3 Other-packages -- related packages
7 A (not-at-all complete) overview of other music-typesetting/notation
8 packages. Feel free to add info (and mail it to me).
10 =head2 Free packages (with source)
14 =item Rosegarden, http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
16 A Notation editor/Sequencer for X. Also outputs musictex.
18 =item Common Notation,
19 http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/cmn/cmn.html
21 A versatile lisp package. Part of the Common Music system. Input is in
22 Lisp. It needs the Adobe Sonata or Finale Petrucci font.
24 =item Vivace, http://www.calband.berkeley.edu/~gmeeker/vivace
26 A amateurish notation program for TclTk and X.
28 =item MPP, http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/mpp-english.html
30 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Jan Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen Nienhuys.
31 It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond.
33 =item LilyPond, http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html
35 Added for completeness. You are currently reading her documentation.
37 =item Music, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/ef/printing.html
39 A TROFF preprocessor by Eric Foxley.
41 =item PMX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
43 A Preprocessor for MusiXTeX by Don Simons.
47 A Preprocessor to PMX by Dirk Laurie.
49 =item Musictex, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
51 MusicTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or
52 instrumental music. It was originally written by Daniel Taupin.
54 It includes a full-featured (but slightly unsightly) set of fonts.
56 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
58 A rewrite of MusicTeX, originally by Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler.
59 After quarrels, MusiXTeX has been split into two branches:
61 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
63 Daniel Taupin's now maintains the branch that still carries
66 =item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/achermann/
68 Andreas Egler's branch is now called OpusTeX.
70 =item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
72 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and
75 =item SceX http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/SceX.html
77 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Miguel Filgueiras. Source in prolog
78 available on request. (?)
80 =item MUTEX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
82 A TeX macro package for typesetting single-staff music by Angelika
83 Schofer & Andrea Steinbach. With some fonts.
87 =head2 Free (zero cents)
91 =item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
93 A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires the Adobe Sonata font.
101 =item Scribe, http://adu1.adu.lattrobe.edu.au/Music/Scribe.html
103 A formatter for medieval scores.
105 =item Mup, http://www.arkkra.com/
107 A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with
108 C source code, it is shareware.
110 =item MusicEase, http://mesa.colorado.edu/~grader/musicez.html
112 Described in Computer vol 29(6). Shareware
114 =item LIME, http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/
116 Notation editor for W95 and Mac
118 =item Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius/Home
120 Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best
121 notation program available''. In any case, they are good at bragging.
123 =item [``EDV-Notensatz'']
125 URW's music-engraving system described by [Wanske]. (Although URW
126 used ~DM 1.000.000 while developing this, it didn't buy them a cute
129 =item Logic, http://www.emagic.com/
133 =item Score, http://www.ymusic.com/Score
135 Werner Lemberg <sx0005@sx2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de> writes: I consider
136 SCORE as the best program for typesetting classical music. [..] the
137 price is quite high (about US$ 1000) [..] It has a graphical
138 interface but to get all out of the program you have to learn a 400
139 page manual almost by heart because you'll change most features by
140 inputting parameters (up to 20 for some items) on a command
141 line. Expect three months to master SCORE :-)
144 =item Personal Composer
146 =item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
148 A shareware windows package
156 =item Noteworthy, http://www.ntworthy.com
160 =item WolfGang, http://www.unige.ch/lettres/armus/music/wolfgang.html
162 =item Amadeus, Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se
164 Jerker Elsgard <Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se> writes: professional and
165 expensive (DM 4000,--) engraving. Designed as a batch program (like
166 LilyPond). It is aimed at publishers. Its history is more than
167 fifteen years and Amadeus has been running under different Unix
168 clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input
174 =item MusE, [no WWW address known]
176 A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
179 =item MusiCopy, [no WWW address]
181 A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987.
182 The technical reports that have resulted from MusiCopy can still be
183 obtained by writing to OSU department of Computer Science.
186 =item Berlioz, http://www.?.fr/
188 Dominique Montel (a professional music typesetter) is now working
189 together with computer scientists on his own software for music
190 publishing, called "Berlioz".
194 =item Sonata, http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/F/F_SONA.html
196 The music font by Adobe.