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 (windows95 port underway). 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 some Adobe fonts
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31 It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond.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
45 =item Musictex, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
47 MusicTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or
48 instrumental music. It was originally written by Daniel Taupin.
50 It includes a full-featured set of fonts.
52 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
54 A rewrite of MusicTeX, originally by Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler.
55 After quarrels, MusiXTeX has been split into two branches:
57 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
59 Daniel Taupin's now maintains the branch that still carries
62 =item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/achermann/
64 Andreas Egler's branch is called MusiXTeX.
66 =item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
68 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and
71 =item SceX http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/SceX.html
73 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Miguel Filgueiras. Source in prolog
74 available on request. (?)
76 =item MUTEX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
78 A TeX macro package for typesetting single-staff music by Angelika
79 Schofer & Andrea Steinbach. With some fonts
83 =head2 Free (zero cents)
87 =item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
89 A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires Adobe fonts.
97 =item Scribe, http://adu1.adu.lattrobe.edu.au/Music/Scribe.html
99 A formatter for medieval scores.
101 =item Mup, http://www.arkkra.com/
103 A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with
104 C source code, it is Shareware.
106 =item MusicEase, http://mesa.colorado.edu/~grader/musicez.html
108 Described in Computer vol 29(6). Shareware
110 =item LIME, http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/
112 Notation editor for W95 and Mac
114 =item Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius/Home
116 Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best
117 notation program available''. In any case, they are good at bragging.
119 =item ? [``EDV-Notensatz'']
121 URW's music-engraving system described by [Wanske]. (Although URW
122 used ~DM 1.000.000 while developing this, it didn't buy them a cute
127 =item Personal Composer
133 =item Personal Composer
135 =item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
137 A shareware windows package
145 =item Noteworthy, http://www.ntworthy.com
149 =item WolfGang, http://www.unige.ch/lettres/armus/music/wolfgang.html
151 =item Amadeus, Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se
153 Professional and expensive (DM 4000,--) engraving. Designed as a
154 batch program (like LilyPond). It is aimed at publishers. Its history
155 is more than fifteen years and Amadeus has been running under
156 different Unix clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input
164 A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
169 A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987.
171 =item Berlioz, http://www.?.fr/
173 Dominique Montel (a professional music typesetter) is now working
174 together with computer scientists on his own software for music
175 publishing, called "Berlioz".