I am now using Django on behalf of Matthew Wadsworth (see below). I type the tablature in Django and Matthew transfers those files into brail (Mathew is blind) via a programme of his own devising. Three cheers to Alain for developing Django and allowing Matthew to develop it into an area ignored by all other music typesetting developers!
Rob MacKillop -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 February 2005 10:59 To: dongl Cc: alain.veylit; lute Subject: Re: horizontal spacing in tablature And in fact, Matthew Wadsworth, in the booklet of his "Away Delights", AVIE AV2053, wrote "...My thanks to Django's developer, Alain Veylit, for his many hours of hard work..." Not so bad for an amateurish developer! Best wishes Paolo Declich > Alain said: > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:30 PM > Subject: Re: horizontal spacing in tablature > > > > > This is where it seems to me, in the past couple of years, a tendency > > has grown to consider that small software developers like me, who do it > > on the side of their real job, cannot possibly offer the same level of > > quality as the big companies like Finale or Sibelius can, with their > > full-time large teams of bright ivy-league graduate programmers. > > As a result of that trend, I think, people have been investing sometimes > > hundreds of dollars into those software simply because it seems to them > > that if it costs 800$ it is bound to suit their all needs, when in fact > > a much cheaper, amateurish piece of software could have done the job > > better. > > Well, I don't think of Finale as a user friendly program, and in my opinion > it has a great lack of flexibility, which results in taking three times as > much to write a bar. I think a music program should help to spare time ( > which Django actually does do), so that no one would feel in need to think: > "I write it by hand, if I need it, because it's faster, the program is just > to publish properly". And I would not call "amateurish" a program written by > a programmer who can also play the lute and knows the needs of musicians > much better than teams of "bright ivy-league graduate" programmers. > > Thank you Alain! > > Donatella > > > http://web.tiscali.it/awebd > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > ____________________________________________________________ 6X velocizzare la tua navigazione a 56k? 6X Web Accelerator di Libero! Scaricalo su INTERNET GRATIS 6X http://www.libero.it
