From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14277 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Typesetting music in ConTeXt Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:57:52 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20031212005223.0205a070@server-1> References: <3FD76C04.7080403@boede.nl> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071216455 31516 80.91.224.253 (12 Dec 2003 08:07:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Fri Dec 12 09:07:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AUiKi-0000ao-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:07:32 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D2510B13; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:07:28 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8161510ACC for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:58:45 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hBC7wh629832 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:58:43 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 4B90223364; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:58:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CB323364 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 07:58:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: Original-References: <3FD76C04.7080403@boede.nl> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14277 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14277 At 23:05 10/12/2003, you wrote: >Even if I know that Hans is a capable wizard, I don't think that some >Metapost music typesetting could provide more than some single note lines. >If we talk about music typesetting (or try to port or adapt something for >ConTeXt) we must think in orchestra concert book dimensions; I guess >musical typography more difficult than "usual". one reason to consider metapost is that it is better suited for calculations besides being fun; the main problem is in the input language since all examples i've seen so far are kind of awful; but don't worry .. i currently don't have time for it -) Are there gui based apps that generate musicxml, whatever that is (maybe just another dtd being application data turned into <>'s)? Hans