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opustex for Debian
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Dear music lover:
Welcome to the wonderful world of music typesetting! ^_^
This is the Debian package of OpusTeX.
Hope you enjoy producing beautiful music scores with OpusTeX
and related packages! ^_^
GETTING STARTED
===============
To read the OpusTeX manual:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Copy the file /usr/doc/opustex/docopus/docopus.dvi.gz
to your favourite directory, gunzip it, then use xdvi or dvisvga
to view it;
* You might like to generate your own docopus.dvi and docopus.ps
to suit your paper size and printer resolution. For example:
$ mkdir /tmp/docopus
$ cd /tmp/docopus
$ cp /usr/doc/opustex/docopus/* /tmp/docopus
$ gunzip *.gz
$ sh Make_docopus
To print on Letter size paper, change the first few lines of
docopus.sty from:
\textheight50\baselineskip
\textwidth210mm \advance\textwidth-1.8in
to the following (or something similar). Feel free to tweak! ^_^
\textheight46\baselineskip
\textwidth8.5in \advance\textwidth-1.8in
To compile your OpusTeX source music score file (*.tex):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OpusTeX is a three-pass system. It uses an external program called
opusflex to calculate the spacing of the notes. To compile your
OpusTeX jobname.tex file, you may use:
opustex jobname.tex (This is the little script that I wrote to
run TeX ==> opusflex ==> TeX on jobname.tex)
Or, if you prefer to do it manually, try:
tex jobname.tex ; opusflex jobname ; tex jobname.tex
For LaTeX OpusTeX files, use the following instead:
tex '&latex' jobname.tex ; opusflex jobname ; tex '&latex' jobname.tex
Note that using "latex jobname.tex" probably doesn't work unless you
modify the TEXINPUTS.latex variable in the teTeX configuration file
"/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf".
OpusTeX's Helpers and Other Music Typesetting Packages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OpusTeX is designed mainly for music typesetting, not for music notation.
That is, it lets you control precisely how to typeset a passage, and would
not make the decision for you. Because of this power and versatility, it
t might seems tedious and complicated to input scores, especially for
beginners. Don't be scared, it's not difficult to work with OpusTeX!
Furthermore, there are some great packages and preprocessors with simple
syntax that take care of the design decisions for you, great for all
beginners and experts alike! ^_^ Saves time too!
ABC2MTeX -- An easy way of transcribing folk and traditional music
There are also other great music typesetting packages such as SceX,
MusiXTeX (OpusTeX's twin) and GNU LilyPond. Check out:
MuTeX Mailing List <mutex@gmd.de>
(music typesetting software discussion list)
To subscribe, go to the GMD Music Archive below:
GMD Music Archive (Lots of music scores and music software!)
http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
GNU LilyPond (and links to the GNU Music Project)
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
Many of these great software are now available as Debian packages.
If you like to help packaging other music software, please do so! ^_^
Have fun and start making beautiful music scores! ^_^
Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>, Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:53:45 -0700
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