15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
6 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once stated:
I don't think that Knuth ever brought up the subject of musical
notation, however. If he has, it would make interesting reading.
In both _Metamagical Themas_ and _Godel, Escher, Bach_, Douglas Hofstadter
used a program called SMUT to layout and print musical scores. SMUT was
written by Donald Byrd at Indiana University. And from the examples given,
it does an incredible job.
-spc