On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Manuel Molina y Vedia wrote:
Good morning. I am quite new around here, so please excuse any
clumsiness in trying to communicate.
Every one of us has once been around for the first time, so there's no
need to feel clumsy or , in fact, apologize ...
When I try to install musixflx.pkg, after "succesfully" completing the
process everything just dissapears and no program has been installed.
Am I missing something?
I work with an "intel Mac" with OS 10.4.8
Can anybody help?
I think you have 2 problems. The first is possibly the more serious one,
and being no expert on this at all, the only help I can give you is to
give you a place to look.
(1) you are working with a MAC. As far as I know, there
exists no prefabricated versions of the MusiXTeX software for
the MAC(technical jargon: no 'executables'), so 'installing'
means compiling at least some of the MusiXTeX software,
(musixflx, in particular) -- that may be some work! You
should by all means check
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/indexmt6.html
There you will find SOME instructions, at least on how to
compile the musixflx program on a MAC;
(2) Above all, you need a working TeX installation! If you
DONT have one,
---------------------------------------------
I know so little about the MAC that I dont even know
whether a usable TeX system exists; but that can
be found out quickly)
--------------------------------------------- you
you might as well give up trying to use MusiXTeX right now;
it will be simply TOO much work and hassle/frustration!
If you do have a TeX system, you can start building on
that, reading some of the other info given above, in
particular
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixwinstall.pdf
This is a VERY readable manual for the Windows community;
with some bravery (and give and take) you may be able to
make sense of some of the info there (just don't take any
of the instructions literally; they wont apply to the MAC
directly!).
Once you have gotten that far, you should try to run some
sample MusiXTeX source, before trying to write one
yourself. I will be happy to send you one (nice and
short), should decide to embark on this adventurous trip.
(3) And when you have gotten to the point where you see your
first score printed out on your printer, it would be
wonderful if you could write down a report of your
experiences and send it to the TeX Music users' mailing
list: it will be invaluable to others after you!
(4) after you have come so far and might want to switch to
an easier life style, consider learning about PMX:
http://icking-music-archive.org/software/pmx/pmxccn.pdf
You will need to compile PMX yourself for the MAC as
well; but if you've come so far, you will also manage
that.
And dont forget: there are lots of people willing to help you
further on any of the above steps!
Good luck.
--
.................................................................
Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones:
Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427
Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2422
Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869
D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36
Fax: 346 7872
E-mail: noack at itp.uni-bremen.de or ccnoack at mailaps.org
WWW-page: www.itp.uni-bremen.de/~noack
.................................................................
_______________________________________________
TeX-music mailing list
[email protected]
http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
