MusiXTeX and Related Software

News:

• Bob Tennent has uploaded musixebgr.tex which allows replacing default Computer-Modern text fonts by EBGaramond; you may need to install the ebgraramond package.

• Bob Tennent has uploaded MusiXTeX version 1.38 to correct a \changecontext error reported by Wilfried Lingenberg.

• TeXLive 2024 has been officially released. The 2024 release provides musixtex (1.37) and pmx (3.00). Installing the latest release is recommended because older releases no longer get updates.

  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 you have enough disk space, TeXLive 2024 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 developed a package for typesetting “modern” tablature, in which notes are provided with (downward) stems and beams. This is now available as an extension library in MusiXTeX 1.37.

• Alan Munn has submitted the recorder-fingering package. The recorder-fingering package provides support for generating fingering diagrams for baroque fingering recorders. Standard fingerings are provided for recorders in both C and F, along with methods to create and display alternate fingerings for trills, etc.

  The package is available from CTAN, in TeXLive and in MiKTeX.

• Don Simons has released PMX version 3.00. This version provides an option to remove the limit of 9 on forced beams. A side benefit of selecting the option is that all beams are vectorized and 2-digit figured bass figures are allowed.

  An easy-to-install package with a zipped texmf tree, 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, and is available in MikTeX and in TeXLive 2023. Consult pmx-install.pdf for installation instructions.

• Bob Tennent has released version 1.36 of MusiXTeX. This supports accidentals for Turkish classical music (Makam), new thin accidentals, and thicker ledger lines and Postscript hairpins. It is also necessary to update to release 2023-01-11 of the MusiXTeX fonts package.

• Bob Tennent has released a minor update of m-tx to correct an uninitialized-variable bug in a source file. The bug did not affect normal usage of prepmx.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
  • Small Examples
  • Primary Documentation for MusiXTeX, PMX, M-Tx, autosp, xml2pmx and the musixtex script
  
  
• Getting Started: Four Scenarios
  • MiKTeX on Windows
  • TeXLive on a Unix-like System (Linux, Solaris, BSD, etc.)
  • MacTeX (or BasicTeX and MacTeX-Additions) on a Mac
  • Adding CTAN Packages to an Existing TeX System
  
  
• Beyond the Basics
  • Configuring TeXWorks, TeXnicCenter, TeXShop or TeXStudio
  • Problems with the Adobe PDF Reader
  • Adding Non-Distribution Packages
  • Documentation for MiKTeX, TeXLive, BasicTeX and TeXWorks
  • Add-ons
  • Betas
  
  
• More Related Software

Archive:

• Experienced users or those seeking an older file may wish to bypass this page and browse the archive. That is the only access to some older versions of current software (many past versions of MusiXTeX, useful for tracking changes), files for MusiXTeX's historical predecessors MusicTeX and MuTeX, and some other files that are not linked to from any web pages.
• This web page as of December 2012 is available here
• Current source archive for this web page.

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