This is the on-line version of the Mup User's Guide, giving information about how to use the Mup Music Publication program.

Mup Background Information

Specifying Mup music input

• Notes, rests, or spaces
• Measure duration
• Accidentals
• Octave
• Shorthand notations
• Note attributes
  • Small note head
  • Note tie
  • Slurs
  • Note location tag
• Chord attributes
  • Chord style (grace, cue, xnote, diamond)
  • Symbols to be printed with a chord
  • Slashes
  • Chord padding
  • Chord location tag
  • Rest distance
  • Shorthand for repeated attributes
• Inter-chord attributes
  • Chord ties
  • Chord slurs
  • Custom beaming
  • Cross-staff beams
  • Alternation groups
• Tuplets

• Bar line padding
• Bar line location tag
• Endings
• Rehearsal marks
• Setting the measure number
• Hiding time/key signature and clef changes

Tablature

Text Strings

Mup Parameters

Tempo, dynamic marks, ornaments, etc

Tags, printing text, lines and curves

Miscellaneous Mup features

Hints

MIDI output