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- FAQ 930127: Frequently Asked Questions pertaining to MusicTeX and MuTeX
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- NOTE: This is a bare bones beginning of what will constitute a more substantial
- "Frequently Asked Questions" for MuTeX and MusicTeX.
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- Please mail your contributions to this to "mutex@stolaf.edu"
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- 01 What is MuTeX?
- 02 Where can I get MuTeX and MusicTeX?
- 03 Where are the archives of MuTeX mailing list?
- 04 With MusicTeX I get notes and beams, but they are badly aligned,
- beams and slurs are offset to the right etc.
- 05 I obtained easily the .TEX files but the .PK and .TFM are wrong.
- 06 There is no documentation with MusicTeX.
- 07 I run MusicTeX on SUNOS (or some other big computer) but I have
- memory problems with MSDOS
- 08 Where's the glue? it's not clear to me when to use or not use \temps
- or just what it really does.
- 09 When and why do you really need to put \relax at the end of a line?
- 10 What are the advantages or disadvantages of using ^ instead of \sh?
- Is one more flexible, or is it just a matter of typing style?
- 11 How can I put something somewhere in the MusicTeX staffs.
- 12 I cannot print notice.tex with american paper.
- 13 How can I make triplets?
- 14 How can I offset vertically the rests, in order to avoid collision
- with beams or other notes in polyphonic music:
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- This FAQ list is kept up to date by the contributions of the members of the
- mutex mailing list. To participate in mutex and musictex discussions, you
- can subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the "mutex" mailing list at the
- address:
- mutex-request@stolaf.edu
- To send a question to the entire membership of the mutex mailing list, use
- the address:
- mutex@stolaf.edu
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- 01 What is MuTeX?
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- The MuTeX package is a set of macros allowing TeX to typeset music. It was
- written by Andrea Steinbach and Angelika Schofer, as a master's thesis at
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University. MuTeX allows you to typeset
- single-staff music and lyrics.
-
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- 01 What is MusicTeX?
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- Another powerful package which allows the typesetting of orchestral and
- polifonic music is MusicTeX, written by Daniel Taupin.
-
- The main difference between MuTeX and MusicTeX is that
- - MusicTeX deals with multiple staves (staffs?)
- - MuTeX produces a nicer output.
-
- The reason that MuteX produces nicer output seems to be that it can
- handle only single-staff music and therefore can easier put glue
- between the notes. A second reason is that it makes "real" slurs and not
- some sort of rotated brackets (braces, ...). But MusicTeX is getting
- better and better because Daniel Taupin maintains it whilst nearly
- nobody continues the development of MuTeX
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- 02 Where can I get MuTeX and MusicTeX?
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- Most up to date version of musictex:
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- rsovax.ups.circe.fr directory [anonymous.musictex]
-
- Different versions of MuTeX and MusicTeX are available from many other
- sites, including:
- ftp.stolaf.edu /pub/mutex/MuTeX.tar.Z
- ftp.stolaf.edu /pub/mutex/MuTeX_doc.tar.Z
- ftp.gmd.de /music/mutex/mutex.zip
- ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au /pub/tex/MuTeX.tar.Z
- clouso.crim.ca /pub/MuTeX.tar.Z
- sol.cs.ruu.nl /pub/TEX/mtex.tar.Z
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- MusicTeX
- ftp.stolaf.edu /pub/mutex/musictex-4.31.tar.Z
- ftp.gmd.de /music/musictex/musictex.zip
- /music/musictex/musictex-nnn.tar.Z
- alfred.ccs.carleton.ca /pub/tex/MusicTeX.tar.Z
- aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de /tex/musictex.tar.Z
- bach.cs.umb.edu /pub/tex/musictex.tar.Z
- cs.dal.ca /pub/comp.archives/musictex
- emx.utexas.edu /pub/mnt/source/tex/musictex.tar.Z
- forwiss.uni-passau.de /pub/tex/macros/musictex.tar.Z
- iraun1.ira.uka.de /tex/musictex.tar.Z
- kth.se /tex/umb/musictex.tar.Z
- wraith.cs.uow.edu.au /cache/ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/musictex.tar.Z
- qed.rice.edu /pub/musictex.tar.Z
- sol.cs.ruu.nl /TEX/musictex.tar.Z
- srawgw.sra.co.jp /.a/sranha/arch/arch/comp.archives/musictex
- srawgw.sra.co.jp /.a/sranha/arch/arch/comp.archives/music/notation/musictex
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- Other Related Stuff
- arisia.xerox.com /pub/musictexdemo.PS
- athene.uni-paderborn.de /pcsoft/amiga/tex/fonts/musictex.lzh
- nz20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de /pub/pctex/texutl/macros/musictex.lzh
- ftp.gmd.de /music/midi2tex/... midi to MusicTeX
-
- For those without FTP access, you can e-mail to:
-
- mail-server@cs.ruu.nl TEX/musictex.tar.Z
- or
-
- (Submitted by: dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold))
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- 03 Where are the archives of the MuTeX mailing list?
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- Archives for the MuTeX mailing list are available via anonymous FTP from:
- ftp.stolaf.edu:/pub/mutex/archive (actual size: 0.5 MB!)
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- 04 With MusicTeX I get notes and beams, but they are badly aligned,
- beams and slurs are offset to the right etc.
-
- Remove all unnecessary spaces, i.e. ALL (all, not most of them)
- spaces which do not follow a TeX or MusicTeX control sequence. E.g.:
- do not write \qu h | \ibu0i3 \qu b \qu c \enotes
- but \qu h|\ibu0i3\qu b\qu c\enotes
-
- \relax at the end of each line not ending with \enotes
-
- Answer thanks to TAUPIN@FRUPS51.bitnet
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- 05 I obtained easily the .TEX files but the .PK and .TFM are wrong.
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- You probably forgot to say BINARY to your ftp before GETting the binary files.
- As a rule the .TEX and .STY are ASCII, as well as the .MF. But the .PK, .ZIP,
- .TFM and (for VMS) .BCK files must be transferred in BINARY
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- Answer thanks to TAUPIN@FRUPS51.bitnet
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- 06 There is no documentation with MusicTeX.
-
- There is one, named musicdoc.tex. You may process it by plain TeX after
- installing the tfm-files from the distribution. The result is musicdoc.dvi
- -- which is in the distribution, too. Print it with you favourite dvi-driver.
- If you do not have all fonts, put dummy ones and read the text. It will not
- be beautiful, but still informative...
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- 07 I run MusicTeX on SUNOS (or some other big computer) but I have
- memory problems with MSDOS
-
- Two solutions:
- a) insert compulsory line breaks (\alaligne) and page breaks (\alapage)
- b) use Eberhardt Mattes's bigtex (btex286) (or the beta-test version
- of tex386 if you have at least a 386-machine)
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- 08 Where's the glue? it's not clear to me when to use or not use \temps
- or just what it really does.
-
- Glue occurs each time you say \barre or \temps or \alaligne or \alapage
- \temps is used to put glue between groups of notes. You can disable it
- and look how ugly it looks...
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- 09 When and why do you really need to put \relax at the end of a line?
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- Put \relax at end of lines whenever the last item is not a control
- sequence. Because in this case the spaces are swallowed by TeX as a
- final part of the control sequence. Thus I use \relax when I need
- a control sequence to swallow end of line spaces (and new line code).
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- 10 What are the advantages or disadvantages of using ^ instead of \sh?
- Is one more flexible, or is it just a matter of typing style?
-
- The ^ is used within collective coding, \sh is used outside.
-
- You may write \sh k\qu k
- or \qu$^k
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- 11 How can I put something somewhere in the MusicTeX staffs.
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- Read the musicdoc and use \zcharnote\244<pitch>\207\244<what-you-like>\207
- If you want it spacing use \charnote\244...\207\244...\207
- Within those macros you can put anything, including maths
- below, in the middle of, above the staffs. To be used inside
- tne \notes....\enotes.
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- 12 I cannot print notice.tex with american paper.
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- don't print it :-) you have an old version. New versions of
- MusicTeX contain musicdoc.dvi a LaTeX-document which fits
- on american paper.
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- 13 How can I make triplets?
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- It's already in musictex.tex, but without the `slur' you wanted. \xtuplet
- is the routine that puts a number under your beam, and the line:
-
- \def\triolet{\xtuplet3}%
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- will provide you with a number under or over your beam and it could be
- adapted for sextuplets or anything else. This will make you a nice
- triplet:
-
- \Notes\ibl0j0\triolet M\qb0{jk}\tbl0\qb0j\enotes
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- 14 How can I offset vertically the rests, in order to avoid collision
- with beams or other notes in polyphonic music:
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- Write \raise <n>\internote\ds
- or \raise <n>\internote\soupir
-
- All rests are \hbox-es, so you can prefix them with \raise <dimension>
- The <dimension> (or <n>\internote or <n>\Interligne) can be negative.
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