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Linux Journal: At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software for Linux, Part 2

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“Last month I introduced the ABC music notation system. This
month, I continue our tour of notation programs for Linux with a
look at the Common Music Notation system from composer/programmer
Bill Schottstaedt.

“Common Music Notation (CMN) is a Lisp-based language for
creating and editing musical scores. It provided a full complement
of music symbols and other scoring amenities, such as score sizing
and text underlay. Output from CMN is in the Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) format, which is printable by any
PostScript-compatible printer. In addition, your output files can
be viewed with standard Linux PostScript viewers, such as GhostView
and GhostScript…”

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