Greetings (from Pondicherry, India)
Age: 59
My first degree was in Mathematics, and then I migrated to Linguistics
(or rather to the History of Linguistics, which I see as part of the
"History of Science").
This is the domain where I did my Ph.D (in the eighties).
I am a researcher (at CNRS) working on the ancient Tamil Shastric (i.e.
"scholarly/scientific/«grammatical»") literature.
I also work on the Tamil devotional corpus, which has been transmitted
for many centuries with Musical Information attached.
There is also some metrical/rythmic information attached to that corpus.
At the time of MS-DOS, in the eighties, I have written a number of small
utilities in Assembly language, and have also some familiarity with a
number of programming languages (although I tend to view them with the
point of view of the "historian of science" and frequently buy nowadays,
on ABE books, second-hand Descriptions of Languages (from the sixties,
the seventies, the eighties, etc.) which have been discarded by
libraries, wondering all the time what life would have been if I had
really used those languages and marvelling at the creativity of all
those geniuses.
I have almost all the books of D.E. Knuth, starting with TAOCP, and
continuing with his Collected Papers, etc.
I have never really seriously used TeX and MetaFont but I have bought
the books containing the listings of those programs (in Pascal)
I have discovered LilyPond a few years ago and use it for transcribing
Tamil Hymns for which I have found svara notation (in sa-ri-ga-ma
format), as for instance in the following examples:
"https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard/Musical-Transcription";
I have never used Frescobaldi (I am not sure what it is, but I see it
mentionned frequently on the list) and write my .ly files using a text
editor (I currently use NotePad+)
I enjoy reading messages on this mailing list and have received helpful
advice on a few occasions when I asked for help
Greetings to all
-- Jean-Luc Chevillard (Paris -- Pondicherry -- Hamburg)
"https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/JeanLucChevillard";
"https://plus.google.com/u/0/113653379205101980081/posts/p/pub";
"https://twitter.com/JLC1956";
On 2015-08-26 22:10, Urs Liska wrote:
This thread makes me wonder: what's the average age of
LilyPond users
>and
>developers?
Remind me in two weeks and I'll start a poll on Scores of Beauty
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