Typesetting music in LaTeX

Question

I would be grateful for any help typesetting music in LaTeX. I've tried to use MusiXTeX but have been very frustrated.

As I understand it, the MusiXTeX notation has a steep learning curve, but I'm OK with that; the notation seems to be well documented. The hardest part is installation and getting a simple "hello world" example to work.

I'm not committed to MusiXTeX; I'll try anything that works with LaTeX. But I've tried other alternatives and been equally frustrated with them.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/648429/typesetting-music-in-latex

Answer 1

How about LilyPond? It uses its own plaintext notation, but uses TeX for output. The engine itself uses a whole slew of measures to analyze the music and produce pretty sheet music, so it's automated to a much greater extent than MusixTex is.