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From: marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot)
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Subject: Re: musictex
Summary: circlew1 --> circlew10
Keywords: musictex
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.225028.27375@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 22:50:28 GMT
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In <1991Jan10.161701@madmax.Viewlogic.COM>  Kenneth H. Cox
(kenc@madmax.Viewlogic.COM) asks:

> I'm having a really hard time getting musictex running
> (especially since there's no documentation!).  The only
> pointer I got was to run TeX on notice.tex and it bombs:
>  
>       ! Font \circlew=circlew1 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
> 
> I don't seem to have any font `circlew1' in my TeX
> distribution (from labrea.stanford.edu).

That's a typo: replace "circlew1" in file musicpln.tex by "circlew10".
That font is part of the standard distribution, I think; it also comes
with musictex. However, you do not really need it, the output it
produces is ugly. Instead, use the special fonts that come with musictex
(just ignore the error message).

There is documentation: notice.tex *is* the (16-page) documentation.
There is also a short aa_readme.text.

> Also, before it dies, it loads a file called `outputlj.tex' which
> looks suspiciously like laserjet nonsense (I have a PostScript printer).

outputlj.tex is a standard TeX file, and does not contain any
printer specific things, your printer won't have problems with it.
(In fact, if a TeX file contains printer specific things, it is
usually PostScript nonsense.)

Incidentally, I got my copy of musictex (that is Daniel Taupin's
musictex) from archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5].

						Marcel van der Goot
						marcel@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu