>|Bob, thanks for the explanation. Would it make sense to ask the MikTeX >|people to also include musixflx.lua in the package? I suppose I should >|also consider including it and the modified version of musixflx.exe >|in musixtex.zip (after I verify they don't give me any problems). Does >|anyone have any objections?
Don: I just installed MikTeX-2.9 on a new Windows 7 box. I installed the musixtex package using the package manager and ran the update wizard (always do this if there are binaries) and everything worked, including automatic installation of the musixtex-fonts package. I'm not sure why musixflx.lua wasn't found in your installation but it's definitely in the package. The musixflx.exe binary in MiKTeX isn't what I distribute at CTAN. I think that, for security reasons, MiKTeX generates its own binaries which probably won't work on any other system. But you can certainly distribute the bat script at CTAN, which uses a technique suggested by Tomasz Luczak to find and call musixtex.lua. It's in the musixtex-texmf.zip file in scripts/musixtex/Windows Bob >|---- Bob Tennent <[email protected]> wrote: >|> >|A puzzling thing happened when I tried a clean installation of >|MiKTeX 2.9 >|> >|and latest MusiXteX (from musixtex.zip) in Windows XT. I used >|instmus.bat >|> >|with all the defaults. In testing the install, the first pass of etex >|> >|went fine. But just typing "musixflx test" from my work folder, >|I got a >|> >|message from MiKTeX telling me that musixflx.lua is missing and >|offering >|> >|to download it from a random repository. ??? Further snooping >|revealed >|> >|there were two copies of musixflx.exe, one in the MiKTeX bin >|folder and >|> >|one in my MusiXTeX tools folder. The former must have been higher >|up in >|> >|the search path; explicitly running the one in my tools folder >|did not >|> >|cause the error. >|> >| >|> >|I sure don't remember and can't figure out where the copy in >|the MiKTeX >|> >|bin folder came from, and that's the one that causes the >|problem. Does >|> >|anyone remember or know what's happening? >|> >|> MiKTeX now provides a complete musixtex stack, including musixflx, >|> which in MiKTeX is a script that calls musixflx.lua. If you don't have >|> musixflx.lua, MiKTeX will download it for you, just like any other >|> missing package. What is the "problem"/"error"? If you don't want to >|> use the MikTeX versions, just un-install them using the MiKTeX package >|> manager. But for years there have been complaints that TeX distributions >|> can't be relied on to support MusiXTeX; I suggest you at least try >|> MiKTeX's musixtex before you do that. That is, try a "clean installation >|> of MiKTeX 2.9" *before* installing the "latest MusiXteX" separately. >|> >|> Bob >|> ------------------------------- >|> [email protected] mailing list >|> If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >|http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >| ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
