Re: [TeX-Music] TeX, Latex and iMac

[Graham Norton]

Dear David,






But thanks for your comment on Texhash. It seems spot on.

musixflx is a more pressing concern.




On 13/07/2009, at 4:39 PM, David Allsopp wrote:

Thanks for your reply. I am really impressed that Mac OS learned the path names of the .sty etc. files after running them initially at the same level without any intervention on my part .i.e. without any changing path names or databases. It is now running fine with the input source files no longer having to be in the same position, which was my fix for the problem of not finding the .sty files. I will get to texhash etc. later once I have learnt how to compile and run musixflx in C (or maybe run a unix version via X11) on an iMac, which I have never done. I will need to look at some development literature. I plan to write up some iMac installation notes and forward them to WIMA once I have worked out how to combine the output of pass 1 with musixflx and send its output to latex, hopefully seamlessly.

Graham Norton wrote

A. The good news is that TexMozartp3.tex (see attached) did compile
and generate the same output as in the manual  (except for the bar
numbers).
For this to work, the input file and the directory musixtex MUST be
at the same level in the parent directory. This is crucial.

the box, without any musixtex directory at the same level as the
source. I believe all that is required is to have a properly set up
installation of TeX and MusiXTeX, with a path variable set to allow

is accomplished by placing the files in the designated user input
folder or a subfolders of that, and then "refreshing the filename
database."

Not on my PC. TeXMozartp3.tex goes through just fine, straight out of execution of all the necessary binaries, and with musixtex.tex and all the musixtex fonts in folders that TeX can find. In MiKTeX, the latter

I tried putting TexMozartp3.tex  in Downloads, a complely different

WIMA downloads  elsewhere in a directory Documents/music).


that needed them in the same position. No need to modify any  path
names or a database.

directory which does not contain any musixtex software. (I moved all my Then I double-clicked on it to bring up Texshop (downloaded from CTAN) and it compiled correctly in Tex . Perhaps it was just the initial run

TeXshop should have something called a "Local Guide" (because LaTeX

FNDB (texhash is probably the command you're looking for).

recommends that all distributions have a document called that) which should explain where to put custom packages like musixtex and how to refresh the

C. I note that doc/musixdoc.tex (which I cannot latex)

When I first tried to latex it (not tex; it's a LaTeX file), latex

from the musixtex.zip and put it in my user tex input folder,
refreshed the filename database, and the file compiles just fine.

complained that it couldn't find backgrnd.sty. So I grabbed that file

No complaints about not being able to find backgrnd.sty ; it stops
with

!no room for a new count

(this message means TeX has run out of a particular kind of memory)


lines of the log should be roughly:

This is [pdf]TeX, Version 3.1415926[-1.40.9] ("the name of your
distribution")
**musixdoc
entering extended mode


limit.

It sounds like your TeX distro is possibly not using e-TeX - very near the top of the file, is there the line "entering extended mode". The first three Either that or it's possible that you're using a newer version of LaTeX which has used slightly more memory and so pushed the documentation over the

On the console window, I get

This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
\write18 enabled %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode

.....

See the attached log file (curiously different from the console log file) it goes to line 3272.

musixdoc.log
Description: Binary data

l 400 \newcount\nofMPsegements

Unfortunately the log file is different and I cannot past the console
errors.

<snip>

D. Including

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{musixtex}

....

\end{document}


directory (i.e. at the same level).

Unfortunately it still won't complete, complaining:

!I can't find 'Mozartp3.aux,'
\enddocument

around the example was a good suggestion. For this to work, my input Mozartp3.tex and the directory musixtex have to be in the same parent

LaTeX files get a .aux file on pass one, even though it may be empty.


David

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Your sample is missing \begin{document} after \usepackage{musixtex}. All

Thanks for your helpful comments,

Graham
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SIlly of me to forget \begin{document} .... I have been using Latex for nearly 20 years!!