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+                Mup - Music Publication Program Highlights
+
+       1.  The Mup Music Publication program
+
+       Mup is a shareware music publication program.  Mup Version
+       5.3 is now available in source form as well as ready-to-run
+       for MS-DOS/Windows and Linux x86.  There is also a Mac
+       version available.
+
+       Music is described by a text file that you can create using
+       your favorite editor or the included Mupmate program.  Mup
+       then determines how to lay out the music, and generates
+       PostScript output for displaying or printing it.  It is a
+       powerful and flexible program, which has been used on
+       thousands of songs in a wide variety of styles, both
+       instrumental and vocal.
+
+       Mup's features include:
+
+          - Up to 40 staffs, which can include 1-line, 5-line, and
+            tablature staffs.  Output can be restricted to any
+            subset of the staffs.  Different staffs can be
+            different sizes.
+
+          - Up to 3 independent voices per staff, up to 70
+            simultaneous notes per voice.
+
+          - Double whole to 256th notes, with any number of dots.
+            Tuplets.
+
+          - Note styles of normal, grace, cue, X, diamond, plus
+            shaped notes.  Optional parentheses around notes and/or
+            accidentals.
+
+          - Cross-staff stems.
+
+          - Time signatures of cut, common, or numerators from 1 to
+            99 and denominators from 1 to 64.  Complicated time
+            signatures, including numerators with two or more
+            numbers added together, or two or more fractions added
+            together, or alternating time signatures.
+
+          - All standard clefs, including treble, treble8, 8treble,
+            French violin, soprano, mezzosoprano, alto, tenor,
+            baritone, and bass, as well as the drum (neutral) clef.
+            Clefs can be changed in the middle of measures.
+
+          - Barline styles of single, double, dashed, dotted, end,
+            repeats, or none.
+
+          - 8th note and shorter notes can have either flags or
+            beams; beams can be cross-staff.
+
+          - Guitar grids
+
+          - Lyrics can be placed above, below, or between staffs.
+            Unlimited number of verses, with control of font and
+            size.
+
+          - Headers and footers.
+
+          - Staffs can be grouped with braces or brackets.
+
+          - Automatic transposition of music and chord marks per
+            staff.
+
+          - First and subsequent endings.
+
+          - Optional rehearsal marks and/or automatic measure
+            numbering.  Rehearsal marks can be boxed, circled, or
+            plain.
+
+          - Crescendo/decrescendo marks.
+
+          - Rolls, ornaments, fermatas, accents.
+
+          - Measure repeats.
+
+          - Ties, slurs, phrase marks, octave marks, piano pedal
+            marks, etc.  Ties, slurs, and phrase marks can be
+            solid, dotted, or dashed.
+
+          - Suport for figured bass, analysis, and chords.
+
+          - Optional MIDI file output. (Very useful for "proof-
+            listening" to your songs to check for input mistakes!)
+
+          - PostScript output for printing on any PostScript
+            compatible output device.  Can be used with
+            Ghostscript.
+
+          - All standard PostScript fonts supported, in 1 to 100
+            point size, including most common non-English
+            characters.
+
+          - Input is a text file, for easy portability between
+            computer systems.
+
+          - Macros and 'include' files.
+
+          - General 'if' clauses that can be used to generate
+            different outputs based on values of parameters.
+
+          - Mup will determine how to lay out the music, but there
+            are numerous user controls available to fine-tune the
+            output to meet your specific needs.
+
+          - Comprehensive User's Guide provided in both PostScript
+            and HTML formats, including many examples.
+
+          - Mup is available via ftp to try out for free.  If you
+            like it and want to keep it, the shareware registration
+            is far lower than the cost of most music publication
+            software.