Hunsbergers wrote: >
> Although I have not posted too much this year, I have continued to use > MusiXTex, via M-Tx (primarily) as a means to provide (... not any > masterworks but,) the utility parts and pieces that one needs (frequently on > the same day it is conceived) to support a small church choir. Same for me: I often have to retype choral scores with MusiXTeX, in order to nave transpositions fit for the puclic assembly 's tessiture. > > It seems, most often, that what people REALLY want is a quick, effortless > way to just have music score appear. Very few have even considered how much > information is conveyed by this invention we call 'music score.' When they > complain that there is too much complication involved with TeX-based tools, > I simply select a small segment of a published score (any score) and ask > them to review how much is evidently communicated to a performer in order to > realize a performance of that segment. When they take a closer look at it, > they are usually able to recongize that there are many issues of pitch, > duration, expression and context that must be made clear, ... and as they > proceed, they begin to sound somewhat more complicated themselves, just > describing the score as they see it :-) > Yes: quick and dirty. But opnce the dirty draft has been done, an important question is: how to correct it, no only changing notes, but transposing parts and not all, or insert new sequences, or reproduce some parts already done with some changes, etc. Then, mouse oriented music typesetting systems are not adequate since you copy/paste not only notes but other uncotrolled features. Then, this is the advantage of a code like MusiXTeX which has a SOURCE file to be edited as a teXSource, which includes not only visible things (notes, accidentals) but also some dirty tricks to make ornaments and so on. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Taupin, 91400 ORSAY - France E-mail= mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home/fax: (33)1.60.10.26.44. Rep.: (33)1.60.10.04.13, fax (work) (33)1.69.15.60.86 _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
