Jonathan Finn
ManuScript is a simple, music-based programming language developed to write plug-ins for the Sibelius music processor.
It is based on Simkin, an embedded scripting language developed by Simon Whiteside (www.larts.co.uk/simkin.html), and has been extended by him and Graham Westlake. (Simkin is a spooky pet name for Simon sometimes found in Victorian novels.)
Rationale
In adding a plug-in language to Sibelius we were trying to address several different issues:
Music notation is complex and infinitely extensible, so some users will sometimes want to add to a music notation program to make it cope with these new extensions.
It is useful to allow frequently repeated operations (e.g. opening a MIDI file and saving it as a score) to be automated, using a system of scripts or macros.
Certain more complex techniques used in composing or arranging music can be partly automated, but there are too many to include as standard features in Sibelius.
There were several......
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