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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.
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