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

Introduction to Mup
Quick tutorial on Mup basics
Running Mup
Mup Options
Mup utility programs for displaying and printing music
Mup General syntax information
Mup contexts

## Basic Standard Music Notation

Specifying Mup music input
Chords (pitch, duration, and other attributes)

- 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)
  - Shaped notes
  - Symbols to be printed with a chord
  - Slashes
  - Stem direction
  - Stem length
  - Chord padding
  - Chord location tag
  - Horizontal offset
  - Rest distance
  - Shorthand for repeated attributes
- Mid-measure parameter changes
- Cross-staff stems
- Inter-chord attributes
  - Chord ties
  - Chord slurs
  - Custom beaming
  - Cross-staff beams
  - Alternation groups
- Tuplets

Chord-at-a-time input style
Bar lines

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

Multirests
Lyrics

## Tablature

Tablature notation

## Shaped notes

Shaped notes

## Text Strings

Mup text strings

## Tempo, dynamic marks, ornaments, etc.

General Information
Text
Guitar grids
Music symbols
Phrase marks
Crescendo and decrescendo marks
Octave marks
Piano pedal marks
Rolls

## Tags, printing text, lines and curves

Location tags
Printing text
Lines and curves

## Miscellaneous Mup features

Newscore and newpage
Page headers and footers
Macros
Generalized if clauses
Include files
Exit
User defined symbols
Installing other fonts

## Custom Accidentals and Alternate Tunings

Custom Accidentals and Alternate Tunings

## Mup Parameters

Mup parameters

## Hints

Debugging
Adjusting output
Special uses of invisible bars
Chant
Forcing shared note heads
Manually placed tuplet numbers
Manual placement of notes
Trill with accidental
Accidental on tied-to note
Bracketing notes across staffs
Cross-bar beaming
Printing relative to lyric syllables
Printing slanted text
Mixed time signatures
Defining a macro inside another macro
Marking complicated tempo changes
Placing several songs on one page
Cadenzas
Transposition
Placing verses below the scores
Automatic piano reduction
Deriving cue notes from another staff
Diagonal slash marks
Breath marks
Breaks
Organ pedal heel and toe marks
Generating blank staff paper
Passing multiple coordinates to PostScript
Converting Mup files to other formats

## MIDI output

Basic Information
Gradual MIDI Changes

Index

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