Musixtex is a set of TeX macros to typeset polyphonic, orchestral or
polyphonic music. Therefore, it is mainly supposed to be used to type wide
scores -- just because true musicians seldom like to have to frequently turn
pages -- and this is not really compatible with LaTeX's standard page
formats. Even with A4.sty, the \textheight and \textwidth
are too small for musician needs.

However, a LaTeX style has also been provided (and it is used for the
typing of the present paper) but this MusixTeX style is fit for
musicographic books rather than for normal scores to be actually played.

 It should be emphasized that MusixTeX is not intended to be a
compiler which would translate some standard musical
notations into TeX, nor to decide by itself about aesthetic problems in music
typing. MusixTeX only typesets staves, notes, chords, beams, slurs and
ornaments as requested by the composer. Since it makes very few typesetting
decisions, MusixTeX appears to be a versatile and rather powerful tool.
However, due to the important amount of information to be provided to the
typesetting process, coding MusixTeX might appear to be as awfully complicated
as the real keyboard or orchestral music. It should therefore be interfaced by
some pre-compiler in the case of the composer/typesetter wanting aesthetic
decisions to be automatically made by somebody (or something) else.


The package contains macros, fonts and executable required for formatting
scores. The supplementary packages are musixtex-docs and musixtex-examples.
Musixtex-docs contains documentation in source (MusixTeX) and Poscscript
formats. Musixtex-examples contains a number of examples of scores as MusixTeX
sources provided by author of MusixTeX. The examples can show how to
use certain macros.

Documentation can be found in
	/usr/doc/musixtex-docs-T73s-1
	/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/doc/musix

Names and email addresses of authors can be found in documentation.
The package builder is Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@msu.ru>.
