I am using a lot TeX for choral music, and I'm afraid to say that for Gregorian 4-lines neumes OpusTeX is fairly better than MusiXTeX because of the treatment of text. In fact, textless Gregorian Chant does not exist -- and from this point of view the manual is right as it says that using MusiXTeX for Chant is nonsense :-)
As far as neumes are concerned, there was a good experiment (see the archives) to reproduce Hildegard's neumes. Basically, one should have the time and patience to design a set of chars reproducing at least St.Gallen and Metz (= Laon) neumes -- they are the standard requirement for a basic performance of Gregorian Chant; see for example the Graduale Triplex. I do not have the competence necessary for this job, unfortunately, but this would be a great step in musical typesetting. g. -- Guido Milanese Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua, Genova, Italy Homepage: http://www.arsantiqua.org ****GAUDETE IN DOMINO SEMPER**** _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
