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. Also 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 the Adobe Sonata or Finale Petrucci font.
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31 It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond.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.
47 A Preprocessor to PMX by Dirk Laurie.
49 =item Musictex, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
51 MusicTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or
52 instrumental music. It was originally written by Daniel Taupin.
54 It includes a full-featured (but slightly unsightly) set of fonts.
56 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
58 A rewrite of MusicTeX, originally by Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler.
59 After quarrels, MusiXTeX has been split into two branches:
61 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
63 Daniel Taupin's now maintains the branch that still carries
66 =item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/achermann/
68 Andreas Egler's branch is called MusiXTeX.
70 =item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
72 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and
75 =item SceX http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/SceX.html
77 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Miguel Filgueiras. Source in prolog
78 available on request. (?)
80 =item MUTEX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
82 A TeX macro package for typesetting single-staff music by Angelika
83 Schofer & Andrea Steinbach. With some fonts
87 =head2 Free (zero cents)
91 =item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
93 A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires the Adobe Sonata font.
101 =item Scribe, http://adu1.adu.lattrobe.edu.au/Music/Scribe.html
103 A formatter for medieval scores.
105 =item Mup, http://www.arkkra.com/
107 A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with
108 C source code, it is Shareware.
110 =item MusicEase, http://mesa.colorado.edu/~grader/musicez.html
112 Described in Computer vol 29(6). Shareware
114 =item LIME, http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/
116 Notation editor for W95 and Mac
118 =item Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius/Home
120 Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best
121 notation program available''. In any case, they are good at bragging.
123 =item [``EDV-Notensatz'']
125 URW's music-engraving system described by [Wanske]. (Although URW
126 used ~DM 1.000.000 while developing this, it didn't buy them a cute
133 =item Score, http://www.ymusic.com/Score
135 Werner Lemberg <sx0005@sx2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de>
136 writes to me: I consider SCORE as the best program for
137 typesetting classical music. [..] the price is quite high (about US$
138 1000) [..] It has a graphical interface but to get all out of the
139 program you have to learn a 400 page manual almost by heart because
140 you'll change most features by inputting parameters (up to 20 for some
141 items) on a command line. Expect three months to master SCORE :-)
146 =item Personal Composer
148 =item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
150 A shareware windows package
158 =item Noteworthy, http://www.ntworthy.com
162 =item WolfGang, http://www.unige.ch/lettres/armus/music/wolfgang.html
164 =item Amadeus, Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se
166 Jerker Elsgard writes: professional and expensive (DM 4000,--)
167 engraving. Designed as a batch program (like LilyPond). It is aimed
168 at publishers. Its history is more than fifteen years and Amadeus has
169 been running under different Unix clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input
177 A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
180 =item MusiCopy, [no WWW address]
182 A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987.
183 The technical reports that have resulted from MusiCopy can still be
187 =item Berlioz, http://www.?.fr/
189 Dominique Montel (a professional music typesetter) is now working
190 together with computer scientists on his own software for music
191 publishing, called "Berlioz".
195 =item Sonata, http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/F/F_SONA.html
197 The music font by Adobe.