Enigma Transportable Format (ETF)

ETF is written by Phil Ferrand and is the cross platform format of Finale . You can download the official ETF documentation if you have registered at least one product from MakeMusic (Coda) . You can also find the description and a parser in the Thesis of Margaret Cahill (in PDF and Word).

Han-Wen Nienhuys' description of the ETF format is incomplete but a good starting point to understand ETF.

Programs exporting Enigma Transportable Format (ETF) :

Finale music notation program

Windows, Macintosh OS X 10.4 or higher

Programs importing Enigma Transportable Format (ETF) :

Harmony Assistant - music composition and notation editing.	Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X, Windows
Finale music notation program	Windows, Macintosh OS X 10.4 or higher
Sibelius - music notation software	Windows, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X
etf2ly - ETF to Lilypond converter	Linux, Red Hat i386, LinuxPPC, SuSE, Shockware, Mandrake, Debian, Mac OS X, Darwin, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, Windows
Nightingale Desktop Music Publishing software	Mac OS 7 through 9, Mac OS X

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