[Tex-music] Fwd: Report on missing symbol in version 1.38 of Musixtex
-- Forwarded message - From: Sebastiano Spatola Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM Subject: Re: Report on missing symbol in version 1.38 of Musixtex To: Dearest Bob, good morning from eastern Sicily, I sincerely thank you for your kind reply. Regarding the Gregorian music code, I must inform you that I have no expertise in Gregorian music either. As far as I remember, I sent the email about how to obtain the "Guia" symbol to all the maintainers of MusixTeX (https://ctan.org/pkg/musixtex), and the response I gave here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/735465/missing-guia-symbol-in-gregorian-chant-musixgre-library?noredirect=1#comment1834165_735465 was merely a kind of challenge. At present, I do not know anyone with experience in TeX who might be willing to become the maintainer of *musixgre.tex*. I believe that, first and foremost, such a person should have knowledge of musical notes and sheet music. Personally, since I do not fully understand either sheet music or notes, I do not think that the maintainers of *gregorio.tex*, such as Élie Roux, Henry So, and Fr. Samuel Springuel, would be willing to take on this role. I remain available for anything I am capable of assisting with and send you my best regards. Sebastiano Il 05/03/2025 15:14 CET Bob Tennent ha scritto: Sebastiano: Thank you for this report. Unfortunately, there is no record of who contributed musixgre.tex in 1997 (or even earlier) and I have no expertise in Gregorian music. I suggest you find someone with some TeX expertise who might be willing to become the maintainer of musixgre.tex. That person should copy musixgre.tex to a personal directory, modify it as necessary and distribute it to other gregorian music enthusiasts. When it's tested, it should be e-mailed directly to me at my current address ( [email protected]) and I will replace musixgre.tex in the next revision of the musixtex package. I should also be advised on how Section 25.15 of the musixdoc manual should be revised. Best, Bob Tennent --- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Fwd: Report on missing symbol in version 1.38 of Musixtex
05.03.2025 14:56:51 Jean-Pierre Coulon : > "symbols available in MuisXTeX are mainly those of the 1905 standard, as > provided by Beda Szukics" Hello Sebastiano, I remember this name from the time I used OpusTeX for Gregorian chants. This was more than 10 years ago or even 20 years ago. Maybe you could ask him about the symbols. The following page contains an e-mail link. https://www.muri-gries.ch/OpusTeX/OpusTeX.html You would get this symbol in OpusTeX by using \custos. So I assume that OpusTeX uses fonts that have this symbol. As far as I remember, the license of OpusTeX might be problematic, but I don't know what license applies to the font. If Beda Szukics is the author he might be able to re-license it if necessary. I checked the linked page https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/735465/missing-guia-symbol-in-gregorian-chant-musixgre-library?noredirect=1#comment1834165_735465 This page contains references to Gregorio but no mention of OpusTeX.. Best regards, Bodo --- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
Re: [Tex-music] Fwd: Report on missing symbol in version 1.38 of Musixtex
On Wed, 5 Mar 2025, Bob Tennent wrote: Hello all. Does anyone know who contributed the extension library musixgre.tex? Here I have a printed MusiXTeX manual of 1997. it says: "symbols available in MuisXTeX are mainly those of the 1905 standard, as provided by Beda Szukics" Hope this helps :-) -- Jean-Pierre Coulon --- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
[Tex-music] Fwd: Report on missing symbol in version 1.38 of Musixtex
Hello all. Does anyone know who contributed the extension library musixgre.tex? Bob T. - Original Message - > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:50:03 +0100 (CET) > From: Sebastiano Spatola > To: "[email protected]" , > "[email protected]" , > "[email protected]" > Subject: Report on missing symbol in version 1.38 of Musixtex > > > Dear Musixtex authors, > > Bob Tennent, > Don Simons, > Hiroaki Morimoto > > I am writing to report an issue regarding your Musixtex package, specifically Version 1.38, Revised March 29, 2024. In the section 25.15.2 "Elementary symbols" on page 134, I have noticed that there is no MusixGre symbol that allows for the notation of the "Guia" symbol, which has the shape of a small virga with the stem up (either left or right). This symbol is placed at the end of the tetragram and is used to indicate the next note. > > I invite you to review the discussion posted on TeX.SE at the following link for further details: > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/735465/missing-guia-symbol-in-gregorian-chant-musixgre-library?noredirect=1#comment1834165_735465 > In addition severals link are broken in https://ctan.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/ctan/fonts/musixtex-fonts/doc/musixtex-fonts-install.pdf > > Looking forward to your response, thank you for your attention and assistance. > > Best regards, > Sebastiano --- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
