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From: gaspar@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: conversion programs to MusicTeX
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.111553.1470@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 27 Mar 91 10:15:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: urz.1991Mar27.111553.1470
References: <1991Mar24.145431.1464@urz.unibas.ch> <1991Mar26.112514.27938@athena.mit.edu> <1259@tusun2.mcs.utulsa.edu>
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In article <1259@tusun2.mcs.utulsa.edu>, prince@tusun2.mcs.utulsa.edu (Charlie Prince) writes:
> In article <1991Mar26.112514.27938@athena.mit.edu> jsc@kingtut.MIT.EDU (Jin S Choi) writes:
>>Speaking of which, has anyone written a preprocessor for MusicTeX or MuTeX?
> 
> Here's a silly question: Is there a difference between MusicTeX and MuTeX?
> I dug up a copy of MuTeX, and it was nothing like what I wanted (it only
> supported one-staff music, and I would really like full score capability).
> 
> So, in a nutshell -- Does MusicTeX (as opposed to MuTeX) let you do any more?
 
Yes, you can typeset music with as many (theoreticaly) staffs as you want.
The output it gives is amazing, but the language is not designed for humans.

cheers,
              laci