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From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted,comp.music,alt.sources.d
Subject: Seeking Music Notation Program
Message-ID: <4679@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 20 Dec 89 17:23:00 GMT
Reply-To: dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West)
Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Organization: The Forgotten Legions of ... um ... er ...
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Can anyone point me to PD or FreeWare programs to print music
using an IBM PC clone and 9-pin printer?  I'm not (yet!) looking
for bells, whistles and publication quality, just something a little 
better than handwriting.   I know there are commercial packages that do 
this very well, but I can't afford them.

If GhostScript understood 9-pin printers, I could probably hack
a first approximation to this, but it doesn't.  (Yet? Rumors?)  
On the other hand, I could do an awful lot of hand transcription in the
time it would take to hack this reasonably well.  
On the third hand, the G-clef only needs to be encoded once in
vector format, so if someone's done it...

-David West      dhw@iti.org