Since the first release of MusicTEX, many users have either asked for new features of proposed their own procedures to be included in MusicTEX. Some of them have been added because of their high utility, some others have been left aside for several reasons. The major reason for not including many proposals in the MusicTEX release is that – at least on many computers and especially PC's – the TEX memory is limited to 65 000 ``words''. This is a very restricted value which causes many trials to exceed the capacity of TEX (unless using ``bigTEX''). Therefore, only the proposed macros of very general use can be introduced in the release as a standard and the users are suggested to take their specific procedures and include them (directly of by means of an normalshapemediumseries\input) in their own source code.
This is particularly valid for people who want to typeset baroque music using the ancient ornament codings rather than the modern equivalents. As a compromise, some macros kindly provided by Ian COLLIER in Great Britain have slightly been updated and provided in a separate file named normalshapemediumseriesmusicext.tex.
For example, brackets can be produced: