CTAN Update: musixtex
In this package, the C program musixflx.c and platform-dependent musixtex scripts have been replaced by Lua scripts; these can be processed using texlua on any platform supported by luatex.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musixtex . More information is at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/musixtex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
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..
| Package | MusiXTeX |
| Version | 1.38 2024-03-29 |
| Maintainer | Jean-Pierre Coulon Hiroaki Morimoto Don Simons Bob Tennent Olivier Vogel Andreas Egler (inactive) Ross Mitchell (inactive) Daniel Taupin (deceased) |