Oops...the hidden .tex files were in doc\generic\musixtex\addons. > -----Original Message----- > From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don > Simons > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 5:22 PM > To: 'Werner Icking Music Archive' > Subject: Re: [Tex-music] musixps issues > > 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
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