Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material
Hi,
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> said:
> (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a
> Debian question.)
> I've been using OpenOffice.org to produce paper copies of songs
> written for guitar, but with all the talk about LaTeX on this list
> lately, I got to wondering if it might be a better product.
> The material looks like standard guitar tabs you'd find on the web,
> like this, from http://www.guitaretab.com/a/adam-sandler/211.html:
Package: musixtex
Description: Typeset music scores with TeX
This package contains the MusiXTeX macros, musixflex, MusiXTeX User's
Manual in LaTeX source and DVI formats, and example source MusiXTeX music
score files.
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MusiXTeX is a set of versatile and power TeX macros to typeset polyphonic,
orchestral or choral music. It allows very fine control and produces
professional printed music scores.
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Due to the important amount of information to be provided to the
typesetting process, coding MusiXTeX might appear to be awfully
complicated, especially for beginners. Therefore, it is recommended
to use MusiXTeX with some pre-processors, such as PMX and M-Tx,
available as Debian packages.
Package: musixlyr
Description: a MusiXTeX extension for handling lyrics
musixlyr is a set of TeX macros to be used with Taupin MusiXTeX
(version T.52 or later) for typesetting vocal music. Its purpose is
to compensate two drawbacks of MusiXTeX's lyrics handling:
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* Typesetting lyrics with the "native" musixtex commands \zcharnote,
\zsong etc. tends to be quite inefficient, particularly if the lyrics
have to be changed or corrected. The idea underlying musixlyr is to
separate lyrics coding from music coding and let TeX weave them
together with as little manual interference as possible. As a result
you can enter and edit lyrics (nearly) as easily as normal text.
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* musixtex has no built-in mechanism for centering hyphens between
syllables and for handling hyphenation at long melismas. This is
implemented in musixlyr following the example of engraved music.
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Author: Rainer Dunker <rainer.dunker@web.de>
Primary-site: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/indexmt6.html
manoj
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