I'm struggling mightily with the musixdoc that will accompany musixtex version T.113. There are various items in there that either completely outdated (e.g. Taupin's FTP site), or of dubious value, (e.g., discussion of compatibility with MusicTeX). However, not wanting to get involved in a full editing job, I'm adopting a rather laissez-faire approach. But I would like to insert notices warning readers where they could be led astray. One such item concerns building a format file, on which Daniel went into considerable detail. I've never built a special format file for MusiXTeX and I seem to get along fine. Is there now, or has there ever been any good reason for going to the trouble of building a special format file for MusiXTeX?
It would be great if someone would volunteer to fully edit this document. I realize it's a huge job...that's why I'm not doing it. But I'm afraid novice users could get really confused by some of the stuff in there. If any potential editor wants to look at the source as it stood before I started working on it, you may be able to get it from this link: http://icking-music-archive.org/cmo/outgoing/musixtex-T113.zip --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon > Dreher > Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 2:12 AM > To: Typesetting music with TeX > Subject: Re: [TeX-music] LaTeX help wanted for new musixdoc > > > Simon Dreher wrote: > > Don Simons wrote: > > > >> I've received a proposed update to the musixtex distribution > from Olivier > >> Vogel. Christian and I are in the process of cleaning up some > loose ends > >> before officially posting it. One problem neither of us has a quick > >> solution > >> to concerns the vertical alignment of pages in musixdoc.tex. > The attached > >> pdf illustrates the problem. It was made with dvips -tletter. > > > > > > I think the documentation is designed for a4paper - put a4paper to the > > class options, and the margins look nice. In the header of musixdoc.sty > > I found the following comment: > > % american people perhaps may want to change the paper size > > Perhaps it would be better to specify the text size by fractions of > > \paperheight and \paperwidth, or at least calculate the margins with > > these values. > > By the way, using typearea (or even the whole KOMAScript > bundle) or - if > > you want to control the text sizes and margins exactly - > > Sorry, forgot to type geometry.sty > > is _highly_ > > recommended for setting smaller margins. > > Try to comment out all definitions of textwidth, margins etc. in > musixdoc.sty and use the documentclass scrreprt. Then you can try to > change the DIV-values eg. with the global option DIV15 (or some other > value). Then you can try out your settings with the class options > a4paper or letter and add some possible locations for hyphenation. And > look at the other overfull/underfull boxes warnings... > > >> The pages are > >> all too low (top margin is too big) and also the page number is > >> misplaced on > >> some pages, falling halfway off the bottom of the image. Can anyone > >> untangle > >> the mysteries of LaTeX and explain how to fix the vertical positioning? > _______________________________________________ > TeX-music mailing list > [email protected] > http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music > _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
