Dmuse

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. Here is a screenshot of dmuse, showing some text typed into the text editor in window 0:

dmuse window 0 with some text typed into it.

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Dmuse and related programs can be downloaded from this page.

Dmuse User Guide

1. Overview and history of Dmuse
2. Downloading and installing Dmuse
3. File organization and init file for Dmuse
4. Getting started with Dmuse
5. Text editing capabilities of Dmuse
6. Running zbex programs in Dmuse
7. MuseData file organization
8. How to print text files from within Dmuse
9. How to print a score in Dmuse
10. How to convert between CFT files and page files
11. How to print instrumental parts in Dmuse
12. How to create a score in Dmuse
13. How to create instrumental parts in Dmuse
14. How to enter music with a MIDI keyboard
15. 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 fonts

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. Generates a file called scform which is used to create an edition using vspace.
• vspace: Takes scform data file vskpage and processes page files to generate an edition which is a set of refined page files.
• 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

1. Introduction
2. Zbex programs in files and in other Dmuse windows
3. Properties of Zbex
4. Zbex utility programs
5. Variable declaration statements
6. Assignment statements
7. The run and stop statements
8. Input and output
9. Comments
10. Subscripts
11. Program control (loop, if, goto)
12. Relations
13. Functions
14. Procedures
15. Tables
16. Handling directories
17. Special variables and labels
18. Instructions for debugging
19. Conditional compiles and other features
20. Controlling the text display with putc
21. Graphics
22. MIDI instructions

• CCARH data formats: MuseData file specification

Dmuse internal documentation

• Browser display test

Dmuse help menu documentation

Files in dmuse/doc/help:

• Introduction to Dmuse
• Using the Screen Editor
• Editor quick reference
• Resident File Manager
• MPG file format
• CFT file format
• TIFF file format
• Advanced Topics (Wordwrap, INIT, Dictionaries, Zbex)
• New Directions
• Displaying music
• Printing music

File format specifications

Files in dmuse/doc/specs:

• MuseData Stage2 file specification
• I-file file specification (Intermediate file)
• MPG file specification (Music PaGe)
• CFT file specification (Compressed FormaT)

Program documentation

Files in dmuse/doc/progdoc:

• Introduction to Music Typsetting
• Music Processing, from Stage1 to Final Edition 28 April 2009
• Relationships among music typesetting programs 30 Nov 2009
• Documentation for the s2ed program 29 April 2009
• Instructions for running vspace.z
• Instructions for running vskpage.z
• Instructions for running pskpage.z
• Instructions for running mskpage.z
• Instructions for running dskpage.z
• Instructions for running autoset.z
• Instructions for the eskpage program
• Edform

Other

• Dmuse feature requests
• Quirky behaviors in Dmuse