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31 It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond.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 written by Daniel Taupin. Now obsoleted
49 by MusiXTeX and OpusTeX.
51 It includes a full-featured set of fonts.
53 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
55 Newer version of MusicTeX. It also contains contributions by Ross
56 Mitchell and Andreas Egler. Daniel Taupin's branch still carries this
59 =item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/people/achermann/opustex
61 Andreas Egler's branch of MusiXTeX.
63 =item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
65 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and
68 =item SceX http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/SceX.html
70 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Miguel Filgueiras. Source in prolog
71 available on request. (?)
73 =item MUTEX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
75 A TeX macro package for typesetting single-staff music by Angelika
76 Schofer & Andrea Steinbach. With some fonts
80 =head2 Free (zero cents)
84 =item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
86 A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires Adobe fonts.
95 =item Scribe, http://adu1.adu.lattrobe.edu.au/Music/Scribe.html
97 A formatter for medieval scores.
99 =item Mup, http://www.arkkra.com/
101 A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with
102 C source code, it is Shareware.
104 =item MusicEase, http://mesa.colorado.edu/~grader/musicez.html
106 Described in Computer vol 29(6). Shareware
108 =item LIME, http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/
110 Notation editor for W95 and Mac
112 =item Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius/Home
114 Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best
115 notation program available''.
121 =item Personal Composer
123 =item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
125 A shareware windows package
133 =item WolfGang, http://www.unige.ch/lettres/armus/music/wolfgang.html
135 =item Amadeus, Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se
137 Professional and expensive (DM 4000,--) engraving. Designed as a
138 batch program (like LilyPond). It is aimed at publishers. Its history
139 is more than fifteen years and Amadeus has been running under
140 different Unix clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input
151 A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
156 A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987.
158 =item Berlioz, http://www.bsi.fr/~montel/