Dear Jurek, as I have written that to Alain before, I dare to say it on the lute list as well.
In my opinion django (I only use that program beside abctab2ps - so I can't say very much on fronimo) is a very good program to input tablature with a good possibility to check it by ear. The output is quite good (and getting better nearly every day), but still lacks some important things as automatic proportional spacing and overall scaling. As far as I have seen in the fronimo demo it has to some respect proportional spacing, but not as good as f.i. abctab2ps or special notation programs as mup, lilypond - to tell some portable notation programs - or other professional programs like sibelius, finale etc. Fortunately Alain will add proportional spacing to django in the hopefully near future. Another important thing he has added is the support of music xml, that gives the possibility to import django tablatures/notation to other notation programs. Unfortunately most of the professional programs don't support too good. If there is one measure hanging on an extra page that is really the users fault, cause it is, as Roman told you before, possible to shift one measure to the last or next line. I can only say that it is important to tell the developers what you miss at the moment in their programs, so they will try to do their best to improve them. And I want to add one more thing to do the developers more justice: Most of these programs had been developed to input tablature and were enlargened later to do more and more professional notation output. Best Markus On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 02:16:52 +0100, Jerzy ZAK wrote: JZ> Dear Alain, JZ> JZ> I appreciate you work much, but I would do much more... if you had a JZ> mac version some time, too ;-) JZ> JZ> After having a look at your PDF with Siena_155, let me ask you one JZ> thing. Having a piece of 51 bars isn't it possible in Django to fit it JZ> on three pages, and not on three plus one system? That's something I JZ> see on most of the pages set in tablature processing programs nowadays, JZ> sometimes it's even one bar hanging on an extra page (and an empty rest JZ> of the staff)... Or is it unimportant to most users? JZ> JZ> I'm sorry if the answer is obvious to experienced windowsers, but I'm JZ> behaved to a different music software and different page layout JZ> philosophy. It may be, however, that you convince me somehow and I may JZ> consider buying a PC, who knows... JZ> JZ> Jurek JZ> ---------------------- JZ> JZ> JZ> On Sunday, Jan 11, 2004, at 19:42 Europe/Warsaw, Alain Veylit wrote: JZ> JZ> > Dear lutenists, JZ> > I am very happy to announce the release of version 7.37 of the Django JZ> > software. That version includes many improvements at the graphical and JZ> > notation levels, as well as a new function to export the data to the JZ> > MusicXML format, to increase the chances that the intabulations made JZ> > with JZ> > the software will endure for some time to come. XML also allows for a JZ> > better "inter-operability" with other music softwares like Finale, JZ> > Lime, JZ> > Sibelius, etc. A complete demo version set-up file can be found at JZ> > http://webpages.charter.net/django/ and a PDF format file showing some JZ> > of JZ> > the new capabilities of the software is available at JZ> > http://webpages.charter.net/django/Siena_155.pdf . The demo file in the JZ> > demo version includes the weird setting of Lachrimae by Besard, an ayr JZ> > by JZ> > John Adson, a baroque piece from the Robarts L.B. and the setting of JZ> > Robin JZ> > from the Folger MS. JZ> > I have not had time yet to fully update the help files - apparently my JZ> > Christmas vacation time was not long enough... - but I will try to do JZ> > so JZ> > in the near future. JZ> > The price of the registration of the software will go from 80 US JZ> > dollars to JZ> > 100 at the end of January. I am currently in contact with the French JZ> > lute JZ> > society to offer their members a $25 discount and will be happy to JZ> > offer JZ> > the same to other lute societies that contact me for that purpose. JZ> > As one of the people who spent quite a few hours programming lute music JZ> > software, I am very grateful to Goran Crona and the American LSA for JZ> > their JZ> > new Fronimo dialogo project which I think points to new exciting ways JZ> > of JZ> > making our music more available. JZ> > Happy playing all, JZ> > Alain JZ> > JZ> > JZ> > JZ> > JZ> > JZ> JZ> JZ>
