CTAN update: musixtex
This is a complete makeover of what was formerly the Taupin sub-directory of macros/musixtex. This distribution is easy to install on TDS-compliant TeX systems (no installation scripts) and includes three of the most important add-on packages: for Postscript fonts, Postscript slurs, and support for lyrics. Obsolete and redundant files have been deleted. The package includes the C source for the 2nd-pass processor musixflx and a pre-compiled Windows binary.
This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/musixtex (it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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) |