RE: music-notes

[Ted Harding]

On 28-Sep-99 address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know is there some add-on package to lout
> which would allow to include music-notes into text ?
> 
> Goal is not to write complete notes with it but
> only to imbed a music-line or one-two tacts into text. 
> I imagine something like equations @Eq{}. 
> 
> Thanks for tip
> (and also the previous one)
> Robert

I would suggest that your best (at any rate most flexible) option is
to use a proper music notation editor which can produce printed output as
an Encapsulated PostScript file, and then embed that file.

The one I like to use is called MUP (see http://www.arkkra.com ).
It has no GUI, being driven by a text file containing specifications
of the music; but with a bit of practice you should find that it is
quite easy to use. The quality of the printed output is excellent,
and its capabilities include nearly everything you might want to
annotate musically. There would be no problem creating small
"snapshots" of a few bars of music with MUP, though you would need
to take care with specifying the "page" size to be no bigger than
needed to show the score.

The small fly in the ointment is that it is shareware. Registration
costs US$25, and I have been very happy to pay that (you then also
get all future updates free). If you don't register, then the printed
output has a "watermark" in the background which says it hasn't been
registered ... (still usable, but not good for public purposes).

The best of luck,
Ted.

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Date: 29-Sep-99                                       Time: 11:48:43
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