Chu ChooChoo wrote > - how can i set my computer(windows os) to use musixtex ?
First you must have a working version of TeX. Installing TeX is difficult but lots of people have done it. We are working on a step-by-step "HowTo," but until that is ready, your best bet is to go to the MikTeX homepage at http://www.miktex.org/ . Installing TeX is the hard part. You should be certain that you can process and print ordinary text documents with your TeX setup before trying to set up MusiXTeX. Setting up MusiXTeX simply means copying the MusiXTeX macros and fonts to the right directories, and then telling TeX how to find them. If the Windows "HowTo" isn't ready yet when you get to this point, you can refer to the one we already have for Linux at http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/musixtex/musixtex-for-unix.h tml . The directory structures used by MikTeX and by the Linux version (teTeX) are very similar. > - and if i want to implement the "parser" to parse the > musixtex file. I'm not sure I understand this request. Maybe you just mean the TeX program. As I said, installing TeX is the hard part. The musixtex file is just a TeX input file containing commands that cause a page of music to be typeset. When processed by the TeX program it produces a "device-independent file" or .dvi . That is in turn processed by any one of a number of different programs depending on whether you want to view it on screen, create a postscript file, create a PDF file, or print it to some other sort of printer. If you have problems along the way, please post them to the TeX-musix mailing list. --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
