Bob-- I just successfully created musixdoc.pdf from musixdoc.tex, version 1.15 dated April 2011. On the initial latex pass, tex failed to find curly.tex and tuplet.tex. I'm using MiKTeX 2.9 and I think I got musixtex through that. I seem to remember some recent mention about some .tex components getting put in strange places in the distribution and sure enough I found both curly.tex and tuplet.tex in the MiKTeX folder doc\generic\musixtex, which was not in my MiKTeX path. Once I fixed that (rather annoying!) problem, it was smooth sailing, with the following manual steps, as listed in the document itself:
latex musixdoc musixflx musixdoc latex musixdoc makeindex -l musixdoc latex musixdoc latex musixdoc dvips -e0 -t a4 -P pdf -G0 musixdoc The last step created a .ps but not a .pdf as I might have expected. I ran gsview 5.0 on the .ps and successfully generated a pdf with "convert". If there's any other info you'd care to have let me know. Personally I'd like to have a link to or copy of the version of musixdoc.tex you're using, so I can see if it's any different, and if so, whether my production scheme runs into any problems with that. That would isolate whether the problem was caused by something that changed in musixdoc.tex, or some difference in your processing scheme from mine. --Don Simons > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob > Tennent > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 7:56 AM > To: Werner Icking Music Archive > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] musixps issues > > >|I'm an idiot when it comes to TeXnical details, > > This would appear to be a Postscript, rather than a TeX, issue. I'm even more > unknowledgeable about the former than the latter. > > >|but I did notice this at line 153 of musixps.tex: > > >|% everything else is stored in PostScript variables. > >|% If you run out of the PostScript dictionary used for >|% slurs, you can > increase its size by changing the number >|% 200 in the first line of > psslurs.pro to anything >|% reasonable. (The number says how many tokens > can be >|% defined.) > > >|Did you try that? > > Yes: > > >|> I've tried increasing the size of the dictionary as >|> suggested in the > comments in musixps.tex, to no avail. > > Is 2000 reasonable? > > Bob > > >|> -----Original Message----- > >|> From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob > >|> Tennent >|> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 7:10 AM >|> To: tex- > [email protected] >|> Subject: [Tex-music] musixps issues >|> >|> I'm having > trouble with a large LaTeX document with many music extracts >|(in >|> > fact, musixdoc.tex). The symptom is that ghostscript (in any form: > >|ps2pdf, > >|gv, > >|> gsview,...) crashes. > >|> The only *consistent* workaround is not to load musixps.tex. > >|> > >|> I can workaround any *particular* crash by doing apparently random > >|things >|> unrelated to slurs etc., such as changing the font famly, > changing the >|font >|> encoding, changing the font size for the table of > contents, etc. But, >|> conversely, any small edit to the document can > suddenly make the build >|fail >|> and I have to mess around with other > changes until I can see the >|effect of >|> the edit (or view the dvi file). > >|> > >|> If I build the document without the chapter that loads musixps.tex, >|> > everything works. But if I build *just* that chapter with the standard >|> > preamble, everything works as well. This suggests some kind of >|Postscript > >|> resource (such as maximum stack size) is insufficient. I've tried > >|increasing the >|> size of the dictionary as suggested in the comments in > musixps.tex, >|to no >|> avail. Any ideas? > >|> > >|> Bob T. > >|> > >|> P.S. Stanislav Kneifl, the author of musixps.tex, says "I am out of TeX > >|> business for some time, so I am afraid I won't be of much help here." > >|> ------------------------------- > >|> [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 > >| > > ------------------------------- > [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
