=head1 DESCRIPTION
A (not-at-all complete) overview of other music-typesetting/notation
-packages. Feel free to add info (and mail it to me). Partly based on
-a reflist by Miguel Filgueiras <mig@ncc.up.pt>.
+packages. Feel free to add info (and mail it to me).
=head2 Free packages (with source)
-G Sharp, http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~strandh/Gsharp
+=over 4
-Rosegarden, http://www.math.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
+=item Rosegarden, http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/rose.html
-Common Music/Common Notation, ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp
+A Notation editor/Sequencer for X. Also outputs musictex.
-Vivace
+=item Common Notation,
+http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/cmn/cmn.html
-MPP, http://www.stack.nl/~hanwen/mpp-english.html
+A versatile lisp package. Part of the Common Music system. Input is in
+Lisp. It needs the Adobe Sonata or Finale Petrucci font.
-Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Using TeX and the MusiXTeX macro package to
-write parts and scores of music. Department of Physics, Eindhoven
-University of Technology, 1995.
+=item Vivace, http://www.calband.berkeley.edu/~gmeeker/vivace
-MusicEase, ftp://ftp.secret.com/ad-ftp
+A amateurish notation program for TclTk and X.
-Described in Computer vol 29(6)
+=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+It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond.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
-MusE
+Added for completeness. You are currently reading her documentation.
-A-R Editions, Inc.
+=item Music, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/ef/printing.html
-Mup, http://www.arkkra.com/
+A TROFF preprocessor by Eric Foxley.
-A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with
-C source code, it is Shareware ($29).
+=item PMX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
+
+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.
-PMX
+It includes a full-featured (but slightly unsightly) set of fonts.
-Don Simons, PMX, A Preprocessor for MusiXTeX (Version 1.04).
-dsimons@logicon.com.
+=item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
-Musi*TeX, 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:
-Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler, MusixTeX: Using TeX
-to Write Polyphonic or Instrumental Music (Version T.64). Laboratoire
-de Physique des Solides, Centre Universitaire, Orsay, 1993.
+=item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
-ABC2MTeX
+Daniel Taupin's now maintains the branch that still carries
+the name MusiXTeX.
-Chris Walshaw, ABC2MTeX --- An easy way of transcribing folk
-and traditional music. School of Maths, University of Greenwich, 1993.
+=item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/achermann/
-SceX
+Andreas Egler's branch is now called OpusTeX.
-Miguel Filgueiras and Jos\'e Paulo Leal, A First Formulation of
-SceX, a Music Typesetting System. Centro de Inform\'atica da
-Universidade do Porto, 1993.
+=item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
-MUTEX
+A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and
+traditional music.
-Fran\ccois Jalbert, MuTeX User's Guide (Version 1.1). Computer
-Science Department, University of British Columbia, 1989.
+=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)
-Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
+=over 4
-A NeXT package
+=item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
-Mozart
+A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires the Adobe Sonata font.
-A windows package
+=back
=head2 Proprietary
-LIME, http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/
+=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''. 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
-Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius
+=item Score, http://www.ymusic.com/Score
-Finale
+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 :-)
-Score
-Musicator
+=item Personal Composer
+
+=item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
+
+A shareware windows package
+
+=item Capella
+
+=item Encore
+
+=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
-Berlioz, http://www.bsi.fr/~montel/
+=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.
+
+
+
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