Yes, I remember you, Dana. Welcome back!! ed
At 09:45 PM 2/6/2005 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Some of you should remember me, I went inactive a couple years ago. > >Dana Emery, I live on the east end of long island. Amateur builder of winds, >amateur player of ren music of all kinds, including lute. > >I was (well sorta still am) working on a macintosh program to do tablature >typesetting; that project is on hold for the nonce, ill health and other >real-life >distractions are distracting me from it. I last had the thing limping >along with >pretty good functionality, supporting all kinds of tablature >(french/italian/german), with translation from one-to-another; duets, >trios, even >more parallel staves were supported, each stave with its own styling (yes, >one >could be french, other german if you wanted that). Playback of the 'beep' >variety >was working; and one could specify arbitrary encoding of symbols from >third-party >fonts. I have several facsimile fonts ready for use with it. > >But, I was using a binary file format, and maintenance of it was getting >nasty. I >was also supporting named styles, necessary, but difficult to resolve when >the >file gets transported to some other machine. I came to the conclusino >that a save- >file format using ascii is desirable, and kinda lost heart. well, times >up, so >more anon > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
