New on CTAN: mousik
Datum: 25. August 2026 09:27:06 MESZ
Celia Rubio Madrigal submitted the
mousik
package.
Version: 0.1
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Manual music notation with TikZ
Announcement text:
The mousik package renders music scores with LaTeX. It is based on the TikZ package, and the scores are treated as drawings. The package does not try to understand the music. It provides the basic layout needed to render the score, while allowing the user to customize it further. Short commands are provided for notes, rests, slurs, accidentals, articulations, ornaments, etc., with the option to adjust their position and shape directly. This makes it most useful for short musical examples, for instance in textbooks, lecture notes, and articles. There are several other ways to write music with LaTeX, but they generally require additional programs, notation languages, or processing steps. In comparison, mousik is meant to be as simple as possible, with straightforward commands and the music written directly in the LaTeX source.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mousik More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/mousik
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
The mousik package renders music scores with LaTeX. It is based on the TikZ package, and the scores are treated as drawings. The package does not try to understand the music. It provides the basic layout needed to render the score, while allowing the user to customize it further. Short commands are provided for notes, rests, slurs, accidentals, articulations, ornaments, etc., with the option to adjust their position and shape directly. This makes it most useful for short musical examples, for instance in textbooks, lecture notes, and articles. There are several other ways to write music with LaTeX, but they generally require additional programs, notation languages, or processing steps. In comparison, mousik is meant to be as simple as possible, with straightforward commands and the music written directly in the LaTeX source.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mousik More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/mousik
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
mousik – Manual music notation with TikZ
This is a package for writing music in LaTeX. It is based on TikZ and includes staves, clefs, key and time signatures, notes and chords, rests, beams and tuplets, accidentals, articulations, slurs and ties, dynamics and hairpins, and piano notation. It uses short commands and allows the user to control the position and shape of the musical elements. Everything is written directly in LaTeX without an external music preprocessor.
| Paket | mousik |
| Version | 0.1 |
| Copyright | 2026 Celia Rubio Madrigal |
| Betreuer | Celia Rubio Madrigal |