This is MusiXTeX, version 1.15 (packaged 2011-07-18). MusiXTeX is a TeX-based system for typesetting music. The main author was Daniel Taupin, who died in a climbing accident in 2003; other authors credited in the MusiXTeX manual are Andreas Egler and Ross Mitchell. MusiXTeX is now being maintained by Don Simons dsimons(at)roadrunner(dot)com Hiroaki Morimoto CQX05646(at)nifty(dot)com The package consists of musixtex-texmf.zip, which contains macros, fonts, documentation and support files, including + Postscript versions of the music fonts, due to Takanori Uchiyama + Postscript slur support, due to Stanislav Kneifl + musixlyr support for lyrics, due to Rainer Dunker + musixcrd support for chord symbols, due to Robert Hennig + a few small extension packages (curly, tuplet, underbracket) + a script musixflx.lua for the 2nd-pass processing + a script musixtex.lua that automates the 3-pass etex -> musixflx -> [pdf]etex process, possibly followed by calls to dvips and ps2pdf (or dvipdfm) to convert the output to Portable Document Format (PDF) + wrapper scripts musixflx.bat and musixtex.bat for use on Windows musixtex-install.{pdf,tex}, a more-detailed version of the following instructions: To install (on TDS-compliant TeX systems): + unzip musixtex-texmf.zip at the root of a texmf tree and, if necessary, update the filename database; e.g., texhash texmf. + update the relevant font-map files; e.g., append MixedMap musix.map to the relevant updmap.cfg, and execute updmap[-sys] + on Windows: move the scripts in scripts\musixtex\Windows to a folder on the executable PATH (or add that folder to the PATH) + on any Unix-like system: install symbolic links musixflx and musixtex in a directory on the executable PATH to scripts/musixtex/musixflx.lua and scripts/musixtex/musixtex.lua, respectively. Documentation for MusiXTeX and friends is installed under doc/generic/musixtex Documentation for the musixflx and musixtex scripts are in doc/generic/musixtex/scripts Check out musixtex-install.pdf for information on the extension packages, which are installed under doc/generic/musixtex/addons Many users, especially beginners, will find it easier to use the PMX and M-Tx pre-processors, which accept a simpler input language than MusiXTeX itself. These pre-processor packages may be found at CTAN under support. Additional documentation, additional add-on packages, and many examples of MusiXTeX typesetting may be found at the Werner Icking Music Archive at http://icking-music-archive.org/ Support for users of MusiXTeX and related software may be obtained via the MusiXTeX mail list at http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music MusiXTeX may be freely copied, duplicated and used in conformance to the GNU General Public License (Version 2, 1991, see included file gpl.txt). This CTAN distribution is maintained by Bob Tennent rdt(at)cs(dot)queensu(dot)ca.