Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!hela!lokkur!scs From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) Subject: Re: MuTeX and multiple staffs + beams. Message-ID: <1991Apr18.232306.23032@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> Organization: Inland Sea References: <1991Apr17.115004.18065@fwi.uva.nl> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 23:23:06 GMT smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt) writes: >karl@apple-gunkies.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Karl Berry) writes: >>MuTeX's major limitation (at first glance) is that it can only typeset >>single-staff music. I'm interested in hearing about any work on >>extending MuTeX to multiple-staff music (even two would be a big >>improvement!), or, indeed, from anyone who has tried to use MuTeX at >>all. Or about alternatives to MuTeX. Or whatever. >Please post anything you get. But...there's more wrong. >Trying to live within MuTeX's limitations, I don't understand why it can >print only 1/8 beams! I REALLY need 1/16 beams; can it be extended? You two might want to look at MusicTeX, at ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.music.musictex]. I've downloaded the documentation and read it. It's quite daunting, but can handle amazingly complex stuff. I've not actually tried it or MuTeX yet. On a similar topic, I'd love to see a TeX package to do basic guitar or banjo chords with single line voice and lyrics. -- "FACT: less than 10% of the psychiatrists in the US are actually practicing cannibals." Rod Johnson