tpo@dde.uucp (Thomas P.S. Olesen) (07/14/88)
Hello world
I have heard of a troff macro package for music printing.
Is there any body, who know any thing about it.
What is it called ?
Is it public domain ?
If yes , where can I get it ?
Please E-mail.
/Thomas
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or tpo@dde.dkramsey@cs.purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) (07/29/88)
From article <463@Aragorn.dde.uucp>, by tpo@dde.uucp (Thomas P.S. Olesen): > I have heard of a troff macro package for music printing. > Is there any body, who know any thing about it. > Please E-mail. Please Post! -- -Ed Ramsey Purdue University Computer Science Department ramsey@cs.purdue.edu ...!purdue!ramsey
igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten <BattenIG>) (08/01/88)
In article <4573@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> ramsey@cs.purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes: > From article <463@Aragorn.dde.uucp>, by tpo@dde.uucp (Thomas P.S. Olesen): > > I have heard of a troff macro package for music printing. > > Is there any body, who know any thing about it. > > Please E-mail. > > Please Post! > > -- > -Ed Ramsey Purdue University Computer Science Department > ramsey@cs.purdue.edu ...!purdue!ramsey There was a paper presented by Eric Foxley of Nottingham University at a Uk UUG meeting last July on a package he wrote to do this. But I recall it had some nasty licensing problems --- Adobe manuscript fonts or something? I don't have the proceedings to hand to get his e-mail address, but I think it was ef@cs.nott.ac.uk. Mail postmaster@cs.nott.ac.uk and ask him. -- ian INTERNET: BattenIG%cs.bham.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu JANET: BattenIG@uk.ac.bham.cs BITNET: BattenIG%cs.bham.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet UUCP: ...!mcvax!bhamcs!BattenIG
jpo@cs.nott.ac.uk (Julian Onions) (08/02/88)
In article <360@james.cs.bham.ac.uk> igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten <BattenIG>) writes: >In article <4573@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> ramsey@cs.purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes: >> From article <463@Aragorn.dde.uucp>, by tpo@dde.uucp (Thomas P.S. Olesen): >> > I have heard of a troff macro package for music printing. > >There was a paper presented by Eric Foxley of Nottingham University at a >Uk UUG meeting last July on a package he wrote to do this. Yes, this is correct. Eric wrote such a program and although I haven't checked recently I believe that it is still a pic preprocessor. The results, to my untrained eye, are pretty good - miles better than hand scribbled manuscript anyway. It runs in several modes, the best output being if you use a music font such as Adobe's Sonata. Alternatively, I believe it still has the means to generate it's own characters in some fashion. Anyway, I believe the software is without restrictions and has been distributed to a number of people. Eric is on holiday at present, but should be back in a week or two, if you want futher details I should mail him (ef@cs.nott.ac.uk). I don't believe he reads much news if any so mail is far better. Julian. -- Julian Onions
anw@nott-cs.UUCP (08/03/88)
In article <360@james.cs.bham.ac.uk> igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten <BattenIG>) writes: >In article <4573@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> ramsey@cs.purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes: >> From article <463@Aragorn.dde.uucp>, by tpo@dde.uucp (Thomas P.S. Olesen): >> > [ request for troff macro package for music printing ] > > [ Eric Foxley's package ] a) Eric is out of town for a few weeks. b) The package is Yet Another *roff Pre-processor. c) *If* you want top-quality laserwritten stuff, it uses Adobe's "Sonata" font, but it was working quite happily before we had this, eg to a dot-matrix printer. d) I have documentation, but (of course) it's useless in source form without the package itself. [How do you print the examples to see what they're examples of?] e) *I'm* reasonably impressed by its output; beams, etc., are done in a modestly artistic way. Compares well with mass-printed music; not a patch on the hand-printed stuff of the mid 19th century [but I'm biassed]. f) Any further details had better come from Eric. > [ EF's e-mail address ] Mail postmaster@cs.nott.ac.uk and ask him. Don't bother: ef@maths.nott.ac.uk and ef@cs.nott.ac.uk should both work. He is one in the morning, the other in the afternoon. Don't expect any reply until September! -- Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK. anw@maths.nott.ac.uk