On 15-Apr-00 Ted Harding wrote:

On 15-Apr-00 Bernie Gardner wrote:

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I'm trying to set up Rosegarden and Musixtex to write and print music. These are both packges distributed with the SuSE distribution (V6.4) and seem to be complete and functional installs. However, Rosegarden exports a Musixtex file for printed output, and when I try to run Musixtex on the resulting file I get an error indicating that the file 'musicnft' cannot be found. This file is requested as an input at the beginning of the Rosegarden generated file but does not exist on the system. That is the spelling, not 'musicfnt', though I've looked for all logical variations. I don't know whether this file is supposed to come with Rosegarden, Musixtex or some other source. I suspect this is a fairly obscure question but if anyone has a suggestion I'ld appreciate it.

Bernie Gardner bernieg1@mediaone.net

I had problems getting good results with rosegarden and musixtex and gave up on it a good while ago, so can't answer your specific query now, I'm afraid.

(If you ever get it to print, try quaver triplets, Alberti bass style, in the bass line of a 4-4 time piano score, to see a particularly bad example; you won't see the defect in the GUI, but it's there -- and how -- in the printout.)

However, if what you want to do is print good hard-copy (musical scores on paper) I can strongly recommend MUP.

See http://www.arkkra.com

This has (unlike rosegarden) no GUI -- i.e. you can't pluck and plant notes etc onto an on-screen score. Instead, the music is input as a descriptive text file (very terse notation, but fairly straightforward when you're used to it). MUP then "compiles" this into a score.

The resulting PostScript output is, however, excellent. You can also get a fairly basic MIDI file as well.

MUP is shareware, and you have to pay $29 to get a key which will suppress the "evaluation copy" over-print on the output; but I reckon it's well worth it, and the continued support from Arkkra is also very good.

Ted.

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Thanks for the reply Ted. I'm beginning to agree with your assessment of Rosegarden and MusixTex. I finally figured out that the musicfnt.tex file problem was because Rosegarden is actually exporting the older, MusicTex format which apparently did need a musicfnt.tex file. When I removed the insert line from the Rosegarden output file it worked fine. I'm actually trying to sort this out for my son who is a music major. I'll pass your suggestion on to him. Bernie Bernie Gardner bernieg1@mediaone.net -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/