Automatic formatting of music sheets

Abstract

Music formatting is one of the most relevant problems of music notation editing programs. Several written and non-written rules are typically applied by music engravers and composers. An innovative approach for formalizing formatting rules is presented. The approach is based on insertion, position and priority rules and associated conditions for their activation. Conditions and rules formalized in the proposed approach are automatically executed by a formatting engine called MILLA (Music Intelligence Formatting Language). The approach is proposed by using several examples.