- 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
- MusiXTEX
- 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)
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- 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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