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- From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields)
- Subject: Re: Score?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.140415.17605@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <9211172056.AA00567@polar.bowdoin.edu> <downs.28.722059363@helios.nevada.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:04:15 GMT
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- In article <downs.28.722059363@helios.nevada.edu> downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes:
- >Speaking purely from hearsay, my understanding about Score is that you type
- >in an ASCII file and the program translates it into musical notation.
- >Supposedly puts out as good output as any other program, but sounds like a
- >bear to use.
-
- I used it for 2 years. This is a pretty good description of Score. Score
- is unique and idiomatic, and often requires the user to be concerned about
- how objects are stored internally in the program (as sequences of code
- numbers in FORTRAN arrays). It has its own way of doing page justification
- that is not based on having a scrolling view of a whole score but rather
- a bunch of separate files representing your first guess at breaking the
- score into separate systems...Its postscript output is beautiful, but in
- all the years that I've been around computers, the only person I've ever
- seen get anywhere near fluent in Score was the author of the program, who
- was quite a whiz at it.
-
- I continue my hypocrisy by using Finale for some small projects while publicly
- advocating pens and vellum (which I use for larger projects).
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