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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/musicography/musicography.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/musicography/musicography.tex index 2b7981c188d..ce0777b3b78 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/musicography/musicography.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/musicography/musicography.tex @@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ {\end{tabular}\end{quote}} \usepackage[ - pdftitle={The musicography Package: Symbols for Music Writing with - pdflatex}, + pdftitle={The musicography Package: Symbols for Music Writing}, pdfauthor={Andrew A. Cashner}, pdfsubject={LaTeX package}, pdfkeywords={LaTeX, symbols, music, musicology, humanities} ]{hyperref} @@ -27,18 +26,19 @@ {\nolinkurl{andrewacashner@gmail.com}}% }% } -\date{May 28, 2019} +\date{January 29, 2020} \begin{document} \maketitle -Font packages for \code{pdflatex} only provided a limited range of musical -symbols. +Most \LaTeX{} font packages and freely available fonts only provided a limited +range of musical symbols. The \code{lilyglyphs} package uses Lilypond's fonts, but requires \code{lualatex}. This package makes available the most commonly used symbols in writing about -music in a way that can be used with \code{pdflatex} and looks consistent and -attractive. +music in a way that looks consistent and attractive. +It is especially useful for \code{pdflatex} but also works alongside Unicode +fonts with \code{xelatex}. It includes accidentals, meters, notes of different rhythmic values, and automatic formatting of figured bass. @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ This package builds on the approach used in the \code{harmony} package, where the symbols are taken from the MusiXTeX fonts. But it provides a larger range of symbols and a more flexible, user-friendly interface written using \code{xparse}. +The package is meant to work hand-in-hand with my \code{semantic-markup} +package, and overrides some of its music-symbol commands with better +alternatives. \tableofcontents @@ -193,6 +196,9 @@ See \verb|\musSymbol| and \verb|\musAccidental| in the code listing below. \section{Changes} \begin{itemize} + \item[2020-01-29] Reduced stack gap for \verb|\musFig| + \item[2019/11/24] Fix \verb|\MeterCThreeTwo| so that numbers are stacked + and aligned correctly \item[2019/05/28] Bux fixes and new features, especially figured bass \begin{itemize} \item Fix issue 1 on Bitbucket, thanks to Christian Mondrup |