MusiXTeX

[Petr Sojka]

Subject: MusiXTeX

MusiXTeX is a new - completely new - version of music typesetting using TeX.
It is due to Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler, with a big part of the TeX
macros borrowed from Daniel Taupin's MusiCTeX.

The main difference is that it is a three pass system:
 1. Texing roughly
 2. Computing the slurs accurate sizes (by a C program, musixflx)
 3. Re-Texing beautifully.

It is a free copy software (their posting in CTANs is wished), but you
are not allowed to spread modified versions of it without the consents
of the three authors (of course changing font resolution is not a
"modification").

The distribution has the same layout as MusiCTeX and it is available at
anonymous ftp: rsovax.lps.u-psud.fr, directory [anonymous.musixtex] (beware
of the X instead of the C). Included is a 75 page doc, also provided as a
DVI and a postscript file. A "musixtex.bat" file is provided for PC, but you
can easily convert it for unix systems.

Examples are provided (mainly the same as in MusiCTeX). In some respect,
MusiXTeX is harder than MusiCTeX (less tolerant) but, once you have started,
you get beautiful scores in an easier way. As Andreas Egler said, its aim
is to provide professional typesetting quality.

                                        Daniel Taupin
                                     taupin at lps.u-psud.fr
                                     February 13th,  1995