Erwin Achermann wrote:
>
> Well,
>
> It's a long time since i put OpusTex0.84 at
> ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/opustex/atwork/
> Nowadays i have no time to do musical typesetting. But as you see, i
> still am lurking on this mailing list. And when it comes to OpusTex i
> feel obliged to throw my comments in: At some point Taupin and Egler
> disagreed on the further development of MusixTeX. And Andreas Egler
> started his own development branch. When i should explain the
> differences (back then) it was first that Andreas tried to rename macros
> in a logical and 'english' way, secondly he tried to leverage the
> problems with lyrics, that's where is was involved with an initial
> proposal, third he was in contact with father Beda Szukis, who is an
> expert in gregorian chant (and by chance lives almost next to my door),
> and most of recent development effort was going into typesetting
> gregorian chant (check out http://www.muri-gries.ch/OpusTeX/). And last
> but no least there was a considerable improvement with slurs, being
> issued as native postscript drawings rather than an mf-font.
now I remember that Werner once in a private email refered to OpusTeX
drawing ties/slurs by means of postscript drawing and that he imagined
that as a possible enhancement of MusiXTeX. Do you think it would be
doable to do so by means of some sort of extra processing of MusiXTeX
code?
> Many of the
> technical problems that showed up on this mailing list were solved (or
> never appeared) in OpusTeX. I was soon very much inclined to that
> development branch, then. My judgment
>
> The last contact I had with Andreas in Dec.. 1999. I have OpusTeX v0.93
> that reflects the state of back then, but there is no documentation with
> it. I don't think that he would want that to be released to the public.
> I also don't either know whether he still reads this ML, nor do I know
> anything about his plans for OpusTeX. But i do know, that he used to
> have very limited access to the internet, and it therefor was a kind of
> a lucky event, when he replied my email.
>
> So i send this message to all his email addresses i know of in the hope
> that at least one will not bounce and in the hope that he may say
> something on plans, wishes and state of his OpusTeX.
>
> Cheers and Happy TeXing
>
> Erwin
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