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@@ -9,20 +9,27 @@ hardly ever used nowadays. Daniel Taupin took up the baton, and
developed MusicTeX, which allows the typesetting of polyphonic and
other multiple-stave music; MusicTeX remains available, but is most
definitely no longer recommended.
-<p/>MusicTeX has been superseded by its successor MusiXTeX, which is
-a three-pass system (with a processor program that computes values for
-the element spacing in the music), and achieves finer control than is
-possible in the unmodified TeX-based mechanism that MusicTeX
-uses. Daniel Taupin&#8217;s is the only version of MusiXTeX currently
-being developed (the original author, Andreas Egler, had an
-alternative version, but he is now working on a different package
-altogether).
-<p/>Input to MusixTeX is extremely tricky stuff, and Don Simons&#8217;
-preprocessor <i>pmx</i> is the preferred method of creating input
-for Taupin&#8217;s version. <i>Pmx</i> greatly eases use of
-MusixTeX, but it doesn&#8217;t support the full range of MusixTeX&#8217;s
-facilities directly; however, it does allow in-line MusixTeX code
-in <i>pmx</i> sources.
+<p/>MusicTeX has been superseded by a further development called
+MusiXTeX, which is a three-pass system (with a processor program
+that computes values for the element spacing in the music, and sorts
+out spaces and ties (which MusicTeX does &#8220;woodenly&#8221; &#8212; playing
+from a MusicTeX-typeset page is entirely possible, but the look of
+the slurs is very unsatisfying). Thus MusixTeX achieves finer
+control than is possible with the unmodified TeX-based mechanism
+that MusicTeX uses.
+<p/>The original author of MusixTeX, Andreas Egler, withdrew from
+development of the package; he has a further package OpusTeX (not
+on CTAN) which is focused on typesetting Gregorian chant and
+the like.
+<p/>Daniel Taupin forked his development of MusiXTeX, and his is the
+only version currently maintained (by Daniel&#8217;s successors, since
+Daniel died).
+<p/>Input to MusiXTeX is tricky stuff, and Don Simons&#8217; preprocessor
+<i>pmx</i> is the preferred method of creating input for Taupin&#8217;s
+version. <i>Pmx</i> greatly eases use of MusiXTeX, but it
+doesn&#8217;t support the full range of MusiXTeX&#8217;s facilities directly;
+however, it does allow in-line MusiXTeX code in <i>pmx</i>
+sources.
<p/>Dirk Laurie&#8217;s <i>M-Tx</i> allows preparation of music with lyrics;
it operates &#8220;on top of&#8221; <i>pmx</i>
<p/>Another simple notation is supported by <i>abc2mtex</i>; this is a
@@ -37,13 +44,13 @@ extendable to many other types of music.
MusicTeX source code.
<p/>There is a mailing list (<i>TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org</i>)
for discussion of typesetting music in TeX; it mostly covers
-MusixTeX and related systems. To subscribe, use
+MusiXTeX and related systems. To subscribe, use
<a href="http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music/">http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music/</a>
<p/>An alternative (free) means of embedding music examples into (La)TeX
documents is <a href="http://www.lilypond.org">Lilypond</a>. Lilypond is
(at heart) a batch music typesetting system with plain text input that
does most of its work without TeX. Lilypond&#8217;s input syntax is far
-less cryptic than is MusixTeX&#8217;s, and it handles much more stuff
+less cryptic than is MusiXTeX&#8217;s, and it handles much more stuff
automatically, yielding the same or better quality with less effort.
Lilypond can also produce basic MIDI output.
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@@ -52,8 +59,8 @@ Lilypond can also produce basic MIDI output.
<dt><tt><i>midi2tex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/midi2tex.zip">support/midi2tex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/midi2tex/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>musictex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musictex.zip">macros/musictex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musictex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/musictex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>musixtex (Taupin&#8217;s version)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musixtex/taupin.zip">macros/musixtex/taupin</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musixtex/taupin/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/musixtex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>musixtex (Egler&#8217;s version)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musixtex/egler.zip">macros/musixtex/egler</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musixtex/egler/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>musixtex (Taupin&#8217;s version)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musixtex.zip">macros/musixtex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/musixtex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/musixtex.html">catalogue entry</a>
+<dt><tt><i>musixtex (Egler&#8217;s version)</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/obsolete/macros/musixtex/egler.zip">obsolete/macros/musixtex/egler</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/obsolete/macros/musixtex/egler/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>mutex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/mtex.zip">macros/mtex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/mtex/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>pmx</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pmx.zip">support/pmx</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pmx/">browse the directory</a>)
</dl>