Hi, New to ther Lute list, and just acquired a Renaissance lute and had a wonderful lesson with Ed Martin last Thursday. I have been typesetting and transcribing music in Finale since 2000. I just acquired and registered Fronimo last night. What I am seeing in this thread are pleas for BOTH standardization AND maleability, and I totally understand the need for both. With many high end graphics and typesetting / notation programs, the developers do their best to keep their file types proprietary. This allows them to earn a living from selling their programs. The down-side is that is limits the ability of the user to share files with colleagues, unless their colleagues have also bought the same expensive program. Add to this that if I haven't "upgraded" (i.e. sent another ton of money to the developer) my Finale program, I won't be able to open files from a colleague who has and sends me their newer version. It's a frustrating racket that thwarts maleability. I would like to see more cooperation amongst developers in this regard. I realize that for somebody writing a notation program in their spare time this could be a time consuming thing (nightmare?), but wouldn't it be nice if one could "import", for example, a Fronimo file into Finale, or vice versa? Or at least be able to change the formatting of a file to suit your taste without having to start entering every character from the beginning? One feature in Finale that I find very useful is you can import a MIDI file and it will notate it automatically (errors, of course, but much quicker than starting from scratch). This is a feature I would like to see built into Fronimo. Finale probably wouldn't even talk to Francesco, but perhaps other Lute Tablature developers could work together on sharing file types? All that said, the best way to share printed music on the web that I have found so far is PDF. PDFs are not alterable, but they sure are handy. Unfortunately, to MAKE PDFs it usually requires that one has bought the full version of Adobe Acrobat (not cheap), which incorporates a "printer" called the "Acrobat Distiller". One must use this feature in order to embed fonts like Fronimo Pavan, that other users may not have in their computers. Otherwise the end user sees gobbletygook. (I actually got Spiders once!) One can make scans into PDFs also (I do this by importing the scanned image into a graphics program like CorelDraw, then printing to the Distiller), but to get good resolution the scan needs to be at least 300 - 400 dpi and the Distiller PDF settings should be 1200 dpi. Otherwise the end user cannot enlarge it for their older eyes without it being blurry. Anyway, I think whatever software develpoers could do to allow their users to share files would be a benefit. Tom Tom Draughon Heartistry Music http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html 714 9th Avenue West Ashland, WI 54806 715-682-9362
On 8 Dec 2008 at 9:50, howard posner wrote: > On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Peter Nightingale wrote: > > > > > See Feynman: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZcpTTjjXY > > > > Fascinating, captain. A prominent scientist offering two minutes of > meaningless generalities without a single fact. Completely illogical. > > Yours truly. > > Mr. Spock > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.13/1826 - Release Date: 12/3/2008 > 9:34 AM > Tom Draughon Heartistry Music http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html 714 9th Avenue West Ashland, WI 54806 715-682-9362
