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I am trying to use this package called byzantinemusic. It says I need byzantinemusic package and BZ-fonts and run XeLaTeX engine. I have a problem with BZ-fonts. I downladed the BZ-fonts from here, and installed them on my system. Then in the preamble I defined the new font as

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{byzantinemusic}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{BZByzantina}
\begin{document}
\th{\iso}[\ne]
\end{document}

But I get an error that $ is missing. How can I make the byzantinemusic package work properly, and get the same results as in the documentation?

BlackMath
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The package just redefines \ne within the environment byzantinemusic the last part of the package is:

\newenvironment{byzantinemusic}{% enable the music-related versions
\let\kk\kkBMusic
\let\R\RBMusic
\let\oli\oliBMusic
\let\ke\keBMusic
\let\zw\zwBMusic
\let\boy\boyBMusic
\let\oy\oyBMusic
\let\pa\paBMusic
\let\ga\gaBMusic
\let\di\diBMusic
\let\nh\nhBMusic
\let\t\tBMusic
\let\tha\thaBMusic
\let\bm\bmBMusic
\let\kor\korBMusic
\let\red\redBMusic
\let\spa\spaBMusic
\let\p\pBMusic
\let\y\yBMusic
\let\g\gBMusic
\let\ela\elaBMusic
\let\s\sBMusic 
\let\met\metBMusic
\let\ne\neBMusic
\let\na\naBMusic
\let\n\nBMusic
\let\k\kBMusic
%\let\b\bBMusic
%\let\x\xBMusic
%\let\xx\xxBMusic
\let\gg\ggBMusic
\let\arg\argBMusic
\let\dia\diaBMusic
\let\tri\triBMusic
\let\ypo\ypoBMusic
\let\bar\barBMusic
\let\th\thBMusic
\let\syn\synBMusic
\let\ysyn\ysynBMusic
\let\ll\llBMusic
\let\l\lBMusic
\let\L\LBMusic
\let\pl\plBMusic
\let\lp\lpBMusic
\let\gp\gpBMusic
\let\pg\pgBMusic
\let\ppg\ppgBMusic
\let\gpp\gppBMusic
%
\let\II\IIBMusic
\let\ν\νBMusic
\let\νε\νεBMusic
}{% enable the original versions
\let\ll\lloriginal
\let\l\loriginal
\let\ne\neoriginal  
\let\arg\argoriginal
\let\th\thoriginal
\let\b\boriginal
\let\k\koriginal
\let\bar\baroriginal
\let\gg\ggoriginal
\let\L\Loriginal
}

(actually the last part resetting to the original versions does nothing as the group structure restores them anyway)

so you neeed \neBMusic or be inside the byzantinemusic environment.

David Carlisle
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  • Thanks. I used byzantinemusic environment, and the music notations are working fine now. However, I am still getting an error about \ne as undefined control sequence and it suggests using \anapodohta instead, which works, but the scaling and positioning is not right. I can read more about that in the documentation. Another thing, when I write non-Latin characters in the square brackets in \th{\iso}[...] nothing appears under the music notations. Is this a LaTeX thing or related to the byzantinemusic package? – BlackMath Feb 18 '22 at 14:20
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    @BlackMath sorry I had never heard of the package and haven't looked at the doc I just fetched the sty and one font to try your example so I can't really tell you more – David Carlisle Feb 18 '22 at 15:15
  • As a frequent user of MusiXTeX I am not familiar with the byzantine package, but a quick look at the documentation gave me the impression that \ne always is followed by a space and a letter. Maybe this is the 'missing $'. – C. Peters May 12 '22 at 08:09