CTAN update: musixtex
Date: October 30, 2010 11:55:06 AM CEST
i was out of the office yesterday, longer than i expected (train failure
that made national news!), and wasn't able to report the following
effusion from the daemon:
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: musixtex
> Author's name: Bob Tennent
> Author's email: rdt at cs.queensu.ca
> Location on CTAN: macros
> Summary description: Sophisticated music typesetting using TeX
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The musixflx components have been updated to incorporate several minor
> bug fixes and improvements from TeXLive and teTeX.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository (about 0130 this morning).
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/musixtex.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros
since my installation seems to have happened after the catalogue
regeneration run, the (minutely) updated catalogue entry won't appear on
the web until some time overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
MusiXTeX – Sophisticated music typesetting
MusiXTeX provides a set of macros, based on the earlier
MusicTeX, for
typesetting music with TeX. To produce optimal spacing,
MusiXTeX is a three-pass system:
etex, musixflx, and
etex again. (Musixflx is a lua script
that is provided in the bundle.) The three-pass process,
optionally followed by processing for printed output, is automated
by the musixtex wrapper script.
The package uses its own
specialised fonts, which must
be available on the system for musixtex to run.
This version of MusiXTeX builds upon work by
Andreas Egler, whose
own version is no longer being developed.
The MusiXTeX macros are universally acknowledged to be challenging
to use directly: the pmx preprocessor
compiles a simpler input language to MusiXTeX macros..
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