Luddites were machine-wreckers who sought to halt the industrial revolution in knitting-machines - right here in Loughborough UK.
Well before my time, I might add! Modern knitting machines are operated by computers, which can't be too far from tablature. Any ideas which piece would knit up into a nice garment?!! Let's start with Welt (The 'thick' part of a stocking) I'm trying to keep it on-topic here, - or Arto will be after me... Best Wishes Ron (UK) -----Original Message----- From: Roman Turovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:21 PM To: Spring, aus dem, Rainer; alexander Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: lilypond for tab using mac, any experienced users? Sasha, the world has graduated to WYSIWYG software, but Lilypond remains the domain of masochistic luddite linuxoid programmers. ^That was the gist of Rainer's comment. RT ----- Original Message ----- From: "alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Spring, aus dem, Rainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:09 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: lilypond for tab using mac, any experienced users? >I mean, if you understand the general concept of how Lilypond works and >what exactly it does, you can use it or not, depending on if it does enough >for you. If you need a simple guitar Tab, you will have to create a text >file with parameters shown on the "kainhofer" website, and enter the >pitches. Lilypond will place these pitches to corresponding strings, with >limitations mentioned by W. Brohinsky. In reality almost everything in >Lilypond can be tweeked, and with a lot of time investment practically any >result can be achieved. However, as often mentioned, a money can be paid to >the people who have done such a work already and created other programs. If >you are looking for some hands-on help, you are welcome to send me a .pdf >or anything of a piece you want to set in Lilypond, and i can create the >Tab file for you, so you can have a template to work from. > > Alexander > > > "Spring, aus dem, Rainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "quite self-evident then" >> >> ??????? >> >> What do you mean? >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Rainer aus dem Spring >> > > Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: lilypond for tab using mac, any experienced users? >> >> Oh, well, this page quite self-evident then: >> http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/user/lilypond-big-page.html#Fre tted-string-instruments >> . >> >> >> "Spring, aus dem, Rainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Forget it - very basic guitar tablature. >> > >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > >> > Rainer aus dem Spring >> > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
