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* [[pskpage]]: Prints [[page files]] to a PCL printer. | * [[pskpage]]: Prints [[page files]] to a PCL printer. | ||
* [[dskpage]]: Similar to [[pskpage]], but displays [[page files]] as graphical music notation on the screen rather than printing. | * [[dskpage]]: Similar to [[pskpage]], but displays [[page files]] as graphical music notation on the screen rather than printing. | ||
| + | * Some program to generate parts? Or has that merged into mskpage? Mainly has to do with multi-rests. | ||
== Dmuse Reference Manual == | == Dmuse Reference Manual == | ||
Revision as of 18:25, 15 December 2010
Contents
Dmuse is an Integrated Development Environment for text editing/processing and graphical music notation rendering of MuseData, with a built-in interpretive programming language called zbex.
Dmuse User Guide
- Overview and history of Dmuse
- Downloading and installing Dmuse
- File organization and init file for Dmuse
- Getting started with Dmuse
- Text editing capabilities of Dmuse
- Running zbex programs in Dmuse
- MuseData file organization
- How to print a score in Dmuse
- How to print instrumental parts in Dmuse
- How to create a score in Dmuse
- How to create instrumental parts in Dmuse
- How to enter music with a MIDI keyboard
- How to create MIDI files from MuseData
Dmuse File Formats
- Dmuse text files
- MuseData stage1 files: Preliminary musical data created by MIDI keyboard entry.
- MuseData stage2 files: The primary musical data storage format.
- i-files: Intermediate graphical notation format, created by autoset from stage2 files.
- page files: Page description files for graphical notation, created by mskpage from i-files.
Dmuse Zbex Programs
- autoset: Converts stage2 files into i-files in preparation for music printing.
- mskpage: Converts i-files into page files for graphical music notation printing.
- eskpage: On-screen graphical music editor editor that displays and edits page files.
- vskpage: Further processing of page files which adjusts the inter-staff and inter-system spacing on pages.
- autoload: Downloads fonts to a PCL printer. Must be run before using pskpage.
- pskpage: Prints page files to a PCL printer.
- dskpage: Similar to pskpage, but displays page files as graphical music notation on the screen rather than printing.
- Some program to generate parts? Or has that merged into mskpage? Mainly has to do with multi-rests.
Dmuse Reference Manual
- Dmuse Keyboard command list
- Dmuse INIT file
- Dmuse Menu bar
- Resident file manager
- Color and character byte codes in Dmuse text files
- Zbex programming language
- Introduction
- Zbex programs in files and in other Dmuse windows
- Properties of Zbex
- Zbex utility programs
- Variable declaration statements
- Assignment statements
- The run and stop statements
- Input and output
- Comments
- Subscripts
- Program control (loop, if, goto)
- Relations
- Functions
- Procedures
- Tables
- Handling directories
- Special variables and labels
- Instructions for debugging
- Conditional compiles and other features
- Controlling the text display with putc
- Graphics
- MIDI instructions