Christian Mondrup wrote:
>
> 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?
I remember that it worked, but i also remember that it was somehow
disappointing, and i don't remember the technical details. In principle
it is surely doable in MusiXTeX too, but the devil is in the (many)
details--as you know. And the question is whether this Ansatz would be
portable to pdf too. Nowadays one would probably do something in
MetaPost which produces a subset of postscript that can be imported into
pdf too.... It was Stanislav Kneifl who implemented the ps-slur.sty. And
his work is probably also in the opustex0.84 package, as a starting
point for a wizard out there, anyone?
:)
Cheers
Erwin
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