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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.text
Subject: Fonts for printing music
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 16:37:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 16:37:32 1985
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Are there any printed music fonts available, as part of a ms, mm or me
text formatting package?  If so, are they in the public domain and can
someone send me their locations?  If not, how would I generate printed
music?  What do the fonts look like?

Basically, what I want to do is something like eqn does, when I give the
program a file containing a sequence of note specifications (a note spec
can look like <note> <position relative to middle c> <duration>) it will
output the printed music in a specified key on the standard staff.  I
don't remember what the syntax of the BBN Bitgraph music compiler was, but
the syntax would be similar.  I'd like to also be able to generate rests,
tempo classifications (andante, allegro, etc.), volume levels (pp, p, f,
etc.), keywords (D.C., D.S., Fine, etc.).  There are probably other things
that go into printed music, like the words to music, which I'd like to
generate also, that I've forgotten.

I'll summarize to the net, of course.
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Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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