Hi all, Personally, I have never been totally happy with the Windows environment, but I feel stuck with it because of 10 years of development... For one thing the data files are not exportable to any other platforms. So the hard work of transcribing music may be easily lost, and the number one rule of computing is: Never do it twice. I do most of my real work on a UNIX platform, and I develop Django on Windows because I still don't think that the graphical environment in UNIX/LINUX is sufficiently developed. The best solution in my opinion would be to develop an XML language for tablature that can be interpreted in Java with an Internet browser as the interface to the user. This would ensure the persistence of files and provide an O.S. independent interface. This is however a huge project which I don't think a single person can undertake with any chance of success (that's a personal opinion). I think there is a Windows emulator for LINUX - equivalent to the Mac's Windows emulator, that allows people to run Windows programs - how advanced is this? Alain
Taco Walstra wrote: >On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:46, you wrote: > > >>>Han-wen nienhuys did a marvelous job as programmer (at university utrecht >>> >>> >>here >> >> >> >>>in the netherlands). Lilypond is very unix/linux oriented >>> >>> >>And that is quite a problem, because linux people seem to think that the >>rest of us love programming. >> >> >In the same spirit: windows people love computerviruses. >As herbert said, linux is surely not only for programmers; 10 years ago >perhaps, today not anymore. > > >>but can be run from >>Considering the great variety of styles that we have to deal with: NO ONE >>would want to deal with a program without the graphical frontend. >>RT >> >> >Wrong: I do. I hate all these clicking programs because it's inefficient. I'm >often preparing 5 pages of music in about 10 minutes with abctab when I need >some orchestra score with continuo. I know Alain and Francesco have done a >wonderful job but it's only for windoze and unfortunately there is still a >nice graphical program missing in the open source world for lute tablature. >For commandline stuff there is enough: still the very nice 'tab' program by >Wayne (open source) and abctab2ps (christoph dalitz) >Point is that most of the graphical output work is already available in >lilypond also for every kind of lute tablature, and a graphical frontend is >within reach with noteedit written in Qt which is portable to mac, windows >and linux. I'm thinking of joining the noteedit developersgroup but I need to >have enough time for this, so don't know yet (I'm also playing lute, you >know). >Taco > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
