
                Mup - Music Publication Program Highlights

       1.  The Mup Music Publication program

       Mup is a shareware music publication program.  Mup Version
       5.5 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 to try out for free.  If you like it
            and want to keep it, the registration fee is far lower
            than the cost of most music publication software.
