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tended to prefer text input scorewriters, because of the increased degree of control available. The learning of such text input requires more time investment by the user, so the notation was designed with the aim of being "both compact and easy to learn". The
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is provided to the software in textual form, which generates output to a printer or for saving in
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in 1993, and chapter 18 in Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes, MIT Press (1997,
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On-screen proof-reading was rudimentary on the Acorn Business Computer, which used the
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version (ported in 2003) is "back to its roots", being command line driven.
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The software was originally written in order for Hazel to typeset
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for screen output. The Arthur version initially ran at the
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Index

Original author(s)
Stable release
C
Operating system
Panos
RISC OS
Unix-like
Type
Scorewriter
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
quercite.dx.am/pmw.html
computing
scorewriter
Philip Hazel
Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities
free software
recorder
BCPL
IBM mainframe
University of Cambridge
Panos
Acorn Business Computer
Archimedes
Arthur
Unix-like
commercial software
free software
BBC Micro
command line

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