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diff --git a/macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/frontmatter.tex b/macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/frontmatter.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..42d4e645c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/musixtex/doc/musixdoc/frontmatter.tex @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +\title{\Huge\bfseries\musixtex\\[\bigskipamount] +\LARGE\bfseries Using \TeX{} to write polyphonic\\or +instrumental music\\\Large\itshape Version 1.29} +\author{} + + +%\author{\Large\rm Daniel \sc Taupin\\\large\sl +% Laboratoire de Physique des Solides\\\normalsize\sl +% (associ\'e au CNRS)\\\normalsize\sl +% b\^atiment 510, Centre Universitaire, F-91405 ORSAY Cedex\\\medskip +% \\\Large\rm Ross \sc Mitchell\\\large\sl +% CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research,\\\normalsize\sl +% Private Bag No.1, Mordialloc, Victoria 3195,\\ Australia \\\medskip +% \\\Large\rm Andreas \sc Egler\\\large\sl +% (Ruhr--Uni--Bochum)\\ Ursulastr. 32\\ D-44793 Bochum} +\date{Revised \today} +\maketitle +\vfill +\thispagestyle{empty} +\begin{flushright}\it +If you are not familiar with \TeX{} at all, I would recommend\\ +to find 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.\\[\medskipamount] +But, once you master it\ldots\\[\smallskipamount] +Hans {\sc Kuykens} (ca.~1995) + +\vspace*{4ex} +In my humble opinion, that whole statement is obsolete.\\[\smallskipamount] +Christof\/ {\sc Biebricher} (2006) +\end{flushright} + +\clearpage + +\pagenumbering{roman}\setcounter{page}{2} + + +\vspace*{20ex} +\begin{quote} +\musixtex{} may be freely copied, duplicated and used in conformance to +the GNU General Public License (Version 2, 1991, see included file {\tt +copying})\footnote{Thanks to the Free Software Foundation for advice. See +\href{http://www.gnu.org}{\underline{\tt http://www.gnu.org}}}. + +You may take it or parts of it to include in other packages, but no packages +called \musixtex{} without specific suffix may be distributed under the name +\musixtex{} if different from the original distribution (except obvious bug +corrections). + + Adaptations for specific implementations (e.g., fonts) should be provided as +separate additional \TeX\ or \LaTeX\ files which override original definitions. + \end{quote} + +\clearpage + +\chapter*{Preface} +\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface} +\musixtex\ was developed by Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell and Andreas +Egler, +building +on earlier work by Andrea Steinbach and Angelika Schofer. +Unfortunately, Daniel Taupin, the main developer, died all too early in a 2003 +climbing accident. The \musixtex\ community was shocked by this tragic and unexpected +event. You may read tributes to Daniel Taupin that are archived at the +\href{http://icking-music-archive.org}{\underline{Werner Icking Music Archive}} (WIMA\index{WIMA}). + +Since then, the only significant update to \musixtex\ has been in version 1.15 (April 2011) which +takes advantage of the greater capacity of the e\TeX\ version of \TeX. +This manual +is the definitive reference to all features of +\musixtex\ version~1.29. + +Novice users need not start here. +Most +music typesetting tasks can be accomplished entirely by using the \textbf{PMX} +(for instrumental music) or \mbox{\textbf{M-Tx}} (for vocal music) +preprocessors to generate the \musixtex\ input file, relieving the user of +learning any of the commands or syntax of \musixtex\ itself. It is only +for out-of-the-ordinary constructions that one must learn these details in order +to insert the necessary \musixtex\ commands into the preprocessor's input file +as so-called inline \TeX. + +Advanced users might +want to use \verb|autosp|, another preprocessor. It simplifies +the production of \musixtex\ scores by automating the choice of +note-spacing commands; see Section~\ref{autosp}. + +It is possible to create inputs for \musixtex, \textbf{PMX}, \mbox{\textbf{M-Tx}} or +\texttt{autosp} using any text editor, such as \verb|notepad| or \verb|vi| or +\verb|emacs|. Currently there is no graphical user interface for +generating input files, other than \TeX-oriented integrated +graphical development environments such as \TeX Works. + +The \href{http://icking-music-archive.org/software/indexmt6.html} +{\underline{Werner Icking Music Archive}} contains excellent and detailed +instructions for installing \TeX, \musixtex{} and the strongly recommended +preprocessors \textbf{PMX} +and \mbox{\textbf{M-Tx}} on +\href{http://icking-music-archive.org/software/htdocs/Getting_Started_Four_Scenar.html#SECTION00022000000000000000} +{\underline{Linux/\unix}}, +\href{http://icking-music-archive.org/software/htdocs/Getting_Started_Four_Scenar.html#SECTION00021000000000000000} +{\underline{Windows}} and +\href{http://icking-music-archive.org/software/htdocs/Getting_Started_Four_Scenar.html#SECTION00023000000000000000} +{\underline{Mac OS}}. +See +\href{http://icking-music-archive.org/software/htdocs/Introduction.html#SECTION00012000000000000000} +{\underline{this}} +page at WIMA for documentation of +\textbf{PMX} and \mbox{\textbf{M-Tx}}. + +\begin{flushright} +Oliver Vogel\\ Don Simons\\ Andre van Ryckeghem\\ Cornelius Noack\\ +Hiroaki Morimoto\\ +Bob Tennent\\ \today +\end{flushright} + +\clearpage + +\makeatletter +\renewcommand\tableofcontents{% + \if@twocolumn + \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn + \else + \@restonecolfalse + \fi + \chapter*{\contentsname + \@mkboth{% + \contentsname}{\contentsname}}% + \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Contents} % added by RDT + \@starttoc{toc}% + \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi + } +\makeatother + + +%\begin{small} +\tableofcontents +%\end{small} + +\clearpage +\setcounter{page}{1} +\pagenumbering{arabic} +\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{page}} |