Downloading and Installing

If you don't already have them, you need to get TeX, MusiXTeX, and Perl. You can get them off of a CD, from your favorite download site, or, if all else fails, go to the websites at http://www.math.upenn.edu/TeX.html, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/Welcome.html, and http://perl.com/perl. Install these, following the instructions for your platform.

Then get neumes.mf and hld2mtex from here. You'll need to put `hld2mtex' into a directory that's in your path, and you may need to make it executable. You should put `neumes.mf' into the tex directory structure, perhaps into the same directory where the musix mf files are. Then you may need to run a command called `mktexlsr' to let tex know where everything is.

To test things out, download alleluia.hld from the previous page, and type:

hld2mtex alleluia.hld
tex alleluia.tex
dvips alleluia.dvi

If all goes well, you'll end up with a page of music on your printer.

If you'd like to grab all of the bits and pieces that I've made in one fell swoop, you can get either a zipped or tarred file. This includes the neumes.mf font and the hld2mtex script, along with these html pages and the transcriptions that I've done thus far.

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