15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
4:02 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Toby Thain wrote:
On 15/12/11 1:00 AM, Sean Conner wrote:
No mention of MusixTeX?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
It was thus said that the Great Chuck Guzis once
stated:
There's also LilyPond. http://lilypond.org/
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.