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This is musixtex-fonts version 2.0 packaged 2021-08-30.
It contains all of the font-related files for MusiXTeX,
including both the original metafont sources and Type 1
versions by Takanori Uchiyama, and the specialized frenchtab
and MuseJazzText fonts that have been moved from the
musixtex packasge.

The main author of MusiXTeX was Daniel Taupin, who died
in a climbing accident in 2003; other authors credited in
the MusiXTeX manual are Andreas Egler and Ross Mitchell.
MusiXTeX is now being maintained by

Don Simons dsimons(at)roadrunner(dot)com
Hiroaki Morimoto CQX05646(at)nifty(dot)com
Bob Tennent rdt(at)cs(dot)queensu(dot)ca

musixtex-fonts-install.{pdf,tex} is a more-detailed version
of the following instructions:

To install (on TDS-compliant TeX systems):

 + download "tex-archive"/install/fonts/musixtex-fonts.tds.zip where
    the preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirror.ctan.org

 +  unzip the archive at the root of a texmf tree and, if necessary,
    update the filename database; e.g., texhash texmf.

 +  update the relevant font-map files; e.g., append

       MixedMap musix.map

    to the relevant updmap.cfg, and execute updmap-sys or updmap-user.

Documentation for musixtex-fonts is installed under 

doc/fonts/musixtex-fonts

The font file frenchtab.pfb is derived from mscoreTab.ttf
by Maurizio M. Gavioli. It was obtained from

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/fonts/

and is licensed under the SIL Open Font Licence, 
Version 1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory.

The font file MuseJazzText.pfb is derived from MuseJazzText.otf
by Torsten Hämmerle and Abraham Lee. It was obtained from

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/fonts

and is licensed under the SIL Open Font Licence,  
Version 1.1; the text may be found in the doc directory.

Additional documentation, additional add-on packages, and many examples
of MusiXTeX typesetting may be found at the Werner Icking Music Archive
at

http://icking-music-archive.org/

Support for users of MusiXTeX and related software may be obtained via
the MusiXTeX mail list at

http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

MusiXTeX may be freely copied, duplicated and used in conformance to the
GNU General Public License (Version 2, 1991, see included file gpl.txt).

This CTAN distribution is maintained by Bob Tennent
rdt(at)cs(dot)queensu(dot)ca.