Recordare
has releasded version 1.1 of MusicXML, an XML application
for common
Western music notation used in printed sheet music.
"The big change is the addition of many new features for music formatting. Files saved in the MusicXML 1.1 format can now include full information about how notes, symbols, measures, staves, systems, credits, and pages appear in a printed score." New elements include
defaults,
credit,
scaling, page-layout, system-layout, staff-layout, measure-layout,
barre,
harp-pedals,
scordatura,
tremolo,
pluck,
and staff-size.
YesLogic has posted the first beta of Prince 5.0, a $295 payware batch formatter for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X that produces PDF and PostScript from XML documents with CSS stylesheets. New features in 5.0 include Unicode, PDF links, bookmarks and security, footnotes, cross-references and CSS positioning.