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-<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MusicTeX has been superseded by a further development called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 &#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
-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&#8217;s input syntax is far
-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.
-<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&#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>
-<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>
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