
You can find a lot of hints in the archive of this mailing list.
One name is missing in the above list: let's thank again Daniel Taupin,
because his MusicTeX was the first really useful TeX-based music
typesetting package after the first steps with MuTeX.
Hope this hilft -- Werner
