>| Anyway, I'm sure the world needs plenty more tunebooks, so why don't you >| give it ago? The need for a "Complete Scott Skinner" has already been >| mentioned, so how about it - I don't think anyone will be chasing you re >| copyright. > How about a "Complete Scott Skinner" ABC project, to put > all his tunes online? When we finish it, we could do a > quick conversion to PDF and publish it ...
No can do. Skinner's books use a lot of fiddle-specific notation that ABC can't represent. And for this music, it matters. There is no point in doing a project on this scale in such a way that it needs to be done all over again in a few years. And no it would NOT do to simply code up some quick abcm2ps-style hacks to reproduce Skinner's notational graphics. That would simply create hostages to fortune as there is no telling what people or their programs would interpret them as in future. The right way to do it is for a human editor to figure out what they mean, and for ABC to evolve so as to represent that meaning unambiguously in an agreed way. Meanwhile, it's not the right tool. Simply putting raw scans on-line would be better. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ food intolerance data & recipes, freeware Mac logic fonts, and Scottish music Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
