<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE> Mup User's Guide </TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <P> This is the on-line version of the Mup User's Guide, giving information about how to use the Mup Music Publication program. </P> <H2> Mup Background Information </H2> <A HREF="intro.html">Introduction to Mup</A> <BR> <A HREF="basics.html">Quick tutorial on Mup basics</A> <BR> <A HREF="running.html">Running Mup</A> <BR> <A HREF="cmdargs.html">Mup Options</A> <BR> <A HREF="utilpgms.html">Mup utility programs for displaying and printing music</A> <BR> <A HREF="gensyn.html">Mup General syntax information</A> <BR> <A HREF="contexts.html">Mup contexts</A> <BR> <HR> <H2> Basic Standard Music Notation </H2> <A HREF="music.html">Specifying Mup music input</A> <BR> <A HREF="chordinp.html">Chords (pitch, duration, and other attributes)</A> <BR> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="chordinp.html#letter">Notes, rests, or spaces</A> <LI> <A HREF="chordinp.html#measdur">Measure duration</A> <LI> <A HREF="chordinp.html#acc">Accidentals</A> <LI> <A HREF="chordinp.html#oct">Octave</A> <LI> <A HREF="chordinp.html#shorthnd">Shorthand notations</A> <LI> <A HREF="noteattr.html">Note attributes</A> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="noteattr.html#small">Small note head</A> <LI> <A HREF="noteattr.html#ntie">Note tie</A> <LI> <A HREF="noteattr.html#nslur">Slurs</A> <LI> <A HREF="noteattr.html#ntag">Note location tag</A> </UL> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html">Chord attributes</A> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#chstyle">Chord style (grace, cue, xnote, diamond)</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#shaped">Shaped notes</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#withlist">Symbols to be printed with a chord</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#slashes">Slashes</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#stemdir">Stem direction</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#stemlen">Stem length</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#pad">Chord padding</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#ctag">Chord location tag</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#hoffset">Horizontal offset</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#dist">Rest distance</A> <LI> <A HREF="chrdattr.html#rptattr">Shorthand for repeated attributes</A> </UL> <LI> <A HREF="midmeas.html">Mid-measure parameter changes</A> <LI> <A HREF="crossst.html">Cross-staff stems</A> <LI> <A HREF="ichdattr.html">Inter-chord attributes</A> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="ichdattr.html#tie">Chord ties</A> <LI> <A HREF="ichdattr.html#slur">Chord slurs</A> <LI> <A HREF="ichdattr.html#custbeam">Custom beaming</A> <LI> <A HREF="ichdattr.html#crossbm">Cross-staff beams</A> <LI> <A HREF="ichdattr.html#alt">Alternation groups</A> </UL> <LI> <A HREF="tuplets.html">Tuplets</A> </UL> <BR> <A HREF="altinp.html">Chord-at-a-time input style</A> <BR> <A HREF="bars.html">Bar lines</A> <BR> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="bars.html#bpad">Bar line padding</A> <LI> <A HREF="bars.html#btag">Bar line location tag</A> <LI> <A HREF="bars.html#endings">Endings</A> <LI> <A HREF="bars.html#reh">Rehearsal marks</A> <LI> <A HREF="bars.html#setmnum">Setting the measure number</A> <LI> <A HREF="bars.html#hide">Hiding time/key signature and clef changes</A> </UL> <A HREF="multirst.html">Multirests</A> <BR> <A HREF="lyrics.html">Lyrics</A> <HR> <H2> Tablature </H2> <A HREF="tabstaff.html">Tablature notation</A> <HR> <H2> Shaped notes </H2> <A HREF="shaped.html">Shaped notes</A> <HR> <H2> Text Strings </H2> <A HREF="textstr.html">Mup text strings</A> <HR> <H2> Tempo, dynamic marks, ornaments, etc. </H2> <A HREF="stuff.html">General Information</A> <BR> <A HREF="textmark.html">Text</A> <BR> <A HREF="textmark.html#grids">Guitar grids</A> <BR> <A HREF="mussym.html">Music symbols</A> <BR> <A HREF="phrase.html">Phrase marks</A> <BR> <A HREF="cres.html">Crescendo and decrescendo marks</A> <BR> <A HREF="octave.html">Octave marks</A> <BR> <A HREF="pedal.html">Piano pedal marks</A> <BR> <A HREF="roll.html">Rolls</A> <HR> <H2> Tags, printing text, lines and curves </H2> <A HREF="tags.html">Location tags</A> <BR> <A HREF="prnttext.html">Printing text</A> <BR> <A HREF="linecurv.html">Lines and curves</A> <HR> <H2> Miscellaneous Mup features </H2> <A HREF="newscore.html">Newscore and newpage</A> <BR> <A HREF="headfoot.html">Page headers and footers</A> <BR> <A HREF="macros.html">Macros</A> <BR> <A HREF="ifclause.html">Generalized if clauses</A> <BR> <A HREF="include.html">Include files</A> <BR> <A HREF="udefsym.html">User defined symbols</A> <BR> <A HREF="fontfile.html">Installing other fonts</A> <BR> <HR> <H2> Custom Accidentals and Alternate Tunings </H2> <A HREF="tuning.html">Custom Accidentals and Alternate Tunings</A> <HR> <H2> Mup Parameters </H2> <A HREF="param.html">Mup parameters</A> <HR> <H2> Hints </H2> <A HREF="debug.html">Debugging</A> <BR> <A HREF="adjust.html">Adjusting output</A> <BR> <A HREF="invisbar.html">Special uses of invisible bars</A> <BR> <A HREF="chant.html">Chant</A> <BR> <A HREF="sharehd.html">Forcing shared note heads</A> <BR> <A HREF="mantup.html">Manually placed tuplet numbers</A> <BR> <A HREF="manual.html">Manual placement of notes</A> <BR> <A HREF="brackmac.html">Bracketing notes across staffs</A> <BR> <A HREF="crossbar.html">Cross-bar beaming</A> <BR> <A HREF="lyrtag.html">Printing relative to lyric syllables</A> <BR> <A HREF="slantxt.html">Printing slanted text</A> <BR> <A HREF="mixtsig.html">Mixed time signatures</A> <BR> <A HREF="trnspose.html">Transposition</A> <BR> <A HREF="tempochg.html">Marking complicated tempo changes</A> <BR> <A HREF="multsong.html">Placing several songs on one page</A> <BR> <A HREF="cadenza.html">Cadenzas</A> <BR> <A HREF="verses.html">Placing verses below the scores</A> <BR> <A HREF="pianored.html">Automatic piano reduction</A> <BR> <A HREF="slashmrk.html">Diagonal slash marks</A> <BR> <A HREF="breathmk.html">Breath marks</A> <BR> <A HREF="heeltoe.html">Organ pedal heel and toe marks</A> <BR> <A HREF="muspaper.html">Generating blank staff paper</A> <BR> <A HREF="pscoord.html">Passing multiple coordinates to PostScript</A> <BR> <A HREF="pstools.html">Converting Mup files to other formats</A> <HR> <H2> MIDI output </H2> <A HREF="midi.html">Basic Information</A> <BR> <A HREF="gradmidi.html">Gradual MIDI Changes</A> <BR> <HR> <P> <A HREF="mupindex.html">Index</A> </P> <HR> <P> <ADDRESS> Arkkra Enterprises <BR> <A HREF="mailto:support@arkkra.com">support@arkkra.com</A> <BR> <A HREF="http://www.arkkra.com">http://www.arkkra.com</A> </ADDRESS> </P> <HR> <P> Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 by Arkkra Enterprises </P> <HR><P> <A HREF="intro.html">next page --></A> </P> </BODY></HTML>