Bob Tennent has released
version 1.35 of MusiXTeX.
This release includes a “handwriting” font from MuseScore and an extension library
musixjt.tex to use this font for all textual elements of a score, as
is traditional in jazz scores.
- Bob Tennent has released
version 1.34 of MusiXTeX.
This release includes a new extension library musixftab.tex which
supports traditional French tablature using script letters rather than numerals to specify
notes. The
\tabfnt definitions in musixtex.tex have been revised
to allow re-definition in musixftab.tex. A mini-font file
frenchtab.pfb and associated support files are included.
- Bob Tennent has released
version 1.33 of MusiXTeX.
This version improves on the tablature support: tablature notes are
now in (Helvetica) bold, tablature notes below the staff now use slashes (/) rather
than ledger lines, as is conventional in French tablature, and new commands
are provided to generate notehead-less stems above a tablature staff to specify
note duration.
Update 2021-07-07: Version 1.33a
has improved implementation of the
tablature commands: more than three "slashes" below the staff are now replaced by numbers,
and duration notes above the staff now have tiny noteheads (without ledger lines).
- Bob Tennent has released a new version of
the musixtex-fonts
package.
The type1 fonts have been regenerated, correcting glyph widths that were inconsistent
with the tfm widths.
- TeXLive 2021
has been officially released.
The 2021 release provides musixtex (1.31), pmx (2.94a 2021-01-28), M-Tx (0.63c),
autosp (2021-01-07) and, for the first time, xml2pmx (2021-02-07).
Compiled binaries are provided for many Unix-like platforms, including Linux and MacOSX, and for Windows
(but Windows users
may find
MiKTeX
to be more convenient).
Check out installation instructions here.
If your system has texlive-derived packages installed by a distribution package manager,
you should remove these before installing texlive itself.
If you have enough disk space,
TeXLive 2021 can be installed in parallel with one or more older versions,
but most users should first uninstall
an existing active TeXLive as follows:
tlmgr remove -all
This will not remove “local” or “personal” additions, provided you have not
put them into the texmf-dist tree.
Bob Tennent has corrected a minor bug in the scor2prt program in pmx-2.94.zip
and uploaded an archive
here.
- Bob Tennent has released a
new version of
xml2pmx
based on version 16 of
Dieter Glötzel's
MusicXML-to-PMX
converter.
The package currently supports Windows, MacOS and Linux platforms.
Version 0.23 of the
musixtex.lua script supports pre-preprocessing of MusicXML files.
The package is also available in MiKTeX and from ctan.org and it will be provided in TeXLive-2021.
- Bob Tennent has released version 2021-01-07 of the
autosp
preprocessor.
\Cp is allowed as an abbreviation for \Cpause.
- Don Simons has released
PMX version 2.94.
This release allows moving dots on main and chord note in 2-note tremolos,
and adds definitions of
\hbp and \hbpp to pmx.tex.
Note (2020-03-20): a bug in the spacing of accidentals has been corrected.
It is available in MiKTeX and TeXlive-2020, or
use the following:
An easy-to-install package with
a zipped texmf tree, OSX and Windows executables and a tar.gz file which can
be processed on any Unix-like system with basic GNU tools and a C compiler
is available
here.
and at CTAN.
Consult pmx-install.pdf for installation instructions.
- Bob Tennent has released a minor
update
of mtx.tex so that commands mtxAllsf and
mtxHelvetica will work as advertised. Also a new command mtxTimes (to
replace Computer Modern fonts by Times) is now supported.
Definitions of BIGfont and Bigfont in mtxlatex.sty
have been replaced. The documentation
mtxdoc has been revised accordingly.
This release is available in MiKTeX and TeXlive-2020.
- Dirk Laurie has released
M-Tx version 0.63.
It is also available from
Github.
Main changes:
- `Space` can put in optional extra space between title block and
first stave.
- Multibar rest may appear after comment lines in its paragraph. (Thanks
to Christian Mondrup for finding the bug.)
- Spurious error message when using `][` corrected. (Thanks
to Christian Mondrup for finding the bug.)
- Pickup consisting of rests allowed with multibar rest. (Feature requested
by Christian Mondrup.)
- Also recognizes `F` as doubling duration in multiplet. (Feature requested
by Christian Mondrup.)
- No longer adds an undesired duration to rests in a multiplet. (Thanks
to Christian Mondrup for finding the bug.)
This
archive
includes a zipped texmf tree, OSX and Windows executables and a tar.gz file which can
be processed on any Unix-like system with basic GNU tools and either
gcc or fpc.
Consult mtx-install.pdf for installation instructions.
- Hiroaki Morimoto has released version
0.54
of the
musixpss
package (described
in musixdoc.pdf as "Type M Postscript slurs"). This new version conforms
to the new specifications
of dvipdfm(x) and pdfTeX since TeX Live 2016 concerning
MetaPost-generated EPS files (*.mps).
The appearances of generated slurs are the same.
In case you have a too-old version of MetaPost that does not support outputtemplate,
use version 0.53.
