Re: startTEXapplication and music?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:54 AM 11/7/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>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

I'll send you a test file. The problem is: how to set up musictex to 
provide a nicely cropped box. I have no time to look into that now, so 
that's up to you to find out

Hans
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