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From: cak@purdue.UUCP (Christopher A. Kent)
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for music typesetting systems?
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Date: Wed, 7-May-86 02:24:57 EDT
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I believe that Professional Composer, from Mark of the Unicorn, is
still the best system on the market for the music copyist. It really
was designed that way, rather than a music playing/composing program
like MusicWorks, so the emphasis is on music copying rather than music
playing.

It handles just about everything you might want, I believe (I've read
many reviews but never actually touched one.) I don't know about
terribly modern pieces; they've been developing some very odd notation
lately.

There was a fairly in-depth review in the Computer Music Journal a few
issues ago; done by a musician/computer user, rather than a computer
tech writer. His opinion was that if you were doing serious score work,
this was the only product that came close to being adequate.

Unfortunately, ProfComp is quite pricey -- $495.

Cheers,
chris