Among other issues, it pointed out the differences between these two approaches to scorewriter software design, and the problems associated with each approach.

It was published with version 2 of the scorewriter software Sibelius as an example score.

A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text.

Since some people used tonica mainly to print musical scores, the idea for a scorewriter was born.

This added enhancements, including support for low colour modes, required by scorewriter Sibelius and many games.

A scorewriter, or music notation processor, is software used for creating sheet music.

For comparison, the shortest notated duration supported by any scorewriter program is the 4096th note.

Sibelius claims to be the world's best-selling scorewriter, with "hundreds of thousands of users in 100 countries".

Cut-out scores can be created with any full-featured scorewriter, such as Finale or Sibelius.

NoteEdit is a defunct music scorewriter for Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems.

MusiCAD is a scorewriter program originally designed for folk music featuring irregular meter (like 22/16 or 'worse').

Overture is a music scorewriter program for Windows and Macintosh platforms, written by Don Williams.

It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool.

NoteWorthy Composer (NWC) is a scorewriter application made by NoteWorthy Software.

MusicPrinter Plus is a DOS-based scorewriter program, created by Temporal Acuity Products, Inc.

Mozart the music processor is a proprietary WYSIWYG scorewriter, written by David Webber.

MusEdit is a scorewriter program for Microsoft Windows, developed by Doug Rogers / Yowza software and first launched in 1997.

Encore is a scorewriter program for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh, originally created in the 1990s by Don Williams for the US company Passport.

Forte is a is a music notation program or Scorewriter developed by the German company Lugert Verlag located in Handorf near Hamburg.

Forte is being "used by people and institutions from more than 40 countries", claims its publisher, which specializes in books, materials and magazines for musical education in schools, besides the scorewriter.

It is a complete scorewriter and notation editor with a feature set comparable to Sibelius or Finale, and supports a wide variety of file formats and input methods.

However, Overture is the first scorewriter program to feature full Virtual Studio Technology (VST) hosting; the software also plays MIDI files.

SCORE is a scorewriter program, written in FORTRAN for DOS by Professor Leland Smith.

SmartScore is a music OCR and scorewriter program, developed, published and distributed by Musitek Corporation based in Ojai, California, (Chris Newell, President).

'Sibelius' is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and RISC OS.