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+FAQ 930127: Frequently Asked Questions pertaining to MusicTeX and MuTeX
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+NOTE: This is a bare bones beginning of what will constitute a more substantial
+ "Frequently Asked Questions" for MuTeX and MusicTeX.
+
+ Please mail your contributions to this to "mutex@stolaf.edu"
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+TABLE OF CONTENTS
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+01 What is MuTeX?
+02 Where can I get MuTeX and MusicTeX?
+03 Where are the archives of MuTeX mailing list?
+04 With MusicTeX I get notes and beams, but they are badly aligned,
+ beams and slurs are offset to the right etc.
+05 I obtained easily the .TEX files but the .PK and .TFM are wrong.
+06 There is no documentation with MusicTeX.
+07 I run MusicTeX on SUNOS (or some other big computer) but I have
+ memory problems with MSDOS
+08 Where's the glue? it's not clear to me when to use or not use \temps
+ or just what it really does.
+09 When and why do you really need to put \relax at the end of a line?
+10 What are the advantages or disadvantages of using ^ instead of \sh?
+ Is one more flexible, or is it just a matter of typing style?
+11 How can I put something somewhere in the MusicTeX staffs.
+12 I cannot print notice.tex with american paper.
+13 How can I make triplets?
+14 How can I offset vertically the rests, in order to avoid collision
+ with beams or other notes in polyphonic music:
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+This FAQ list is kept up to date by the contributions of the members of the
+mutex mailing list. To participate in mutex and musictex discussions, you
+can subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the "mutex" mailing list at the
+address:
+ mutex-request@stolaf.edu
+To send a question to the entire membership of the mutex mailing list, use
+the address:
+ mutex@stolaf.edu
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+01 What is MuTeX?
+
+The MuTeX package is a set of macros allowing TeX to typeset music. It was
+written by Andrea Steinbach and Angelika Schofer, as a master's thesis at
+Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University. MuTeX allows you to typeset
+single-staff music and lyrics.
+
+
+01 What is MusicTeX?
+
+Another powerful package which allows the typesetting of orchestral and
+polifonic music is MusicTeX, written by Daniel Taupin.
+
+The main difference between MuTeX and MusicTeX is that
+ - MusicTeX deals with multiple staves (staffs?)
+ - MuTeX produces a nicer output.
+
+The reason that MuteX produces nicer output seems to be that it can
+handle only single-staff music and therefore can easier put glue
+between the notes. A second reason is that it makes "real" slurs and not
+some sort of rotated brackets (braces, ...). But MusicTeX is getting
+better and better because Daniel Taupin maintains it whilst nearly
+nobody continues the development of MuTeX
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+02 Where can I get MuTeX and MusicTeX?
+
+Most up to date version of musictex:
+
+ rsovax.ups.circe.fr directory [anonymous.musictex]
+
+Different versions of MuTeX and MusicTeX are available from many other
+sites, including:
+ ftp.stolaf.edu /pub/mutex/MuTeX.tar.Z
+ ftp.stolaf.edu /pub/mutex/MuTeX_doc.tar.Z
+ ftp.gmd.de /music/mutex/mutex.zip
+ ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au /pub/tex/MuTeX.tar.Z
+ clouso.crim.ca /pub/MuTeX.tar.Z
+ sol.cs.ruu.nl /pub/TEX/mtex.tar.Z
+
+MusicTeX
+ ftp.stolaf.edu /pub/mutex/musictex-4.31.tar.Z
+ ftp.gmd.de /music/musictex/musictex.zip
+ /music/musictex/musictex-nnn.tar.Z
+ alfred.ccs.carleton.ca /pub/tex/MusicTeX.tar.Z
+ aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de /tex/musictex.tar.Z
+ bach.cs.umb.edu /pub/tex/musictex.tar.Z
+ cs.dal.ca /pub/comp.archives/musictex
+ emx.utexas.edu /pub/mnt/source/tex/musictex.tar.Z
+ forwiss.uni-passau.de /pub/tex/macros/musictex.tar.Z
+ iraun1.ira.uka.de /tex/musictex.tar.Z
+ kth.se /tex/umb/musictex.tar.Z
+ wraith.cs.uow.edu.au /cache/ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/musictex.tar.Z
+ qed.rice.edu /pub/musictex.tar.Z
+ sol.cs.ruu.nl /TEX/musictex.tar.Z
+ srawgw.sra.co.jp /.a/sranha/arch/arch/comp.archives/musictex
+ srawgw.sra.co.jp /.a/sranha/arch/arch/comp.archives/music/notation/musictex
+
+Other Related Stuff
+ arisia.xerox.com /pub/musictexdemo.PS
+ athene.uni-paderborn.de /pcsoft/amiga/tex/fonts/musictex.lzh
+ nz20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de /pub/pctex/texutl/macros/musictex.lzh
+ ftp.gmd.de /music/midi2tex/... midi to MusicTeX
+
+For those without FTP access, you can e-mail to:
+
+ mail-server@cs.ruu.nl TEX/musictex.tar.Z
+or
+
+(Submitted by: dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold))
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+03 Where are the archives of the MuTeX mailing list?
+
+Archives for the MuTeX mailing list are available via anonymous FTP from:
+ ftp.stolaf.edu:/pub/mutex/archive (actual size: 0.5 MB!)
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+04 With MusicTeX I get notes and beams, but they are badly aligned,
+ beams and slurs are offset to the right etc.
+
+Remove all unnecessary spaces, i.e. ALL (all, not most of them)
+spaces which do not follow a TeX or MusicTeX control sequence. E.g.:
+do not write \qu h | \ibu0i3 \qu b \qu c \enotes
+but \qu h|\ibu0i3\qu b\qu c\enotes
+
+\relax at the end of each line not ending with \enotes
+
+Answer thanks to TAUPIN@FRUPS51.bitnet
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+05 I obtained easily the .TEX files but the .PK and .TFM are wrong.
+
+You probably forgot to say BINARY to your ftp before GETting the binary files.
+As a rule the .TEX and .STY are ASCII, as well as the .MF. But the .PK, .ZIP,
+.TFM and (for VMS) .BCK files must be transferred in BINARY
+
+Answer thanks to TAUPIN@FRUPS51.bitnet
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+06 There is no documentation with MusicTeX.
+
+There is one, named musicdoc.tex. You may process it by plain TeX after
+installing the tfm-files from the distribution. The result is musicdoc.dvi
+-- which is in the distribution, too. Print it with you favourite dvi-driver.
+If you do not have all fonts, put dummy ones and read the text. It will not
+be beautiful, but still informative...
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+07 I run MusicTeX on SUNOS (or some other big computer) but I have
+ memory problems with MSDOS
+
+Two solutions:
+ a) insert compulsory line breaks (\alaligne) and page breaks (\alapage)
+ b) use Eberhardt Mattes's bigtex (btex286) (or the beta-test version
+ of tex386 if you have at least a 386-machine)
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+08 Where's the glue? it's not clear to me when to use or not use \temps
+ or just what it really does.
+
+Glue occurs each time you say \barre or \temps or \alaligne or \alapage
+\temps is used to put glue between groups of notes. You can disable it
+and look how ugly it looks...
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+09 When and why do you really need to put \relax at the end of a line?
+
+Put \relax at end of lines whenever the last item is not a control
+sequence. Because in this case the spaces are swallowed by TeX as a
+final part of the control sequence. Thus I use \relax when I need
+a control sequence to swallow end of line spaces (and new line code).
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+10 What are the advantages or disadvantages of using ^ instead of \sh?
+ Is one more flexible, or is it just a matter of typing style?
+
+The ^ is used within collective coding, \sh is used outside.
+
+ You may write \sh k\qu k
+ or \qu$^k
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+11 How can I put something somewhere in the MusicTeX staffs.
+
+Read the musicdoc and use \zcharnote\244<pitch>\207\244<what-you-like>\207
+If you want it spacing use \charnote\244...\207\244...\207
+Within those macros you can put anything, including maths
+below, in the middle of, above the staffs. To be used inside
+tne \notes....\enotes.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+12 I cannot print notice.tex with american paper.
+
+ don't print it :-) you have an old version. New versions of
+ MusicTeX contain musicdoc.dvi a LaTeX-document which fits
+ on american paper.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+13 How can I make triplets?
+
+It's already in musictex.tex, but without the `slur' you wanted. \xtuplet
+is the routine that puts a number under your beam, and the line:
+
+ \def\triolet{\xtuplet3}%
+
+will provide you with a number under or over your beam and it could be
+adapted for sextuplets or anything else. This will make you a nice
+triplet:
+
+ \Notes\ibl0j0\triolet M\qb0{jk}\tbl0\qb0j\enotes
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+14 How can I offset vertically the rests, in order to avoid collision
+ with beams or other notes in polyphonic music:
+
+Write \raise <n>\internote\ds
+ or \raise <n>\internote\soupir
+
+ All rests are \hbox-es, so you can prefix them with \raise <dimension>
+ The <dimension> (or <n>\internote or <n>\Interligne) can be negative.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+