I'm not convinced. Could you give us some examples? Regards,
Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Campin > Sent: 11 October 2002 00:12 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [scots-l] Re: Music source books > > > >| Anyway, I'm sure the world needs plenty more tunebooks, so why > don't you > >| give it ago? The need for a "Complete Scott Skinner" has already been > >| mentioned, so how about it - I don't think anyone will be > chasing you re > >| copyright. > > How about a "Complete Scott Skinner" ABC project, to put > > all his tunes online? When we finish it, we could do a > > quick conversion to PDF and publish it ... > > No can do. Skinner's books use a lot of fiddle-specific notation that > ABC can't represent. And for this music, it matters. There is no point > in doing a project on this scale in such a way that it needs to be done > all over again in a few years. > > And no it would NOT do to simply code up some quick abcm2ps-style hacks > to reproduce Skinner's notational graphics. That would simply create > hostages to fortune as there is no telling what people or their programs > would interpret them as in future. The right way to do it is for a > human editor to figure out what they mean, and for ABC to evolve so as > to represent that meaning unambiguously in an agreed way. Meanwhile, > it's not the right tool. Simply putting raw scans on-line would be > better. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----------- > Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 > 4PU, Scotland > tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * > http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ > food intolerance data & recipes, freeware Mac logic fonts, and > Scottish music > > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List > - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
