And therein lies the problem. I have a copy of Rainer's Holborne edition (which is an impressive and valuable piece of scholarship). I'd love to have it in digital form so I could tinker with format and what have you, but I fully understand Rainer's reluctance to release his sources, which is why I've never even asked.
Open Source is an interesting and sometimes useful approach to things, but it has its limits. Guy -----Original Message----- From: adS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 2:20 PM To: Lute Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: tablature notation guidelines, impossible! Dana, as you know I am one of the people on the lute net who created a scholarly edition of lute music. I totally disagree. If you provide tablature in electronic format you completely loose control. The files will be distributed, modified, distributed again, appear with a different copyright notice, ... To create and distribute tablature in electronic format is fine. However, this will never replace printed editions. The only thing one could consider is pdf. pdf or ps is used by some (at least mathematical) on-line journals. For a scholarly edition you must produce a "frozen" version. However, I must say that I would never publish anything as a pdf file that took more than a few days. Rainer adS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I come late to this discussion, and can barely take the time today to pen > this, but will try. > > Modern engraved music has evolved in several major publishing houses > taking lifetimes of numerous senior editors who have interacted with the > representatives of major orchestras thruout the world to settle issues > such sa the ones I see up for debate. We dont have to make money witht he > resulting decisions as they did, so we arent as likely to have that focus > to keep us from endless debate. > > And, with todays technology, we have a better way to deal with it all. > > If the player has an electronic file specifying the tablature, and > suitable software, she can cause to be displayed or printed whatever > pleases. German tab becomes staff, french, or neapolitan tab as desired. > Big print, small, wide, narrow, whatever. > > Data entry by us as a large committee wouldnt take so long; the resulting > DB could be handled PD online, with minimal download fees supporting the > website and perhaps an administrator (modestly). > > Current print publishers would have to find some hook to keep our interest > in their editions, perhaps we will cease to need them and they can go on > to other business. > > There is no 'everyman' answer to even the first question, which form - > french, italian, german? Yes, most seem to prefer french, but enough > prefer italian that you cant ignore that market. There is then other > issues - what font to use, thru lines or between spaces, how large the > type, seperate sparse flags or totally beamed. Petrucci-style floating > flags or all flags above. If ornaments are to be printed, which set of > signs are to be used? > > Alphabeto lurks in the wings if anyone thinks these issues can find any > resolution. > > No, best way is to defer the decision to the enduser and provide an > enabling technology. Maybe even a choice of technologys. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
