John, For music typesetting, try Finale with wine. It's not as smooth as under MSW ( I use W2000) but for not too complex arrangements it works reasonably well. (I have a Windows system I use only for Finale,I must confess but I tried wine and it works). Joep
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:51 -0400, John W. Kennedy wrote: > James White wrote: > > Michael, I gotta ask a personal question: Why on EARTH are you using > > Windows > > if you are already an expert in UNIX? > > I'm not Michael, but I'm still on Windows because I need a decent > WYSIWYG music typesetter (I use Sibelius), Palm Desktop, and a GPS/road > atlas program (I use DeLorme Street Atlas USA). The first two I could > get with MacOS, but for the third I know of no alternative to Windows at > all. > > (For what it's worth, since the revelation that Microsoft is supporting > a creationist think-tank to the tune of $1,000,000 a year, I've sworn > that I will never buy another Windows system, no matter what I have to > sacrifice. But, if things remain as they are, it /will/ cripple me > considerably.) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
