Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material
Hi, havnt been following this thread, just jumping in.
This link has some samples of musixtex that you could perhaps use to
get yourself familiar with it.
Else use something like noteedit to edit your music and if you want,
then you can export your music to musixtex.
HTH
Oli
Þann 2007-02-15, 18:06:05 (-0600) skrifaði Kent West:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:12:55 -0600, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> said:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > 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:
> >
>
> Looks promising, but the learning curve appears to be a right-angle.
> From page 2 of the manual:
> > If you are not familiar with TEX at all
> > I would recommend to �nd another software
> > package to do musical typesetting.
> > Setting up TEX and MusiXTEX
> > on your machine and mastering it
> > is an awesome job which gobbles up
> > a lot of your time and disk space.
> > But, once you master it...
> > Hans Kuykens
>
> I tried to find a _simple_ Step1-Step2-Step3 to go from a blank text
> file to a finished one-liner staff, but either my googling capabilities
> are inadequate, or as is typical of much Free software, the folks who
> know how to do stuff never bother to write for those who don't. (Don't
> get me wrong; I very much appreciate the efforts of the developers of
> Free software, etc; it just sometimes gets frustrating when you're
> coming in as a total newb, which I am when it comes to TeX and friends.)
>
> Thanks, though!
>
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> Kent West
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>
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