Welcome back Dana. We missed you! A Mac program is certainly needed. I've noticed a high proportion of Mac users among lute professionals and amateurs. Do you think it would be possible to work with Alain Veylit or Francesco Tribioli and port some of the hard work they've already done for PC to the Mac? I know nothing about programming so maybe it's a stupid question.
As I recall, Miles Demster has written a tab program with beautiful output for the Mac but chooses not to release it to the general public, due to all the hassles involved with that, but he does contract work. cheers, >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 -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ --
