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| 2 | Mup - Music Publication Program Highlights |
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| 4 | 1. The Mup Music Publication program |
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| 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. |
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| 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: |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |