>|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: I'm slowly working toward a version 1.16 of MusiXTeX. There are a few minor bugs in musixtex.tex that have to be fixed for Daniel's method of extracting parts to work. Hiroaki has sent me fixes for some bugs in the treatment of cautionary accidentals. He's also contributed two new extension libraries for accents and dynamic marks. The difficulty with tuplet and curly will be fixed by incorporating them into musixtex.tex, with their respective author's approvals. I've extended Hiroaki's musixtmr.tex and contributed a similar library musixplt.tex for Palatino. And I've simplified the treatment of "default" CM fonts in musixtex.tex itself. Of course the musixdoc document has to be updated and I've been improving the format and typography, as well as correcting dozens of spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, obsolete facts, etc. (Did you realize that the current manual refers to \documentstyle, which has been obsolete for about 15 years?) And finally, to check that the updated font treatments are satisfactory, I've been compiling the document in Times and Palatino, as well as Computer Modern. I believe the revised document is hitting a deep bug in musixps.tex. Stanislav Kneifl has kindly asked me to send him a musixdoc.ps which exhibits the problem, and I'm hopeful he'll track it down. The production scheme in the manual is basically what I'm doing; but I can just say musixtex -x -l musixdoc where -x is a new option that invokes makeindex as an intermediate step. Of course, I'll upload a "beta" of the whole package to WIMA for comments before sending the revised package to CTAN. But FYI I've just uploaded Palatino and Times versions of the current state of the revised manual: http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixdocPlt.pdf http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixdocTmr.pdf As always, comments and suggestions are welcome. Bob P.S. Who wrote "I hate LaTeX" in a comment in musixdoc.tex? :+) ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
