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In answering many dozen of enquiries I have received in these days,
I am posting the attached information about BACH.

I hope this clarifies the matter.

Yo

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Re: Musicological font (updated - 10 July 1996)

      Font name: Bach (shareware), version 3.0
    Environment: Windows 3.1 and above
                 Apple Macintosh OS 7.0c and above
    Font Family: Combined: Symbols (music fonts) + Roman
      Font Type: TrueType
         Extras: Input tools for Wingz, Ami Pro and Microsoft Word

          Price: GBP 10.00 / US$ 15.00 / JPY 1600


NEW FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE
============================
* Fonts definition improved with hinting
* 32 New symbols added
* Macintosh Version is fully developed


ABOUT THE FONT
==============
BACH consists of font plus associated input utilities for 
professional quality display and printout under Windows/Mac's 
graphical environment. 

BACH contains both a comprehensive set of musical symbols AND 
usual numbers or alphabetical characters in a single font. 
This enables anyone who wish to write musicological sentences.

BACH is originally designed to be used in Spreadsheet or Database 
where we can select a single font only to type data of musicological 
nature.

Unlike Adobe's postscript font for music "SONATA", or Coda's 
"PETRUCCI" BACH is fully compatible with normal applications, 
such as wordprocessor, spreadsheet and database.

Endless variety of notational patterns (up to hemidemisemiquavers) 
and ornaments (e.g.,  doppelt cadence und mordant) can be created 
by combination of characters in the font.

For more details, please refer to:

  "Bach, The Font: Inline Musical Graphics for Databases and
     Spreadsheets" in: Computing in Musicology IX (1993-4) 61-64

  "The Spreadsheets in Musicology" in: Musicus III (1993) 31-37


CONCEPT OF THE FONT
===================
To carry out my research work in musicology, I used database 
in Windows, which allowed me to use graphic symbols. 
But I needed to develop a font which had both music symbols 
and ordinary alphabetical characters in a single font in order 
to compile my database. 

Bach preserves the characters in normal ROMAN family typeface 
in the range "0-9, A-Z, a-z, "'`()+;:?[]/{}|". Music symbols 
occupy the rest of the keys on the keyboard "｣$%^&*-=#~@<>"  
as well as the extended ASCII range accessible by Windows' 
applications. 

Upon registration, you will receive a certificate of registration,
printed manual, and a free upgrade to the next major revision
or release.


HOW TO OBTAIN BACH
==================
There are several versions of Bach 3.0 in downloadable form and
disk distribution form.

(1) Downloading from WINSITE and its mirror sites
 
    Go to subdirectory of "win3/fonts" and two variations:

    Files: PC only    - bach30pc.zip
           PC and Mac - bach30.zip

(2) Downloading (anonymous FTP) from my machine directly

    Machine name: yo.music.qub.ac.uk (143.117.3.26)
    Directory: pub/music/fonts/

    Files (as above) plus a few others:
           Mac only   - bach30mc.zip
           Japanese doc. for DOS/V - bach30j.zip
           Japanese doc. for Mac   - bach30jm.zip

(3) If you want to receive a disk, please specify the format
    (PC / Mac) and send me shipping cost (GBP2 / US$3 / JPY400).


If you downloaded the file, please UNZIP it appropriate unzipping
software, such as PKUNZIP.EXE or WINZIP.EXE. If you use Macintosh,
use ZipIt. 

There is a file called "bach30.hlp" for Windows version. There are 
also other files called "bach30.*" which are word-processor files.
This is Bach User Guide, and further information as to how you may 
want to install Bach will be explained in detail.

Any enquiries or comments to the author:

         Dr. Yo Tomita
         School of Music 
         Queen's University of Belfast
         Belfast BT7 1NN
         Northern Ireland

or email me on internet address: y.tomita@qub.ac.uk