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From: anw@nott-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Troff music printing
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Date: 2 Aug 88 17:14:57 GMT
References: <463@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <4573@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <360@james.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The University, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 2RD, 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):
>> > [ request for troff macro package for music printing ]
>
> [ Eric Foxley's package ]

     a) Eric is out of town for a few weeks.
     b) The package is Yet Another *roff Pre-processor.
     c) *If* you want top-quality laserwritten stuff, it uses Adobe's
	"Sonata" font, but it was working quite happily before we had
	this, eg to a dot-matrix printer.
     d) I have documentation, but (of course) it's useless in source form
	without the package itself.  [How do you print the examples to see
	what they're examples of?]
     e) *I'm* reasonably impressed by its output;  beams, etc., are done
	in a modestly artistic way.  Compares well with mass-printed music;
	not a patch on the hand-printed stuff of the mid 19th century [but
	I'm biassed].
     f) Any further details had better come from Eric.

> [ EF's e-mail address ]  Mail postmaster@cs.nott.ac.uk and ask him.

	Don't bother:  ef@maths.nott.ac.uk and ef@cs.nott.ac.uk should both
work.  He is one in the morning, the other in the afternoon.  Don't expect
any reply until September!

-- 
Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk