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31 It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond.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 called MusiXTeX.
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
135 =item Personal Composer
137 =item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
139 A shareware windows package
147 =item Noteworthy, http://www.ntworthy.com
151 =item WolfGang, http://www.unige.ch/lettres/armus/music/wolfgang.html
153 =item Amadeus, Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se
155 Professional and expensive (DM 4000,--) engraving. Designed as a
156 batch program (like LilyPond). It is aimed at publishers. Its history
157 is more than fifteen years and Amadeus has been running under
158 different Unix clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input
166 A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
169 =item MusiCopy, [no WWW address]
171 A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987.
172 The technical reports that have resulted from MusiCopy can still be
176 =item Berlioz, http://www.?.fr/
178 Dominique Montel (a professional music typesetter) is now working
179 together with computer scientists on his own software for music
180 publishing, called "Berlioz".
184 =item Sonata, http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/F/F_SONA.html
186 The music font by Adobe.