kelpie@nwnexus.WA.COM (Anthony C. Garland) (11/09/90)
Are there any public-domain programs which facilitate writing (fairly simple) music notation and printing it to a laser printer? I expect to eventually have to pay good money to do advanced stuff, but I'm just looking for something simple to get started with. Also, has anyone seen ANY music notation packages which support tablature (ala guitar in non-standard tuning) to any extent? Last, but not least, are there notation programs which can read or produce files in some sort of semi-standard format (so that a person could write an application to convert tablature into a valid input file for automatic display in standard music format)? - Tony Garland kelpie@nwnexus.wa.com
sh0001@medtron.medtronic.com (Scott Hansohn) (11/14/90)
Finale (by Coda) provides fairly extensive support for generating Guitar tablature. As with other things in Finale, you have an amazing degree of control over the output format, available only by mastering an amazingly complex/frustrating user interface. Once you get used to it though. . . Briefly, you can completely define the staves your music is to be displayed on. There are defaults for the Western 5-line staves, but you can define custom ones to support microtonal, etc.
mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham) (11/18/90)
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 ======================================== Mark Gresham ARTSNET Norcross, GA, USA E-mail: ...gatech!artsnet!mgresham or: artsnet!mgresham@gatech.edu ========================================