[OS X TeX] MusixTeX

[Georgios Pyrgiotakis]

Dear all,

I found out eventually that there is a problem with the musicTeX  
installation in MacTeX 2007 (or I am not an expert TeX user, which is  
very likely). Although the documentation, *.sty *.tex etc files are  
in the right location the *.pk and *.tfm fonts are not in the right  
folder. So I downloaded the musicTeX package and copied the fonts and  
now it is working... on the other hand it is very likely that I am  
mistaken... But now it works and it is all that matters.

I thought I should share that with you.

Best,

Georgios


On Sep 4, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Georgios Pyrgiotakis wrote:

> Bruno, Daniel:
>
> Thank you very much for your suggestions. I am currently on travel,  
> but I will try them as soon as I get back home.
>
> Thanks once more. This mailing list has been a life saver oh so  
> many times. (well that time is for hobby purposes but still thank  
> you a million)
>
> Georgios
>
> P.S. Bruno the side bar idea is very smart and helpful for many  
> other cases as well. Thanks!!!
>
> On Sep 2, 2007, at 3:11 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 2 sept. 07 à 04:20, Daniel Culver a écrit :
>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Georgios Pyrgiotakis wrote:
>>>
>>>> I recently installed the MacTeX 2007 and the MusixTeX package is  
>>>> not
>>>> installed (I think, at least). Any ideas on how to do it?
>>>
>>> On a Mac you will need to unhide your finder (if you haven't done  
>>> so) and you can follow the usr directory to local, texlive, 2007,  
>>> texmf-dist, tex, latex, and finally musictex. The documentation  
>>> is under texmf-doc, reading this should get you a good start.
>>
>> MusixTeX is indeed pre-installed in MacTeX, but in the tex/generic  
>> area, not tex/latex. For the documentation, this makes it /usr/ 
>> local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/generic/musictex/.
>>
>> By unhiding the Finder I assume you mean typing in Terminal
>>
>> 	defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True
>>
>> And for reverting back to normal:
>>
>> 	defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles False
>>
>> You don't need to do that: you can access the various texmf trees  
>> of a TeX distribution using the alias /Library/TeX/Root/, and the  
>> various documentation folders within these trees using the aliases  
>> inside /Library/TeX/Documentation/. For example, you can access  
>> the MusicTeX documentation by following in the Finder the path / 
>> Library/TeX/Documentation/texmf-dist-doc/generic/musictex/.
>>
>> Personally I just used once the Finder Goto Folder (Cmd-Shift-G)  
>> to navigate to /usr/local/, then dragged the texlive folder to the  
>> sidebar of a Finder window, so that it is present now in the  
>> sidebar, alongside Documents, Music etc. every time I open a new  
>> Finder window.
>>
>> Bruno Voisin
>>
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