G'day,
I think Joe's advice re ABCMUS and Noteworthy Composer is pretty good. I've played with ABCMUS and found it to be well worth $10. There's enough software support for ABC to make it worth while. My own commitment is to MIDI and I've gritted my teeth and paid the money for hardware and software that will allow me to do anything - print high quality scores, play MIDI files at gigs (rarely), you name it.

As Joe said MIDItext is an attempt to allow Mudcatters to post tunes to this forum and provides some support for both MIDI and ABC. I think if we concentrate where possible on one of these two formats we might see more tunes posted.

I suspect if you want to print scores the easiest way is to use one of the programs mentioned above to convert from MIDI.

For another example of a posted song with tune look at the "Christmas Greetings from Down Under" thread.

Cheers,
Alan