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 Reference Manual

• Description of the init file read by Dmuse at startup
• Keyboard command list in Dmuse
• Description of the Menu bar
• Resident file manager commands
• Color and upper-ASCII codes in Dmuse text files
• Zbex programming language
• MuseData file specification

Dmuse Internal Help Documentation

• Introduction to Dmuse
• Using the Screen Editor
• Editor quick reference
• Resident File Manager
• MPG file format
• CFT file format
• TIFF file format
• Advanced Topics
• New Directions
• Displaying music
• Printing music

Other

• Dmuse feature requests
• Quirky behaviors in Dmuse