STY files: what are they and how do I open them?
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.sty file type #1: Micrografx Picture Publisher print style
Some types of files with sty extension contain print style settings for the old Micrografx Picture Publisher.
Further details:
File extension sty was used by Micrografx Picture Publisher.
The company was later acquired by Corel and the product line was discontinued some time after.
A .sty file contains styles used for printing.
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Micrografx Picture Publisher
An older painting application for Windows
.sty file type #2: Band-in-a-Box backing style
Files with sty file extension can also be found as backing styles for Band-in-a-Box music editing software.
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The sty file extension is associated with the Band-in-a-Box, a music composing software for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X (macOS) operating systems.
The sty file stores backing style data.
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Band-in-a-Box
A music composition tool and audio editor
.sty file type #3: DirectMusic style data
An sty file extension is related to the Microsoft DirectMusic API.
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The sty file extension is associated with the Microsoft DirectMusic, a component of DirectX API that allows music and sound effects to be composed and played and provides flexible interactive control over the way they are played.
Architecturally, DirectMusic is a high-level set of objects, built on top of DirectSound, that allow you to play sound and music without needing to get quite as low-level as DirectSound. DirectSound allows for the capture and playback of digital sound samples, whereas DirectMusic works with message-based musical data. Music can be synthesized either in hardware, in the Microsoft Software Synthesizer, or in a custom synthesizer.
The sty file stores style for DirectMusic API.
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DirectX
API from Microsoft
.sty file type #4: LaTeX style
An sty file extension is related to the LaTeX, a document preparation system.
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The sty file extension is associated with the LaTeX, a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
The sty file stores style settings.
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LaTeX
A document preparation system for high-quality typesetting
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.sty file type #5: Microsoft Word for DOS style sheet
An sty file extension is related to the Microsoft Word for MS-DOS word processing program. An sty file stores style sheet.
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The sty file extension was also used in Microsoft Word for DOS.
The modern Word is, a powerful authoring program that gives you the ability to create and share documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the easy-to-use Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, which is part of Microsoft Office.
The sty files were used in the DOS version of Microsoft Word for style sheet files.
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Microsoft Word
One of the most popular word processor program from Microsoft Office suite
.sty file type #6: Ventura Publisher style sheet
An sty file extension is related to the Corel Ventura Publisher. An sty file stores style sheet.
Further details:
The sty file extension is associated with the Ventura Publisher, a Microsoft Windows application that allows users to transform documents to the visually rich publications.
The sty file contains style sheet.
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Ventura Publisher
A desktop publishing software very popular on DOS/GEM operating systems
.sty file type #7: Yamaha general style data
An sty file extension is related to Yamaha general style files.
Further details:
The sty file extension is associated with the for style files for Yamaha Tyros2 keyboards.
Tyros and Tyros2 were released in 2005 and now are discontinued and replaced by the Tyros3 family of arranger workstations.
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WAVE Xtractor
Audio extraction tool