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 (windows95 port underway). 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 some Adobe fonts
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31 It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond.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
45 =item Musictex, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
47 MusicTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or
48 instrumental music. It was originally written by Daniel Taupin.
50 It includes a full-featured set of fonts.
52 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
54 A rewrite of MusicTeX, originally by Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler.
55 After quarrels, MusiXTeX has been split into two branches:
57 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
59 Daniel Taupin's now maintains the branch that still carries
62 =item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/achermann/
64 Andreas Egler's branch is called MusiXTeX.
66 =item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
68 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and
71 =item SceX http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/SceX.html
73 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Miguel Filgueiras. Source in prolog
74 available on request. (?)
76 =item MUTEX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
78 A TeX macro package for typesetting single-staff music by Angelika
79 Schofer & Andrea Steinbach. With some fonts
83 =head2 Free (zero cents)
87 =item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
89 A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires Adobe fonts.
98 =item Scribe, http://adu1.adu.lattrobe.edu.au/Music/Scribe.html
100 A formatter for medieval scores.
102 =item Mup, http://www.arkkra.com/
104 A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with
105 C source code, it is Shareware.
107 =item MusicEase, http://mesa.colorado.edu/~grader/musicez.html
109 Described in Computer vol 29(6). Shareware
111 =item LIME, http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/
113 Notation editor for W95 and Mac
115 =item Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius/Home
117 Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best
118 notation program available''. In any case, they are good at bragging.
120 =item ? [``EDV-Notensatz'']
122 URW's music-engraving system described by [Wanske]. (Although URW
123 used ~DM 1.000.000 while developing this, it didn't buy them a cute
128 =item Personal Composer
134 =item Personal Composer
136 =item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
138 A shareware windows package
146 =item WolfGang, http://www.unige.ch/lettres/armus/music/wolfgang.html
148 =item Amadeus, Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se
150 Professional and expensive (DM 4000,--) engraving. Designed as a
151 batch program (like LilyPond). It is aimed at publishers. Its history
152 is more than fifteen years and Amadeus has been running under
153 different Unix clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input
161 A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
166 A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987.
168 =item Berlioz, http://www.?.fr/
170 Dominique Montel (a professional music typesetter) is now working
171 together with computer scientists on his own software for music
172 publishing, called "Berlioz".