=item Rosegarden, http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
-A Notation editor/Sequencer for X (windows95 port underway). Outputs musictex.
+A Notation editor/Sequencer for X. Also 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
+Lisp. It needs the Adobe Sonata or Finale Petrucci font.
=item Vivace, http://www.calband.berkeley.edu/~gmeeker/vivace
=item Music, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/ef/printing.html
-A TROFF preprocessor by Eric Foxley
+A TROFF preprocessor by Eric Foxley.
=item PMX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
-A Preprocessor for MusiXTeX by Don Simons
+A Preprocessor for MusiXTeX by Don Simons.
+
+=item M-Tx,
+
+A Preprocessor to PMX by Dirk Laurie.
=item Musictex, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
MusicTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or
instrumental music. It was originally written by Daniel Taupin.
-It includes a full-featured set of fonts.
+It includes a full-featured (but slightly unsightly) set of fonts.
=item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
=item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/achermann/
-Andreas Egler's branch is called MusiXTeX.
+Andreas Egler's branch is now called OpusTeX.
=item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
=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
+Schofer & Andrea Steinbach. With some fonts.
=back
=item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
-A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires Adobe fonts.
-
+A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires the Adobe Sonata font.
=back
=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.
+C source code, it is shareware.
=item MusicEase, http://mesa.colorado.edu/~grader/musicez.html
=item Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius/Home
Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best
-notation program available''.
-
-=item Ikarus,
+notation program available''. In any case, they are good at bragging.
-URW's music-engraving system described by [Wanske]
+=item [``EDV-Notensatz'']
-=item Logic,
+URW's music-engraving system described by [Wanske]. (Although URW
+used ~DM 1.000.000 while developing this, it didn't buy them a cute
+name.)
-=item Personal Composer
+=item Logic, http://www.emagic.com/
=item Finale
-=item Score
+=item Score, http://www.ymusic.com/Score
+
+Werner Lemberg <sx0005@sx2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de> writes: I consider
+SCORE as the best program for typesetting classical music. [..] the
+price is quite high (about US$ 1000) [..] It has a graphical
+interface but to get all out of the program you have to learn a 400
+page manual almost by heart because you'll change most features by
+inputting parameters (up to 20 for some items) on a command
+line. Expect three months to master SCORE :-)
+
=item Personal Composer
=item Musicator
+=item Noteworthy, http://www.ntworthy.com
+
+Shareware.
+
=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
+Jerker Elsgard <Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se> writes: 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
+=item MusE, [no WWW address known]
A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
Sun boxen.
-=item MusiCopy, ?
+=item MusiCopy, [no WWW address]
A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987.
+The technical reports that have resulted from MusiCopy can still be
+obtained by writing to OSU department of Computer Science.
+
=item Berlioz, http://www.?.fr/
-Dominique Montel (a professional music typesetter) is now working together with
-computer scientists on his own software for music publishing, called "Berlioz".
+Dominique Montel (a professional music typesetter) is now working
+together with computer scientists on his own software for music
+publishing, called "Berlioz".
+
+=head2 Other stuff
+
+=item Sonata, http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/F/F_SONA.html
+
+The music font by Adobe.
+
+
+
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