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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 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5b29906117c --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-music.html @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +<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MusicTeX has been superseded by its successor MusiXTeX, which is +a three-pass system (with a processor program that computes values for +the element spacing in the music), and achieves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’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’ +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="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/abc2mtex.zip">support/abc2mtex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/abc2mtex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/abc2mtex/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>M-Tx</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mtx.zip">support/mtx</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/mtx.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/mtx/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>midi2tex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/midi2tex.zip">support/midi2tex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/midi2tex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/midi2tex/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>musictex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musictex.zip">macros/musictex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musictex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/musictex/">browse</a>) + +<dt><tt><i>musixtex (Taupin’s version)</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/taupin.zip">macros/musixtex/taupin</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/taupin.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/taupin/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>musixtex (Egler’s version)</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/egler.zip">macros/musixtex/egler</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/egler.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/musixtex/egler/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>mutex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/mtex.zip">macros/mtex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/mtex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/mtex/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>pmx</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pmx.zip">support/pmx</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pmx.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/pmx/">browse</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> |