Hi all,
Thank you everyone very much for your help and encouragment! It's a nice
group of people here :-)
I managed to get an older version of M-Tx to compile (mtx052-unix) - I
think the problem is only a problem for C in the latest packaging of it:
mtxC054c. Maybe mention that on the webpage? ;-) (it looks like it was
tested in the developers own environment, where the dependencies were
available).
Now, miracles of miracles, this fixed up all the problems!
It must have been the .ex files that I got from it, because they are really
quite different from the old ones I was using; and probably out of step
(incompatible!) with the rest of the LaTex and MusixTeX installation.
I think I should be able ot stop flooding the list with my "vertical
spacing" spam - many thanks for your encouraging advice, Christian,
Christof, Cornelius and Bodo. :-)
I gave myself until midnight to fix this thing up, and I only *just* made
it, literally within the last minute.
Cheers,
Brendan
PS:
One last little point... when I first did this in 1997, I wrote a little sed
script called tex2ex, which was still using today (IIRC. it's needed to
embed musixTex output within a larger document, as I am). I sent it back to
the mailing list, and within just a few days, someone wrapped it up in a
shell script, making it much easier to use! And now, I see, on the homepage,
what I guess must be another incantation of it, in C, and using a cygwin
dll! Checking the source code, about half of what it is doing is the same as
my sed script, as I guess the needs have changed. Here's the original below,
just for fun :-)
12:29am% ls -l ~/bin/tex2ex.sed
-rw-r--r-- 1 bren postg 147 Nov 21 1997
/u/postg1/bren/bin/tex2ex.sed
12:30am% cat ~/bin/tex2ex.sed
/input/ D
/nopagenumbers/ D
/startmuflex/ s_\\startmuflex__
/titles/ s_titles{[0123456789]*\.[0123456789]*}_titles{0\.0}_
/endmuflex/ D
/bye/ D
12:30am% cat ~/bin/tex2ex
sed -f ~/bin/tex2ex.sed $1.tex > $1.ex
It's a bit flawed, because it gives you a noclobber warning when you
overwrite the old ".ex", so you have to manually delete it first. hmmm...
maybe after 7 years, it's time to upgrade this too? :-D
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bodo Meissner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Typesetting music with TeX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TeX-music] increase vertical space lyrics
> Am 2004.06.04 10:55 schrieb(en) Brendan Macmillan:
>
> > I was thinking: maybe older releases of M-TX will compile OK - so I
> > should try the archives first, before putting you to trouble.
>
> Hello Brendan,
>
> if I have access to a machine with your OS (or a compatible one) it
> will take me only a few minutes to compile M-Tx.
>
> > BTW: I tried double-spacing the lyrics with the follow technique -
> > but
> > it
> > didn't affect the lyric's vertical spacing either:
> > \linespread{1.4}
>
> The lyrics lines are not typeset like lines of text in a [La]TeX
> document. I think the spacing of lyrics is affected only by the
> setlyrstrut macro which in it's default version is based on the size of
> characters ( and ) in the current font.
>
>
> Bodo
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