Hold on. Problem seems to be solved. I just made another attempt with a fontname taken from a tfm directory, and this time it worked. Don’t ask me why. But many thanks to you, Bob, for again a lighting quick response!
Best, Wilfried Von: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Bob Tennent Gesendet: Sonntag, 23. Juni 2024 16:41 An: Werner Icking Music Archive Betreff: Re: [Tex-music] Garamond in MusiXTeX? 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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