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.

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 a score in Dmuse
9. How to print instrumental parts in Dmuse
10. How to create a score in Dmuse
11. How to create instrumental parts in Dmuse
12. How to enter music with a MIDI keyboard
13. How to create MIDI files from MuseData

Dmuse File Formats

• Dmuse text files
• MuseData stage1 files
• MuseData stage2 files
• i-files
• page files

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 Help Documentation

1. Browser display test

• 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

Other

• Dmuse feature requests
• Quirky behaviors in Dmuse