However, a LaTEX style has been also provided (and it is used for the typing of the present paper) but this musictex style is fit for musicographic books rather than for normal scores to be actually played.
It is to be emphasized that MusicTEX is not intended to be a compiler which would translate into TEX some standard musical notations, nor to decide by itself about aesthetic problems in music typing. MusicTEX only typesets staves, notes, chords, beams, slurs and ornaments as requested by the composer. Since it makes very few typesetting decisions, MusicTEX appears to be a versatile and rather powerful tool. However, due to the important amount of informations to be provided to the typesetting process, coding MusicTEX might appear to be awfully complicated, just as the real keyboard or orchestral music. It should be interfaced therefore by some pre-compiler in the case of the composer/typesetter wanting aesthetic decisions to be automatically made by somebody (or something) else.