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From: jpo@cs.nott.ac.uk (Julian Onions)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.text
Subject: Re: Troff music printing
Summary: Yep, it's true
Message-ID: <2868@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Aug 88 08:09:01 GMT
References: <463@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <4573@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <360@james.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jpo@cs.nott.ac.uk (Julian Onions)
Organization: Computer Science, Nottingham Univ., UK.
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In article <360@james.cs.bham.ac.uk> igb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian G Batten <BattenIG>) writes:
>In article <4573@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> ramsey@cs.purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes:
>> From article <463@Aragorn.dde.uucp>, by tpo@dde.uucp (Thomas P.S. Olesen):
>> > I have heard of a troff macro package for music printing.
>
>There was a paper presented by Eric Foxley of Nottingham University at a
>Uk UUG meeting last July on a package he wrote to do this.  

Yes, this is correct. Eric wrote such a program and although I haven't
checked recently I believe that it is still a pic preprocessor. The
results, to my untrained eye, are pretty good - miles better than hand
scribbled manuscript anyway. It runs in several modes, the best output
being if you use a music font such as Adobe's Sonata. Alternatively, I
believe it still has the means to generate it's own characters in some
fashion. Anyway, I believe the software is without restrictions and has
been distributed to a number of people.

Eric is on holiday at present, but should be back in a week or two, if
you want futher details I should mail him (ef@cs.nott.ac.uk). I don't 
believe he reads much news if any so mail is far better.

Julian.
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Julian Onions