> by the way, i noticed on the [ex-]developers
website that he mentions
> linux distributions ignoring noteedit as one of many reasons for
> giving up, so i thought i would mention that Gentoo Linux has included
> it in their portage tree for some time now 
  And...
 ~# apt-cache search noteedit
 lilypond - A program for typesetting sheet music
 noteedit - KDE Music Editor
 noteedit-data - KDE Music Editor (data files)
 ...so Debian too. 
I just looked in my SuSE distro and there it is. I'm running SuSE 9.0
and I know it's at least two versions behind what is now out. But
noteedit is included in this version of SuSE.
Rocco