page_title: SCORE (software)
section_title: Commercial development
hierarchical_section_title: SCORE (software) / Program development / Commercial development
caption_attribution_description: English: Install 3.5" floppy disc for SCORE Version 4
context_page_description: SCORE is a scorewriter program, written in FORTRAN for MS-DOS by Stanford University Professor Leland Smith with a reputation for producing very high-quality results. It was widely used in engraving during the 1980s and 1990s and continues to have a small, dedicated following of engravers, many of whom regard it as the world's best music-engraving program due to its ability to precisely position symbols on the page. Several publications set using SCORE have earned Paul Revere and German Musikpresse engraving awards.
context_section_description: Between 1985 and 1986 MS was ported to the Tandy 2000 running MS-DOS under the new name of SCORE.  This was released in 1987 as Version 1 by Passport Designs; and updated to version 2 in August 1988. Passport Designs brought Perry Devine in to help make the program more user-friendly and William Holab to rewrite the manuals, which resulted in version 3.0 in 1990 (whereafter Smith's company, San Andreas Press, took over distribution), and 3.11 in 1994 (the last iteration of version 3, which is considered the most mature and still used commercially today).  Version 4.0 (known as SCOR4) was released in 1999.  The last minor update to SCOR4, numbered 4.01, was made on October 16, 2001. 
  The German music publisher Schott Music began using SCORE in 1988 and their in-house engraving typefaces became the basis for SCORE's symbol library.
  The SCORE music publishing system is made up of the main program, SCORE, and several associated utilities.  These are:
  SCORLAS, which sends typeset pages to PostScript printers or creates an EPS file
  PAGE, which handles page layout for multiple pages of music simultaneously, and part extraction
  DRAW, which draws symbols for inclusion in CODE 9 or CODE 11 libraries
  JUST, which aligns and justifies large scores with more than 32 staves per system
  Version 3.0 included the SPRINT program which was the forerunner of SCORLAS, and Version 3.10 also had SCORDOT which sent output to dot matrix printers.  ESCORT and SCOREINPUT were sold separately and allowed MIDI input from MIDI file and MIDI keyboard, respectively.
  Version 4 included automatic lute and guitar tablature systems, MIDI playback, allowed the editing of groups of items simultaneously by drawing boxes with the mouse, a conditional editor, and various user interface improvements relating to file access and use of a mouse.
  WinScore, the Microsoft Windows version, was released to beta in 2008 as version 5.00.  Improvements included increasing the possible number of staves on pages, removing the limits on items and vectors per page, a WYSIWYG interface, use of colour, native MIDI input and playback, extending the number of parameters per item to 36, and integrating all previous SCORE utilities (PAGE, JUST, DRAW, SCORLAS) into the main program.  WinScore suffered from memory leaks and other bugs which prevented its adoption by many users, and despite officially being released on December 8, 2012, it was still effectively in beta development at the time of its last update to 5.01 on November 1, 2013, six weeks before Smith's death.
  The basis of SCORE was written in FORTRAN with all the mouse and graphics routines written in Intel assembly language.  WinScore was created using a combination of Visual C++ and 32-bit DEC FORTRAN.
caption: SCORE version 4 was installed from a single 3.5" floppy disk, earlier versions shipped on up to four discs
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