Re: First Outing with MusixTex
On Thursday 21 June 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format.
> > I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file.
> > Hebrew characters show as '?'
> > TexLive Hebrew is installed.
> > So how do I get it to be used?
>
> Do you need some font installed like calmus (or what ever its called?)
> just my random guess. A question mark IIRC is a sign of a missing font.
>Culmus is installed. I tried switching the character set to utf8. Got Hebrew
>output fine using lilypond (but their formatting is not as good or
>configurable as cracked up to be--unless there are more expert command line
>options).
>MusixTex complains that Tex/Latex is not configured for UTF8. Neither program
>lets you choose the font explicitely. Noteedit will export to muxicXML but
>that XML is not accepted by denemo and this front-end lilypond will not read
>lilypond files!
>I am trying a latex-ucs utility from Sid. I get the following:
>Package ucs Warning: ***************************
>(ucs) You seem to have loaded inputencoding utf8
>(ucs) (LaTeX kernel UTF-8) instead of utf8x (ucs.sty UTF-8).
>(ucs) Probably you are compiling a document written for a
>(ucs) pre-august-2004 ucs.sty.
>(ucs) ***************************
>(ucs) Please use \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} instead of
>(ucs) \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}.
>(ucs) ***************************
>(ucs) If you should really want to use ucs.sty and kernel's
>(ucs) utf8.def together, use \usepackage[utf8x,utf8]{inputenc}
>(ucs) to disable compatibility mode
>(ucs) ***************************
>(ucs) Activating compatibility mode.
>(ucs) ***************************
>(ucs) on input line 26.
>If I let this proceed, it cannot find stull like \hebgimel (which I suppose
as
>a Tex command request this Hebrew character.
>Easy enough the change the \usepackage command. Question is: where it it (and
>how might I do this globally rather than placing this in individual TeX
>files)?
Made change in the individual TeX file. Still had problem with the Hebrew
character definitions, i.e.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ucs/data/uni-5.def)
! Undefined control sequence.
\u-default-1490 #1->\hebgimel
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