Wilfried: Please check out the extension libraries musixplt.tex and musixtmr.tex for models.
Bob T. On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 10:14 AM Wilfried Lingenberg < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > For the second time I have the chance to prepare a commercial edition with > MusiXTeX, this time even for one of the great and well-known publishers. > They asked me, though, whether I could provide all text fields in the score > in Garamond font. I first thought it should be possible; I have published a > whole book in LaTeX's EB Garamond, so I know I have all necessary files on > my computer. However, it turned out more than difficult. Solutions I > considered, unsuccessfully, were the following: > > 1. Use LaTeX instead of Plain TeX: Seems impossible. I need postscript > slurs, hairpins, and beams, and I could not find a way to achieve the > necessary conversion chain "dvi -> ps -> pdf" using LaTeX (pdflatex or > Xelatex). > > 2. Accessing fonts directly from Plain TeX: Nothing worked. > > 2.a) Searching the tfm directories on my harddrive for fontnames that hint > to Garamond and trying them via "\font\testfont=...": Works only for the > usual suspects such as Palatino, Times New Roman, and Helvetica. In all > other cases I get error messages of different kinds. > > 2.b) Looking up source codes of LaTeX in order to find the routines for > font > selection, hoping to be able to adapt them to plain TeX solutions: Nope. I > was not even able to find something like a LaTeX source code. (My idea was > that LaTeX was written using plain TeX language, but I may be quite > mistaken > about this.) > > 2.c) In online discussions from the 90s and 2000s I found references to > TeX's introducing "NFSS", the "New font selection system". This seems to be > basically what is in use in LaTeX until today, but when it was introduced, > it was announced explicitly for use in LaTeX AND Plain TeX. However, I was > not able to find examples, macro definitions, or anything which would make > NFSS accessible from Plain TeX. If NFSS for Plain TeX exists it might be > the > solution for my problem, but I was not even able to find certain proof of > its existence ... > > 3. Creating all texts ("cresc." etc.) in Garamond in a different file, > cutting them out as graphics, and use \includegraphics: Never worked, > graphicx.tex seems fundamentally incompatible with musixtex. (Would be a > hell of a lot of work, too.) > > Ideas, solutions, workarounds anyone? > > Wilfried Lingenberg > > > > ------------------------------- > [email protected] mailing list > If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >
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