=head1 NAME Other-packages -- related packages =head1 DESCRIPTION A (not-at-all complete) overview of other music-typesetting/notation packages. Feel free to add info (and mail it to me). =head2 Free packages (with source) =over 4 =item Rosegarden, http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html A Notation editor/Sequencer for X (windows95 port underway). Outputs musictex. =item Common Notation, http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/cmn/cmn.html A versatile lisp package. Part of the Common Music system. Input is in Lisp. It needs some Adobe fonts =item Vivace, http://www.calband.berkeley.edu/~gmeeker/vivace A amateurish notation program for TclTk and X. =item MPP, http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/mpp-english.html A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Jan Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen Nienhuys. It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond. =item LilyPond, http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/index.html Added for completeness. You are currently reading her documentation. =item Music, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/ef/printing.html A TROFF preprocessor by Eric Foxley =item PMX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ A Preprocessor for MusiXTeX by Don Simons =item Musictex, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ MusicTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or instrumental music. It was written by Daniel Taupin. Now obsoleted by MusiXTeX and OpusTeX. It includes a full-featured set of fonts. =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ Newer version of MusicTeX. It also contains contributions by Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler. Daniel Taupin's branch still carries this name. =item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/people/achermann/opustex Andreas Egler's branch of MusiXTeX. =item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and traditional music. =item SceX http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/SceX.html A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Miguel Filgueiras. Source in prolog available on request. (?) =item MUTEX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ A TeX macro package for typesetting single-staff music by Angelika Schofer & Andrea Steinbach. With some fonts =back =head2 Free (zero cents) =over 4 =item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/ A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires Adobe fonts. =back =head2 Proprietary =over 4 =item Scribe, http://adu1.adu.lattrobe.edu.au/Music/Scribe.html A formatter for medieval scores. =item Mup, http://www.arkkra.com/ A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with C source code, it is Shareware. =item MusicEase, http://mesa.colorado.edu/~grader/musicez.html Described in Computer vol 29(6). Shareware =item LIME, http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/ Notation editor for W95 and Mac =item Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius/Home Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best notation program available''. =item Finale =item Score =item Personal Composer =item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/ A shareware windows package =item Capella =item Encore =item Musicator =item WolfGang, http://www.unige.ch/lettres/armus/music/wolfgang.html =item Amadeus, Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se Professional and expensive (DM 4000,--) engraving. Designed as a batch program (like LilyPond). It is aimed at publishers. Its history is more than fifteen years and Amadeus has been running under different Unix clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input =back =head2 Unknown =item MusE A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on Sun boxen. =item MusiCopy, ? A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987. =item Berlioz, http://www.bsi.fr/~montel/