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This is MusiXTeX, version 1.35 (2021-08-30).
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MusiXTeX is a TeX-based system for typesetting music.
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The main author was Daniel Taupin, who died in a climbing
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accident in 2003; other authors credited in the MusiXTeX
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manual are Andreas Egler and Ross Mitchell. MusiXTeX is now
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being maintained by
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Don Simons dsimons(at)roadrunner(dot)com
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Hiroaki Morimoto CQX05646(at)nifty(dot)com
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Bob Tennent rdt(at)cs(dot)queensu(dot)ca
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The package includes
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+ Postscript slur support, due to Stanislav Kneifl
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+ musixlyr support for lyrics, due to Rainer Dunker
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+ musixcrd support for chord symbols, due to Robert Hennig
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+ support for music text in Palatino, Helvetica, Times
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and EC fonts
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+ several other extension packages
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+ a script musixflx.lua for the 2nd-pass processing
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+ a script musixtex.lua that uses pre-processors prepmx,
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pmxab or autosp, as necessary, and automates the 3-pass
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etex -> musixflx -> [pdf]etex process, possibly
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followed by calls to dvips and ps2pdf (or dvipdfm) to
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convert the output to Portable Document Format (PDF)
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+ wrapper scripts musixflx.bat and musixtex.bat for use on Windows
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MusiXTeX fonts, including both the original metafont sources
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and Type 1 versions by Takanori Uchiyama, and specialized
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fonts frenchtab and MuseJazzText have been moved to a
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separate musixtex-fonts package, which must be installed
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before using the MusiXTeX macros.
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musixtex-install.{pdf,tex} is a more-detailed version of the
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following instructions:
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To install (on TDS-compliant TeX systems):
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+ unzip mirror.ctan.org/install/macros/musixtex.tds.zip at the root of a
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texmf tree and, if necessary, update the filename database;
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e.g., texhash texmf.
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+ on Windows: move the scripts in Windows to a folder
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on the executable PATH (or add that folder to the PATH)
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+ on any Unix-like system: install symbolic links musixflx
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and musixtex in a directory on the executable PATH to
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scripts/musixtex/musixflx.lua and scripts/musixtex/musixtex.lua,
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respectively.
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Documentation for MusiXTeX and friends is installed under
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doc/generic/musixtex
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Documentation for the musixflx and musixtex scripts are in
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doc/generic/musixtex/scripts
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Many users, especially beginners, will find it easier to
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use the PMX and M-Tx pre-processors, which accept a simpler
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input language than MusiXTeX itself. Another pre-processor,
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autosp, simplifies input to MusiXTeX by automatically
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generating note-spacing commands. These pre-processor
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packages may be found at CTAN under support. Additional
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documentation, additional add-on packages, and many examples
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of MusiXTeX typesetting may be found at the Werner Icking
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Music Archive at
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http://icking-music-archive.org/
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Support for users of MusiXTeX and related software may be
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obtained via the MusiXTeX mail list at
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http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
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MusiXTeX may be freely copied, duplicated and used in
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conformance to the GNU General Public License (Version 2,
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1991, see included file gpl.txt) or (at your option) any
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later version.
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This distribution is maintained by Bob Tennent
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rdt(at)cs(dot)queensu(dot)ca.
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