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From: ricec@stolaf.UUCP (Craig D. Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Wanted:  Music on a laserprinter
Message-ID: <182@stolaf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 16:51:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: stolaf.182
Posted: Tue Jul 21 16:51:55 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 02:00:17 EDT
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Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.
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Keywords: Bach, Imagen, SMUT


	We are thinking about developing a package to print music
on our Imagen laserprinter.  Has anyone done any development on such
a project that will take a textfile and convert it into something
suitable for output on a laserprinter?

	Our goal is to produce a program which can print parts as
well as a complete score for a piece of music.

	I heard about this originally in the book "Metamagical Themas"
by Douglas R. Hofstadter, in which Dr. Donald Byrd had used a program
called "SMUT" to print some of the music found in the book.  I called
Dr. Byrd at Indiana University, but found that he had left the University
to start his own company.  If anyone has any idea where I might get ahold
of Dr. Byrd, I would be very interested.

	Thanks for any information -- please mail responses to me, rather
than posting to this newsgroup.  If there is a lot of interest, I will post
a summary of what I find out to this newsgroup.

Craig


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	Craig D. Rice
	Math Department Computer Systems Manager
	Academic Computer Center Systems Programmer
	St. Olaf College
	Northfield, MN   55057

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