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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-music.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-music.html deleted file mode 100644 index 67627a7df4a..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-music.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label music</title> -</head><body> -<h3>Typesetting music in TeX</h3> -<p/>In the early days, a simple music package called MuTeX was -written by Angelika Schofer and Andrea Steinbach, which demonstrated -that music typesetting was possible; the package was very limited, and is -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MusicTeX has been superseded by a further development called -MusiXTeX, which is a three-pass system (with a processor program -that computes values for the element spacing in the music,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 “woodenly” — 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’s successors, since -Daniel died). -<p/>Input to MusiXTeX is tricky stuff, and Don Simons’ preprocessor -<i>pmx</i> is the preferred method of creating input for Taupin’s -version. <i>Pmx</i> greatly eases use of MusiXTeX, but it -doesn’t support the full range of MusiXTeX’s facilities directly; -however, it does allow in-line MusiXTeX code in <i>pmx</i> -sources. -<p/>Dirk Laurie’s <i>M-Tx</i> allows preparation of music with lyrics; -it operates “on top of” <i>pmx</i> -<p/>Another simple notation is supported by <i>abc2mtex</i>; this is a -package designed to notate tunes stored in an ASCII format -(<code>abc</code> notation). It was designed primarily for folk and traditional -tunes of Western European origin (such as Irish, English and Scottish) -which can be written on one stave in standard classical notation, and -creates input intended for MusicTeX. However, it should be -extendable to many other types of music. -<p/>Digital music fans can typeset notation for their efforts by using -<i>midi2tex</i>, which translates MIDI data files into -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 -<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’s input syntax is far -less cryptic than is MusiXTeX’s, and it handles much more stuff -automatically, yielding the same or better quality with less effort. -Lilypond can also produce basic MIDI output. -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>abc2mtex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/abc2mtex">support/abc2mtex</a> -<dt><tt><i>M-Tx</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mtx.zip">support/mtx</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mtx/">browse the directory</a>) -<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’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’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> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=music">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=music</a> -</body> |