Automatic formatting of music sheets

Music formatting is one of the most relevant problems of program for music notation editing. Several written and non-written rules are typically applied by music engravers and composers. In this paper, an innovative approach for formalizing formatting rules is presented. The approach is based on insertion, position and priority rules and associated conditions for their activation. Conditions and rules formalized in the proposed approach are automatically executed by a formatting engine called MELLA (Music Intelligence Formatting Language). The approach is proposed by using several examples.