MusixTeX is a set of TeX macros to typeset polyphonic, orchestral or polyphonic music. This is the typical way one would process a MusixTeX file: musixtex foo musixflx foo musixtex foo This will give you foo.dvi which then can be processed like any other .dvi. Use dvips to convert it into a postscript file or print it to a Postscript printer. Then ps2pdf may be used to convert the Postscript file into a PDF file. The full documentation of MusixTeX will be found in ${LOCALBASE}/share/texmf/doc/musixtex/. It's highly recommended that you either print out musixdoc.ps directly or use a PDF viewer to print musixdoc.pdf and put the resulting hardcopy in a loose-leaf binder.