                            NOTA MUSICA
                       Demonstration Version 2.5


1. General Information on this Version of Nota Musica
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This is a demonstration version of Nota Musica.
You are allowed to try this program and you may share it with other people.
You are not allowed to debug and/or change this program.

This demonstration version of Nota Musica has limited functionality:
- 50 notes per voice (normally unlimited)
- 4 voices per movement (instead of 256)
- 3 movements per piece (instead of 256)
- pieces can't be printed
  (sample print-outs in form of graphic files in several resolutions
  (300, 360, 600 DPI) are in the files "exmplxxx.zip"/)

2. How to create the installation disk for Nota Musica
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1. Get Info-ZIP's Unzip 5.12 (available from hobbes.nmsu.edu).
2. Unzip the contents of nota25de.zip to an empty and formatted disk
   (for example by typing 'unzip nota25de.zip -d a:\').

Read the file 'manual' or 'manual.inf' on the installation disk for
information on how to install and use Nota Musica.


3. Ordering Information
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Nota Musica is available in English and German. To get information or to
order Nota Musica write to the following addresses:

  Johannes Martin Software-Entwicklung
  z.Hd. Herrn Ludger Martin
  Pfarrer-Dorn-Strae 26
  D-55127 Mainz-Marienborn
  Germany
  E-Mail: L.Martin@TeamOS2.de
  Internet: http://www.teamos2.de/software/notamusica

The price for Nota Musica, Version 2.5 is currently $99 (169,00 DM)
(December 1997). Nota Musica ships with MusicTeX and emTeX in a version
adjusted to Nota Musica.


4. Notes
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Nota Musica was originally written in German. Please excuse and report
any incorrect translations. It is not easy to translate a music related
program.

Future version will offer the following features:
 - improvement of the graphical editor
 - support of more file formats for import and export (WAV-Files)
 - VoiceType integration
