joel hunsberger wrote movingly of the shock he experienced, reading
the sad news. i too went through a whole day bursting to talk to
someone about it ... and couldn't until i got home.
cycling home, through the cambridge woods, he was filling my thoughts.
i finally did manage to talk about him, to my partner: she's a music
teacher (sibelius user), and was able to understand.
what no-one seems to have mentioned is that werner was part of the
very inception of musixtex. as i understand it, andreas egler had
support from both werner and daniel taupin in developing the original
version; unfortunately, andreas later fell out with both of them, but
we're all using developments of that original work.
> For those who have never 'seen' Werner Icking, at one time I discovered two
> pictures that he provided of himself on the Web...
>
> Then and more recent: http://wsv.gmd.de/persons/icking/
he kept his beard tidier than i do mine, too...
robin
