Nobody ever seems to mention 'Capella', a very underrated and reasonably
priced music notating program. It cost me �120.00 a number of years ago, and
I ran it quite successfully on a Mac Performa 630 Dos compatible (had the pc
card inside). A friend in Holland used it to lay out a book of country dances
to tunes by Henry Purcell and the result is excellent.
There seem to be a number of programs on the market which produce quite
execrable music printing (my pet hate is the bar lines all above one another
straight down the page!)
I currently use Sibelius (which has come down considerably in price) as
it became available in a Mac dedicated version somewhat over a year ago. The
manual for it is one of the best computer program manuals I have ever seen.
It starts right from scratch (even tells you how to switch on the computer),
is full of humour ("Unless you have X-ray vision, you've managed to open the
box to get at this User Guide."), and has the great merit of the whole manual
(after a Quick Tour of the program in the first 60 pages) being in
alphabetical order.
Substantial discount off the price is available for anyone involved in
Teaching, too!
Nicolas B., Lanark.
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