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      MuseScore Score Typesetter
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Features:
      - WYSIWYG design, notes are entered on a "virtual notepaper"
      - TrueType font(s) for printing & display allows for high quality
        scaling to all sizes
      - easy & fast note entry
      - many editing functions
      - MusicXML import/export
      - Midi (SMF) import/export
      - MuseData import
      - Midi input for note entry
      - integrated sequencer and software synthesizer to
        play the score
      - print or create pdf files

Licence:
      MuseScore is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
      Please read the file COPYING in this directory for more
      details.

Requirements:
      - qt4 gui lib version qt4.4.x

        Note that many linux distributions split packages into a user
        and developer package and that you need to install both.

      - ALSA Version 1.0 or newer (audio/midi input/output)
      - CMake >= 2.4.6

      - recommended: JACK audio server (audio output)

      - recommended: portaudio 19
        (required for windows version)

Credits:
      MuseScore uses the "Emmentaler" font from the lilypond project.

Installation:
      - unpack source distribution
            tar xvofj mscore-x.x.x.tar.bz2

      - make
            cd mscore-x.x.x
            make release

      if something goes wrong, then remove the whole build subdirectory
      with "make clean" and start new with "make release"

      - install as root user
            sudo make install

User Documentation:
      Look at the handbook section at http://www.musescore.org

Program Documentation:

      Type
            cd build
            make doxy

      to generate the program documentation with DoxyGen.

      Browse the documentation with your favourite html browser
      at:
            build/Doc/html/index.html


Test:
      Type
            cd build/mscore
            mscore

      to start mscore. On first invocation a demofile
      (Modeste Moussorgsky: Pictures of an exhibition: Promenade)
      is shown. You probably want to change that in the
      "preferences" dialog.

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      Status
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      MuseScore is in beta state. That means you should not use
      it for any mission critical work. It is incomplete and surely has
      a lot of bugs. Also the save format (*.msc files) will most likely
      change in future versions.

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      Help needed
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      We need your help!

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      Contact
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      Werner Schweer; ws@seh.de
      http://www.musescore.org/

