Contents

What is MusicTEX ?
MusicTEX principal features
Music typesetting is two-dimensional
The spacing of the notes
Music tokens, rather than a readymade generator
Beams
Setting anything on the score
A simple example
Some highlights
Signatures
Transposition
Selecting special instrument scores
Variable staff and note sizes
How to get it
Enhancements
Recent easy enhancements
The tie/slur problem
Enhancement limitations
Acknowledgements

Practical use
Heading statements
Before you begin to write notes
Instrument names
Polyphonic songs
Starting your masterpiece
Typing the first system
Easy selecting note spacing
Note pitch specification
Writing notes
Single (spacing) notes
Non-spacing (chord) notes
Shifted non-spacing (chord) heads
Shifted notes
Non-spacing single notes
Pointed notes
Beams
Fixed slope beams
Repeated pattern beams
Semi-automatic beams
Rests
ordinary rests
Lifted rests
Phantom notes
Collective coding: sequences of notes
Accidentals
Transposition and octaviation
Ties and slurs
Standard and nicer slurs
Problem with large slur ends
Weird slurs and ties
Refined slurs for clever typesetters
Bars
Bars and spacing
Bar numbering
Full and instrument divided bars
Line and page breaking
Changing score attributes
Repeats
Elementary and unsafe solutions
Safe and correct coding
Specific first and second pass scoring
Large scope repeats
Miscellaneous
Putting anything anywhere
Metronomic indications
Usual ornaments
New line synchronization of coding
Beams across bars
Small and tiny notes
Cadenzas and explicit ornaments
Grace notes
Gregorian note shapes
Percussion stemless note shapes
Other note shapes
Staff size
Moving from 20pt to 16pt general staff sizes and conversely
Changing staff size for certain instruments
Layout parameters
List of layout parameters
Changing layout parameters
Changing the vertical distance between consecutive systems
Changing staff distance within systems
Changing the number of lines in staffs
Resetting normal layout parameters
Typesetting one-line excerpts rather than larges scores
Lyrics
Other special ornaments
Abnormal music coding
Gregorian chant
Music score without clefs or with special clefs
Usual percussion music
Writing your own macros: the normalshapemediumseries\catcode problems
MusiclaTEX
The musictex.sty style
Wide music in LATEX
The normalshapemediumseries\catcode problems
Implementation and restrictions

Installation
Examples
Summary of denotations
Pitches
Notes and Rests
Other symbols
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