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.
30 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Jan Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen Nienhuys.
31 It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond. MPP is still available via
34 =item LilyPond, http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/index.html
36 Added for completeness. You are currently reading her documentation.
38 =item Music, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/ef/printing.html
40 A TROFF preprocessor by Eric Foxley.
42 =item PMX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
44 A Preprocessor for MusiXTeX by Don Simons.
48 A Preprocessor to PMX by Dirk Laurie.
50 =item Musictex, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
52 MusicTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or
53 instrumental music. It was originally written by Daniel Taupin.
55 It includes a full-featured (but slightly unsightly) set of fonts.
57 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
59 A rewrite of MusicTeX, originally by Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler.
60 After quarrels, MusiXTeX has been split into two branches:
62 =item MusiXTeX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
64 Daniel Taupin's now maintains the branch that still carries
67 =item OpusTeX, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/acherman/misc.html
69 Andreas Egler's branch is now called OpusTeX.
71 =item ABC2MTeX, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc
73 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Chris Walshaw for transcribing folk and
76 =item SceX http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/SceX.html
78 A preprocessor to MusixTeX by Miguel Filgueiras. Source in prolog
79 available on request. (?)
81 =item MUTEX, http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/
83 A TeX macro package for typesetting single-staff music by Angelika
84 Schofer & Andrea Steinbach. With some fonts.
88 =head2 Free (zero cents)
92 =item Calliope, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/wfc/
94 A NeXT package by William F. Clocksin. Requires the Adobe Sonata font.
102 =item Scribe, http://adu1.adu.lattrobe.edu.au/Music/Scribe.html
104 A formatter for medieval scores.
106 =item Mup, http://www.arkkra.com/
108 A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with
109 C source code, it is shareware.
111 =item MusicEase, http://mesa.colorado.edu/~grader/musicez.html
113 Described in Computer vol 29(6). Shareware
115 =item LIME, http://datura.cerl.uiuc.edu/
117 Notation editor for W95 and Mac
119 =item Sibelius, http://www.acorn.co.uk/developers/sibelius/Home
121 Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best
122 notation program available''. In any case, they are good at bragging.
124 =item [``EDV-Notensatz'']
126 URW's music-engraving system described by [Wanske]. (Although URW
127 used ~DM 1.000.000 while developing this, it didn't buy them a cute
130 =item Logic, http://www.emagic.com/
134 =item Score, http://www.ymusic.com/Score
136 Werner Lemberg <sx0005@sx2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de> writes: I consider
137 SCORE as the best program for typesetting classical music. [..] the
138 price is quite high (about US$ 1000) [..] It has a graphical
139 interface but to get all out of the program you have to learn a 400
140 page manual almost by heart because you'll change most features by
141 inputting parameters (up to 20 for some items) on a command
142 line. Expect three months to master SCORE :-)
145 =item Personal Composer
147 =item Mozart, http://www.mozart.co.uk/
149 A shareware windows package
157 =item Noteworthy, http://www.ntworthy.com
161 =item WolfGang, http://www.unige.ch/lettres/armus/music/wolfgang.html
163 =item Amadeus, Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se
165 Jerker Elsgard <Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se> writes: professional and
166 expensive (DM 4000,--) engraving. Designed as a batch program (like
167 LilyPond). It is aimed at publishers. Its history is more than
168 fifteen years and Amadeus has been running under different Unix
169 clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input
177 =item MusE, [no WWW address known]
179 A-R Music Engraving, by A-R Editions, Inc. Professional engraving on
182 =item MusiCopy, [no WWW address]
184 A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987.
185 The technical reports that have resulted from MusiCopy can still be
186 obtained by writing to OSU department of Computer Science.
189 =item Berlioz, http://www.?.fr/
191 Dominique Montel (a professional music typesetter) is now working
192 together with computer scientists on his own software for music
193 publishing, called "Berlioz".
201 =item Sonata, http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/F/F_SONA.html
203 The music font by Adobe.
205 =item Haskore, http://haskell.systemsz.cs.yale.edu/haskore/onlinetutorial/index.html
207 A programming system for music, based on Haskell, a functional
208 programming language. It outputs MIDI, CSound, NeXTStep MusicKit and