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diff --git a/misc/pmw/README b/misc/pmw/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7da89e5b41 --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/pmw/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Philip's Music Writer, previously called Philip's Music Scribe, was +written by Philip Hazel as a simple way for people to create sheet +music on a computer running the Linux operating system. + +pmw uses a special internal language to encode musical notation. Files +can be created and modified in any text editor. The pmw command-line +program translates the input text file into an output postscript file +of music manuscript, using a special "alphabet" of symbols. A user +manual in PDF format is provided as part of the package. + +Because it uses postscript, pmw requires ghostscript to be installed +on your system. + +An archived homepage can be viewed here: +https://web.archive.org/web/20190331211148/http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/ph10/pmw.html |