Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio Subject: Re: Music Publishing Software Message-ID: Date: 26 Apr 91 15:56:09 GMT References: <20949@cbmvax.commodore.com> Lines: 30 >In article <20949@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >I'm trying to track down a program capable of doing a decent job of desktop >music publishing. It doesn't have to actually play anything, just let the >user write music and get hot looking printouts (hopefully publication >quality, PostScript if possible) as reasonably as I can with text and graphics >in ProPage or PageStream. Anyone know if such a puppy exists on the Amiga >yet? Many thanks in advance, email or post the answers as y'all see fit. Dave, If you're a TeXnical type, you can use the MuTeX package and dvips to generate very nice postscript music output. It wouldn't have a hot user interface on it though. There's a good PD TeX available for the Amiga called PasTeX, it's on ab20.larc.nasa.gov. It was cross-compiled to assembler by GCC on a Sun 3 and then assembled on an Amiga. Tomas Rockiki's TeX for the Amiga does have a very cool user interface, is fully Arexx-programmable, and has excellent support. This coupled with MuTeX might be what you are looking for. In fact, it should be possible to write a program to allow you to write music on the screen, generate MuTeX output from that, and send it to TeX via Arexx. Hmmm. Another project... >Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" > {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy > "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |