dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West) (12/21/89)
Can anyone point me to PD or FreeWare programs to print music using an IBM PC clone and 9-pin printer? I'm not (yet!) looking for bells, whistles and publication quality, just something a little better than handwriting. I know there are commercial packages that do this very well, but I can't afford them. If GhostScript understood 9-pin printers, I could probably hack a first approximation to this, but it doesn't. (Yet? Rumors?) On the other hand, I could do an awful lot of hand transcription in the time it would take to hack this reasonably well. On the third hand, the G-clef only needs to be encoded once in vector format, so if someone's done it... -David West dhw@iti.org
snoopy@sopwith (Snoopy) (12/28/89)
In article <4679@itivax.iti.org> dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West) writes: | If GhostScript understood 9-pin printers, I could probably hack | a first approximation to this, but it doesn't. (Yet? Rumors?) I've been sending Ghostscript output to a 9-pin printer for a year now. Ask Peter to include my drivers in the standard distribution. If you want to see it in 1.4, you'd better hurry, as 1.4 is currently in Beta test. (Seems much improved over 1.2 and 1.3!) The Hershey fonts include a bunch of music glyphs which can be used with Ghostscript. Is there a 'standard' encoding for PostScript music fonts? I'm working on a set of Hershey-based PostScript fonts for Ghostscript, but I don't want to introduce non-standard encodings if there is already something out there. _____ /_____\ Snoopy "I read banned newsgroups." /_______\ cse.ogi.edu!sopwith!snoopy |___| sun!nosun!qiclab!sopwith!snoopy |___| uunet!tektronix!tessi!illian!sopwith!snoopy