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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.
It seems to me that what you really want, is to customize the look of the captions. This is most easily done using the caption package. For instructions how to use this package, see the manual (PDF). You would probably need to create your own custom caption format, as described in chapter 4 in the manual.
Edit: Tested with MikTex:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFont{white}{\color{white}}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{listing}{\colorbox{gray}{\parbox{\textwidth}{#1#2#3}}}
\captionsetup[lstlisting]{format=listing,labelfont=white,textfont=white}
% This concludes the preamble
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[label=some-code,caption=Some Code]
public void here() {
goes().the().code()
}
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
Result:
Use p{width} for your column specifiers instead of l/r/c.
\begin{tabular}{|p{1cm}|p{3cm}|}
This text will be wrapped & Some more text \\
\end{tabular}
EDIT: (based on the comments)
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{p{0.35\linewidth} | p{0.6\linewidth}}
Column 1 & Column2 \\ \hline
This text will be wrapped & Some more text \\
Some text here & This text maybe wrapped here if its tooooo long \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Caption}
\label{tab:my_label}
\end{table}
we get:
Best Answer
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.