There is an old roff language for programming music notes. This is a troff preprocessor that translates into pic. The author is Eric Foxley at university of Nottingham, UK.
Homepage: www.chezfred.org.uk/freds/music User Manual: http://www.chezfred.org.uk/University/music/doc/music.doc.html http://www.chezfred.org.uk/freds/music/music.doc.pdf In 1987 there was a book Music: A Troff Preprocessor for printing music scores Eric Foxley that isn't available anymore. But at Google books there is an ABSTRACT at AUUGN for Aug. 1987, vol. 8 number 3-4, page 112-128. You find it at Google by searching `troff music eric foxley AUUGN'. I do not understand why this preprocessor was not integrated. Foxley has created a database of 1200 folk tunes and more, but I did not find anything about the preprocessor source. Maybe someone should contact him. I think best would be someone from a British university. Bernd Warken
