=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.
+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 (but slightly unsightly) set of fonts.
+
+=item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
+
+A rewrite of MusicTeX, originally by Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler.
+After quarrels, MusiXTeX has been split into two branches:
+
+=item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
+
+Daniel Taupin's now maintains the branch that still carries
+the name MusiXTeX.
-=item Musi*TeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
+=item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/achermann/
-MusixTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or
-instrumental music by Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell and Andreas
-Egler. It includes a full-featured set of fonts.
+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
=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.
+A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires the Adobe Sonata font.
+
+=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.
+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/engraving on Acorn machines.
+Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best
+notation program available''. In any case, they are good at bragging.
+
+=item [``EDV-Notensatz'']
+
+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 Logic, http://www.emagic.com/
=item Finale
-=item Score
+=item Score, http://www.ymusic.com/Score
-=item Personal Composer
+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 MusE
-A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
-Sun boxen.
+=item Personal Composer
=item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
=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
+
+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 MusiCopy, ?
+=item MusE, [no WWW address known]
+
+A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
+Sun boxen.
+
+=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".
+
+=head2 Other stuff
+
+=item Sonata, http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/F/F_SONA.html
+
+The music font by Adobe.
+
+
-=item Berlioz, http://www.bsi.fr/~montel/
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