>> by the way, i noticed on the [ex-]developers website that he mentions >> linux distributions ignoring noteedit as one of many reasons for >> giving up, so i thought i would mention that Gentoo Linux has included >> it in their portage tree for some time now > And... > ~# apt-cache search noteedit > lilypond - A program for typesetting sheet music > noteedit - KDE Music Editor > noteedit-data - KDE Music Editor (data files) > > ...so Debian too. I just looked in my SuSE distro and there it is. I'm running SuSE 9.0 and I know it's at least two versions behind what is now out. But noteedit is included in this version of SuSE. Rocco