On Thu, 12 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday, May 12, 2005 at 7:51:15 PM, you wrote:
(3) It's quite courageous of you to start learning musixTeX with coding in straight musixTeX. You should by all means get familiar with PMX: it simplifies the use of musixTeX enormously (and that's an understatement).
That depends, though, on the types of scores you want to create. PMX, for perfectly understandable reasons, allows you to set only two voices per staff. To add a third voice (assuming you want independent stems, which, in the case of a three-voice Bach fugue for solo violin transcribed for guitar), you need to resort to inline TeX -- in other words, you need to learn raw MusixTeX in addition to PMX.
Of course you are right about that. But this whole thread started out as help for a newbie -- so I'll rephrase: "Its quite courageous to start your first steps in musixTeX with 3-voice per staff music -- if you like that better ;-)
I've always done all my typesetting in raw MusixTeX for precisely
this reason. In the end it's quicker than learning how to use the preprocessor.
I strongly disagree with that statement! (cf. your next comment) ...
BTW, re courage: Way back when, and with a fair bit of help from this list, I not only ventured into straight MusixTeX, I also did it with no prior knowledge of TeX (or any other programming language). Given half a brain and sufficient attention span to RTFM, it can be done. :)
I started out in musixTeX _exactly_ as you did [well, not quite: even further back, I spent my time with FORTRAN 66 ;-( ], and its that experience with leads me to the opinion opposite to yours.
Well, I am somewhat split on that one. On the one hand, a stronger warning is certainly called for; nowadays LaTeX with its myriad of contributed packages has become so sophisticated that hardly anyone I know (with your honorable exception!) uses straight TeX for any other purpose than writing packages for LaTeX. So it happens all the timeEva Jaksch
... who's wondering whether the "Writing/Processing MusixTeX files" section of the HOWTO should be modified to include a more emphatic note to the effect that Thou Shalt Not Use LaTeX to process MusixTeX scores or the Mysterious Error Messages From Hell Shall Smite Thee, or something...
that someone steps into that trap.
On the other hand, there are serious possibilities of combining the layout flexibilities provided by LaTeX with the beauty of musixTeX
(cf. Dirk Laurie's package txlatex, in particular). I would not like
to see people discouraged completely from using these tools. So a
warning in less biblically strong words might be called for.
ccn.
PS: discussing such issues with you, Eva, is always a pleasure, as
they always have good, and practically useful, consequences!
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