Hi Dana! Welcome back!
Garry > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 4:45 PM > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: hi, re-introducing myself > > Some of you should remember me, I went inactive a couple years ago. > > Dana Emery, I live on the east end of long island. Amateur builder of winds, > amateur player of ren music of all kinds, including lute. > > I was (well sorta still am) working on a macintosh program to do tablature > typesetting; that project is on hold for the nonce, ill health and other real- > life > distractions are distracting me from it. I last had the thing limping along > with > pretty good functionality, supporting all kinds of tablature > (french/italian/german), with translation from one-to-another; duets, trios, > even > more parallel staves were supported, each stave with its own styling (yes, one > could be french, other german if you wanted that). Playback of the 'beep' > variety > was working; and one could specify arbitrary encoding of symbols from third- > party > fonts. I have several facsimile fonts ready for use with it. > > But, I was using a binary file format, and maintenance of it was getting > nasty. I > was also supporting named styles, necessary, but difficult to resolve when the > file gets transported to some other machine. I came to the conclusino that a > save- > file format using ascii is desirable, and kinda lost heart. well, times up, > so > more anon > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
