Conference napalm::commusic_v1

2131.0. "MTEX - music typsetting system" by DECNIX::HERGT (Paul L. Hergt, SSGBPM, ZK03-3/Y25, 381-0813) Fri Sep 29 1989 12:11

Is there someone who might make this package available to the
net.  I don't have FTP access to anything.  If someone could tell
me how to get it, send mail.

Paul
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Date: 9 Sep 89 11:08:11 GMT
From: Francois Jalbert <[email protected]>
Subject: MTEX User's Guide
To: [email protected]

There has been some talk in the last few months about the music 
typesetting set of macros MTeX. Since I came across that package last 
April, I have looked somewhat into it. I would like to share my findings 
with all of you people out there. 

MTeX can handle single-staff music with one or two voices. It can also 
put text below the staff, and knows about most accents that go above 
notes, or simply above the staff. However, it cannot deal with multiple-
staffs, or with notes of variable size. The current version is only 0.92 
and one can wonder if a version 1.0 ever saw the light of day. I am 
still hoping one day to finally manage to contact the authors. So far, 
no luck in my attemps. 

I immediately saw last April the potential of this system which happened 
to answer exactly my modest needs. Unfortunately, the brief document in 
german enumerating the available macros was the only documentation 
available. I felt the need for a more complete user's guide still 
remained unanswered, and so I volunteered to give it a try. 

The guide (Version 1.1) has been around for some time and is about 40 
pages long. Among other things of interest, Appendix C lists several 
errors I already have found in MTeX. I also generated several standard 
series of fonts which accompany the guide. The whole MuTeX package 
(MTeX+Guide+Fonts) can be FTPed from the following three locations 

       stolaf.edu      130.71.128.1    pub/MuTeX.tar.Z
       yale-zoo-suned.arpa (suned.zoo.cs.yale.edu) 128.36.21.1
       cs.ubc.ca       128.189.97.5    src/MuTeX/MuTeX.tar.Z (slow)

If you plan on making this package available for FTP at your site, I 
would appreciate you letting me know your coordinates and the path to be 
used for retrieving MuTeX. I plan on keeping updating the list of these 
sites in the Preface of the forthcoming versions of this guide. 

                                     Francois Jalbert
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                                     [email protected]

MuTeX.tar.Z is now available as DECWRL::"pub/TeX/MuTeX.tar.Z".

- Terry