Any interest in having Skink as a 'front end' for a command-line tool? in other
words, use Skink to enter, proof read and proof-listen, and then invoke abcxxps
for final output?

wil

Atte Andre Jensen wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Wil Macaulay wrote:
>
> > Thanks Atte.  Just out of interest, what platform are you running it on?
>
> Linux Mandrake 8.0. It worked perfectly right out of the box, although it
> took me some time to figure out how to install Java...
>
> > As to freeware vs. shareware, I see benefits and drawbacks on both sides. No matter
> > what, there will be a version of Skink that will be free, but there may be 
>versions with
> > 'advanced' features (table of contents? incipits?) that are paid for.
>
> I know I'm not writing any software, but I think it's extremely important
> with free software. IMHO abcm2ps is the superior abc implementation and
> it's open source. And Jean-Francois is even *very* actively developing it.
> I can live with the disabling of 'advanced' features, as long as that
> doesn't include stuff like saving and printing... I would prob not use
> anyway, I'll prob stick with abcm2ps, but some of my unsaved friends would
> be easier to get started it there were a mature, free gui alternative for
> their platform - you guessed it: windows...
>
> I was just curious about what the heck skink was, and I can only say that
> it looked nice, and that I hope you'll continue to develop it.
> --
> love, peace & harmony
> Atte
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