Rob, I think you're probably better off using Finale if you can get the kinks worked out, but in case you can't here's one more to look at: http://www.salieri.org/GUIDO I've never used this one, but it looks pretty interesting... Good luck, Mark On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 04:49, robcanning wrote: > thanks for the links, > > i had another look but still can't see anything up to scratch - i need a > gui interface where i can to create large orchestral scores to > publication standard, output and transpose instrumental parts, design > and import non standard notational symbols etc. etc. > > besides this i have dozens of scores already in Finale that need to be > accessible to me > > Finale is working pretty well under Wine but i would just like to iron > out the few glitches that are there > > thanks again, > > rob > > the link to mscore seems to be broken, or the page is down...