On 15-Apr-00 Bernie Gardner wrote:
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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