On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote: > Does anybody know when Hans Kuykens's warning at the beginning of the MusiXTeX > manual was written? (... awesome job which gobbles ...) > > Of course the "disk space" part is now obsolete, but I'm just curious. Has > anybody an old, old MusiXTeX manual? Could even be from the MusicTeX times.
It is at least 10 years old. As I began with the MusicTeX program, I certainly did not chose it for the challenge of mastering an awesome job, but for typesetting notes. If I would have read the manual, I would have quit right away after reading this sentence. Luckily, I learned musicTeX from the Latex-book of Helmut Kopka (Addison Wesley) that contained a chapter about musicTeX and stated that it was no problem for the author, an absolute layman in musics, to typeset music with this program. Of course, Kopka is a TeXpert, but it was certainly not an awesome job for me either because I was already familiar with TeX. In my humble opinion, the whole sentence is obsolete. Can anyone tell me why it is untouchable? Christof _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
