> I exchanged a bit of email with Michael a couple of years ago, in > which he explained that he was finding himself too busy to continue > working much on abc2ps, and that this was one of the things that the > GPL is good for. I don't think he's surprised or bothered that others > have taken his program and continued development. As long as you keep > his name in the source code.
good... > | Command line switches would only be necessary to pick up tunes from a > | songbook, say, number 3, number 9 and the "Blackbird" song - and some > | other minor things which can be placed on the GUI. > > Of course, as a long-time unix user, I tend to do those with separate > small programs. It's easy enough to use a lot of the standard unix > tools, plus maybe a perl script or two, to do all sorts of useful > extractions from files full of abc tunes. And, of course, there's the > approach of putting each tune in a separate file (with the title as > the file name). Then you can use all the directory tools to do most > of the work. That plus a few Makefile entries and you don't have very > much work left to do. This gives you lots of time to type up the > tunes and put them in your web site. One thing I will certainly agree about is - there is an impressive number of ways of doing things... I hope to become a long time Linux user when I get older... :-) Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
