Notation Viewer History

1997	In order to help my wife Stefanie Stadler Elmer to get nice diagrams of her musical micro analysis studies I wrote a small C program which creates diagrams in Postscript. For this purpose I developed the MDT and DAT file formats.
December 2005	The problem with this little C program is that Postscript support can not be expected in standard personal computer environments. Most users do not have Postscript printers. Installing Ghostview and Ghostscript is (as I remember) a bit tricky. It is also difficult to import Postscript into office applications. Therefore, I wrote the Notation Viewer in Java with EMF and PNG export.