music-research@HPLPM.HPL.HP.COM (11/18/90)
Music-Research Digest Sun, 18 Nov 90 Volume 5 : Issue 96
Today's Topics:
Important note for readers outside the United Kingdom
Music Macros for TeX . .
public domain music notation sw?
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 19:55:36 GMT
From: Stephen.Page@prg
Subject: Important note for readers outside the United Kingdom
To: music-research
Message-ID: <9011161955.AA06501@msc0.prg.ox.ac.uk>
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Date: 17 Nov 90 22:27:54 GMT
From: rich%news@edu.rice (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Music Macros for TeX . .
To: music-research@prg
Message-ID: <RICH.90Nov17142754@tahomah.Rice.edu>
In article <19644@oolong.la.locus.com> vera@locus.com (William Vera) writes:
In article <1990Nov15.161346.7516@ircam.ircam.fr> mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes nothing but:
> MusicTeX is so much better.
I agree.
Gee, that's nice..., hey everybody, there is something out there called
MusicTeX! Michel, instead of wasting time and net bandwidth by simply being
opinionated, how about explaining (for those who may not have heard of it)
what MusicTeX is and how it is better than Mutex. Inquiring minds would like
to know (without having to beg). Or is it that MusicTeX is not Public Domain
but rather proprietary to IRCAM, and therefore almost impossible for most
of us out here to obtain?
Musictex is better because it is an extension of mutex. There are
enhanced features as well as new features. Specificly, it supports
multiple staves more easily.
There is a copy of musictex available via anonymous ftp on
qed.rice.edu (128.42.4.38) in pub/musictex.tar.Z. This is an alpha
test distribution, which means you should expect to find some bugs in
it. I've been unable to contact the author, and have been told that
at this point in time he would prefer to concentrate on development
rather than support. You need tex and possibly metafont as well to
use musictex.
Musictex is freely redistributable. If you need more info, get it and
read the documentation.
Rich
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Date: 18 Nov 90 01:05:19 GMT
From: mgresham%artsnet@edu.gatech (Mark Gresham)
Subject: public domain music notation sw?
To: music-research@prg
Message-ID: <1002@artsnet.UUCP>
In article <1990Nov13.182950.661@medtron.medtronic.com> sh0001@medtron.medtronic.com (Scott Hansohn) writes:
>Finale (by Coda) provides fairly extensive support for generating Guitar
>tablature. [...]
Check out the new Version 3.0 of SCORE. A vast set of
improvements over the 2.x versions. Includes symbols for old lute
tablature, even. Greatest improvements, though, seem to be in the
text-handling capabilities and further refinement of slurs, ties,
and tuplet brackets. The whole feel of the program seems
smoother, BTW. Now supporting up to 32 staves per page, and has a
revised standalone pagination program (PAGE) that is different from the
2.x PAGE and improves upon part extraction as well.
Cheers,
--Mark
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