Introduction

MusicTEX is an extension of TEX for typesetting polyphonic music written by Daniel Taupin. I was surprised by the excellent result of the output. However, the coding of a music piece with MusicTEX is quite laborious and difficult. The first thing which came to my mind was that certainly there must be people out there who developed software which could translate MIDI files into MusicTEX code. I placed requests on the international NEWS system. However, I did not get any response. That made me decide to develop such software myself. MIDI2TEX is the result. I hope that it can be useful for other people who, just like me, are involved in MIDI but do not have a good music type setting system and know how to get on with TEX.

If you are not familiar with TEX at all I would recommend to find another software package to do musical typesetting. Setting up TEX and MusicTEX on your machine and mastering it is an awesome job which gobbles up a lot of your time and disk space. But, once you master it....