This is MusiXTeX, version 1.15 (packaged 2013-12-12). 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 includes

   + 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 fonts, including both the original metafont sources and Type
1 versions by Takanori Uchiyama are in a separate musixtex-fonts
package, which must be installed before using the MusiXTeX macros.

musixtex-install.{pdf,tex} is a more-detailed version of the following
instructions:

To install (on TDS-compliant TeX systems):

 +  unzip tex-archive/install/macros/musixtex.tds.zip at the root of a
    texmf tree and, if necessary, update the filename database; 
    e.g., texhash texmf.

 +  on Windows: move the scripts in 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.
