X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fother-packages.pod;h=b8b754be83717fa443b69c068f36941acd527664;hb=1ff8f1c7e0baac008490e9e62995df70e0ed5128;hp=fc3a2585cd1ce86d187c79e62b9c28eab02ee780;hpb=0dc651561ed849b121d26cbd07a192e9fefeb832;p=lilypond.git diff --git a/Documentation/other-packages.pod b/Documentation/other-packages.pod index fc3a2585cd..b8b754be83 100644 --- a/Documentation/other-packages.pod +++ b/Documentation/other-packages.pod @@ -5,91 +5,211 @@ Other-packages -- related packages =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 . +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 +A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Jan Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen Nienhuys. +It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond. MPP is still available via +the CTAN archive. +=item LilyPond, http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/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. + +It includes a full-featured (but slightly unsightly) set of fonts. -PMX +=item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ -Don Simons, PMX, A Preprocessor for MusiXTeX (Version 1.04). -dsimons@logicon.com. +A rewrite of MusicTeX, originally by Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler. +After quarrels, MusiXTeX has been split into two branches: -Musi*TeX, http://www.gmd.de/misc/music +=item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/ -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. +Daniel Taupin's now maintains the branch that still carries +the name MusiXTeX. -ABC2MTeX +=item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/achermann/ -Chris Walshaw, ABC2MTeX --- An easy way of transcribing folk -and traditional music. School of Maths, University of Greenwich, 1993. +Andreas Egler's branch is now called OpusTeX. -SceX +=item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc -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. +A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and +traditional music. -MUTEX +=item SceX http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/SceX.html -Fran\ccois Jalbert, MuTeX User's Guide (Version 1.1). Computer -Science Department, University of British Columbia, 1989. +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 + +=item Score, http://www.ymusic.com/Score + +Werner Lemberg 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 :-) + -Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius +=item Personal Composer -Finale +=item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/ -Score +A shareware windows package -Musicator +=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 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/ +=over 4 + +=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". + +=back + +=head2 Other stuff + +=over 4 + +=item Sonata, http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/F/F_SONA.html + +The music font by Adobe. + +=item Haskore, http://haskell.systemscz.cs.yale.edu/haskore/onlinetutorial/index.html + +A programming system for music, based on Haskell, a functional +programming language. It outputs MIDI, CSound, NeXTStep MusicKit and +CMN. + + + +=back +