15 Dec
2011
15 Dec
'11
1:26 a.m.
On 14/12/11 5:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 14 Dec 2011 at 14:16, Charlie Carothers wrote:
Being an accomplished organist, he probably has a bundle of opinions,
but would need another lifetime to tackle musical setting the way he
pioneered digital typesetting. :)
--Toby
I guess we're straying pretty far OT here,
but I just couldn't resist
responding since music is one of the other loves of my life. Though I
read music rather slowly and poorly, I was able to detect the
monotonic spacing in the first examples before I scrolled down and
read the rest.
Not so far, IMOHO. The subject of TeX was broached somewhere in this
thread, IIRC, which brought up the comparison of composition problems
in both music notation and text. Text is easy when compared to music
and it's such that handwritten music scores still abound even in new
compositions. It's also the case that writing a score by hand
ttends to take less time than punching it into a computer,
particularly if it's a complex one.
I don't think that Knuth ever brought up the subject of musical
notation, however. If he has, it would make interesting reading.
Cheers,
Chuck