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From: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.micro.mac
Subject: Suggestions for music typesetting systems?
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Date: Mon, 5-May-86 14:45:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 14:45:01 1986
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A friend of mine does music transcription for a living and wonders if there
are musical typesetting systems that would be worth her using.  She will settle
for less-than-typeset quality so long as it's decent; she imagines that typical
customers would be music composition students.  She does it by hand now, but it
takes so long to do that she has to charge a lot.

It is important that it be able to handle fairly complicated musical notation
such as is found in most modern music these days.  It would be really nice if
it could automatically take a conductor's score and split it up into parts.

I gather that there is a fair amount of stuff like this for the mac.
Suggestions about good or bad software would be appreciated, along with how
big a mac you need to run it, the price, and so forth.  My friend is an
impoverished rural housewife so if she could get a usable system for $2500 or
so that would be great.

Please send me mail, I'll summarize if there's interest.
-- 
John R. Levine, {ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl
Levine@YALE.EDU

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