This is MusiXTeX, version 1.38 (2024-03-29). MusiXTeX is a TeX-based system for typesetting music. The main author was Daniel Taupin, who died in a climbing accident in 2003; other authors credited in the MusiXTeX manual are Andreas Egler and Ross Mitchell. MusiXTeX is now being maintained by Don Simons dsimons(at)roadrunner(dot)com Hiroaki Morimoto CQX05646(at)nifty(dot)com Bob Tennent rdt(at)cs(dot)queensu(dot)ca The package includes + Postscript slur support, due to Stanislav Kneifl + musixlyr support for lyrics, due to Rainer Dunker + musixcrd support for chord symbols, due to Robert Hennig + support for music text in Palatino, Helvetica, Times and EC fonts + several other extension packages + a script musixflx.lua for the 2nd-pass processing + a script musixtex.lua that uses pre-processors prepmx, pmxab or autosp, as necessary, and automates the 3-pass etex -> musixflx -> [pdf]etex process, possibly followed by calls to dvips and ps2pdf (or dvipdfm) to convert the output to Portable Document Format (PDF) + wrapper scripts musixflx.bat and musixtex.bat for use on Windows MusiXTeX fonts, including both the original metafont sources and Type 1 versions by Takanori Uchiyama, and specialized fonts frenchtab and MuseJazzText have been moved to a separate musixtex-fonts package, which must be installed before using the MusiXTeX macros. musixtex-install.{pdf,tex} is a more-detailed version of the following instructions: To install (on TDS-compliant TeX systems): + unzip mirror.ctan.org/install/macros/musixtex.tds.zip at the root of a texmf tree and, if necessary, update the filename database; e.g., texhash texmf. + on Windows: move the scripts in Windows to a folder on the executable PATH (or add that folder to the PATH) + on any Unix-like system: install symbolic links musixflx and musixtex in a directory on the executable PATH to scripts/musixtex/musixflx.lua and scripts/musixtex/musixtex.lua, respectively. Documentation for MusiXTeX and friends is installed under doc/generic/musixtex Documentation for the musixflx and musixtex scripts are in doc/generic/musixtex/scripts Many users, especially beginners, will find it easier to use the PMX and M-Tx pre-processors, which accept a simpler input language than MusiXTeX itself. Another pre-processor, autosp, simplifies input to MusiXTeX by automatically generating note-spacing commands. These pre-processor packages may be found at CTAN under support. Additional documentation, additional add-on packages, and many examples of MusiXTeX typesetting may be found at the Werner Icking Music Archive at http://icking-music-archive.org/ Support for users of MusiXTeX and related software may be obtained via the MusiXTeX mail list at http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music MusiXTeX may be freely copied, duplicated and used in conformance to the GNU General Public License (Version 2, 1991, see included file gpl.txt) or (at your option) any later version. This distribution is maintained by Bob Tennent rdtennent(at)gmail(dot)com.