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| 2 | Mup - Music Publication Program Highlights | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | 1. The Mup Music Publication program | |
| 5 | ||
| 6 | Mup is a shareware music publication program. Mup Version | |
| 7 | 5.3 is now available in source form as well as ready-to-run | |
| 8 | for MS-DOS/Windows and Linux x86. There is also a Mac | |
| 9 | version available. | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | Music is described by a text file that you can create using | |
| 12 | your favorite editor or the included Mupmate program. Mup | |
| 13 | then determines how to lay out the music, and generates | |
| 14 | PostScript output for displaying or printing it. It is a | |
| 15 | powerful and flexible program, which has been used on | |
| 16 | thousands of songs in a wide variety of styles, both | |
| 17 | instrumental and vocal. | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | Mup's features include: | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | - Up to 40 staffs, which can include 1-line, 5-line, and | |
| 22 | tablature staffs. Output can be restricted to any | |
| 23 | subset of the staffs. Different staffs can be | |
| 24 | different sizes. | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | - Up to 3 independent voices per staff, up to 70 | |
| 27 | simultaneous notes per voice. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | - Double whole to 256th notes, with any number of dots. | |
| 30 | Tuplets. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | - Note styles of normal, grace, cue, X, diamond, plus | |
| 33 | shaped notes. Optional parentheses around notes and/or | |
| 34 | accidentals. | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | - Cross-staff stems. | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | - Time signatures of cut, common, or numerators from 1 to | |
| 39 | 99 and denominators from 1 to 64. Complicated time | |
| 40 | signatures, including numerators with two or more | |
| 41 | numbers added together, or two or more fractions added | |
| 42 | together, or alternating time signatures. | |
| 43 | ||
| 44 | - All standard clefs, including treble, treble8, 8treble, | |
| 45 | French violin, soprano, mezzosoprano, alto, tenor, | |
| 46 | baritone, and bass, as well as the drum (neutral) clef. | |
| 47 | Clefs can be changed in the middle of measures. | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | - Barline styles of single, double, dashed, dotted, end, | |
| 50 | repeats, or none. | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | - 8th note and shorter notes can have either flags or | |
| 53 | beams; beams can be cross-staff. | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | - Guitar grids | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | - Lyrics can be placed above, below, or between staffs. | |
| 58 | Unlimited number of verses, with control of font and | |
| 59 | size. | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | - Headers and footers. | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | - Staffs can be grouped with braces or brackets. | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | - Automatic transposition of music and chord marks per | |
| 66 | staff. | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | - First and subsequent endings. | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | - Optional rehearsal marks and/or automatic measure | |
| 71 | numbering. Rehearsal marks can be boxed, circled, or | |
| 72 | plain. | |
| 73 | ||
| 74 | - Crescendo/decrescendo marks. | |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | - Rolls, ornaments, fermatas, accents. | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | - Measure repeats. | |
| 79 | ||
| 80 | - Ties, slurs, phrase marks, octave marks, piano pedal | |
| 81 | marks, etc. Ties, slurs, and phrase marks can be | |
| 82 | solid, dotted, or dashed. | |
| 83 | ||
| 84 | - Suport for figured bass, analysis, and chords. | |
| 85 | ||
| 86 | - Optional MIDI file output. (Very useful for "proof- | |
| 87 | listening" to your songs to check for input mistakes!) | |
| 88 | ||
| 89 | - PostScript output for printing on any PostScript | |
| 90 | compatible output device. Can be used with | |
| 91 | Ghostscript. | |
| 92 | ||
| 93 | - All standard PostScript fonts supported, in 1 to 100 | |
| 94 | point size, including most common non-English | |
| 95 | characters. | |
| 96 | ||
| 97 | - Input is a text file, for easy portability between | |
| 98 | computer systems. | |
| 99 | ||
| 100 | - Macros and 'include' files. | |
| 101 | ||
| 102 | - General 'if' clauses that can be used to generate | |
| 103 | different outputs based on values of parameters. | |
| 104 | ||
| 105 | - Mup will determine how to lay out the music, but there | |
| 106 | are numerous user controls available to fine-tune the | |
| 107 | output to meet your specific needs. | |
| 108 | ||
| 109 | - Comprehensive User's Guide provided in both PostScript | |
| 110 | and HTML formats, including many examples. | |
| 111 | ||
| 112 | - Mup is available via ftp to try out for free. If you | |
| 113 | like it and want to keep it, the shareware registration | |
| 114 | is far lower than the cost of most music publication | |
| 115 | software. |