Hi Adam,

With interest I read your posting. - I was in contact with Hans some time
ago about this.
However Hans is to busy to go and study the musixtex-package...

I tried to find out how this might be done to have CONTEXT to use it. how
ever I failed to krack the nut.

Personally I am using at this moment musixtex as a processor for files
generated with PMX and I run it through pdftex. - Because I have to typeset
a collection of short songs with texts (this happens to work well with
musixlyr) I experience troubles how I am going to assemble the final
booklet. ...

I saw that Hans sent you a test file. May be you are so kind to keep me
informed about the possibilities suggested by him.

For you rinformation I add two examples of what I have achieved sofar.

Kind regards Willi


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
To: "Ntg Context" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: [NTG-context] startTEXapplication and music?


> Hi ConTeXters,
>
> Here's another oddball question to see what's possible.
>
> I'm trying to get musictex (or musixtex, if the first one is a success)
> to work from within ConTeXt. Musictex code like that at the bottom of my
> message doesn't work directly in ConTeXt, and I don't feel the pressing
> need to make it work. However, it works fine when fed through pdftex.
>
> While doing a quick grep through the source files, I came across the
> \startTEXapplication and \startTEXpage macros used in the pstricks
> module, and they look like they handle the spirit of what I'm trying to
> accomplish. However, the pass through texexec again (and to some extent
> the dependency on ps2pdf, which I need to get from ghostscript and isn't
> in my TeXLive) means that ConTeXt fails on a tmp file, right?
>
> Would this be a good time to learn about buffers? Should I copy-paste the
> definitions involved with TEXapplication and modify them to something to
> my needs? Is there something that exists already that runs a simple
> pdftex on a code block and inserts it as a figure?
>
> thanks,
> adam
> musictex code follows:
>
> \input musicnft
> \input musictex
>
> \def\nbinstruments{1}\relax % a single instrument
> \generalmeter{\meterfrac{4}{4}}\relax % 4/4 meter chosen
> \debutextrait % starting real score
> \normal % normal 12 pt note spacing
> \temps\Notes\ibu0f0\qh0{cge}\tbu0\qh0g\enotes
> \finextrait % terminate excerpt
>
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