Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Gaius Mulley
Gaius Mulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > M Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It was great to read the interview with Werner (our Fearless Leader?). > > What an interesting story! It is good to "meet" you, Werner. > > yes, thanks for taking the time do to the interview Werner. > Intere

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread David Evans
> It was great to read the interview with Werner (our Fearless Leader?). > What an interesting story! It is good to "meet" you, Werner. Agreed! Here I was, thinking Werner was primarily a math student instead of a musician. That's actually pretty cool. Most usually die of shock whe

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Kollar
M Bianchi wrote: It was great to read the interview with Werner (our Fearless Leader?). What an interesting story! It is good to "meet" you, Werner. Agreed! Here I was, thinking Werner was primarily a math student instead of a musician. That's actually pretty cool. Now all we need is a G

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Gaius Mulley
M Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was great to read the interview with Werner (our Fearless Leader?). > What an interesting story! It is good to "meet" you, Werner. yes, thanks for taking the time do to the interview Werner. Interesting to hear about Lilypond and that it is as quick to

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-May-06 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> > We also have the slang word `grotty', with similar meaning, and >> > presumably from the same Germanic root; in a `groff' context, the >> > connotation is somewhat unfortunate :-) >> >> You think you have a problem. I must be one of the few people named

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-May-06 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Werner, > >> Hehe. It's not only you -- the very problem why we don't have a >> `groff.org' is that this domain is owned by a person called Dana >> Groff. Actually, he (or she?) just owns that domain, with a basically >> empty web page. Probably only t

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Werner, > Hehe. It's not only you -- the very problem why we don't have a > `groff.org' is that this domain is owned by a person called Dana > Groff. Actually, he (or she?) just owns that domain, with a basically > empty web page. Probably only the associated email address is really > in us

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > We also have the slang word `grotty', with similar meaning, and > > presumably from the same Germanic root; in a `groff' context, the > > connotation is somewhat unfortunate :-) > > You think you have a problem. I must be one of the few people named > after a groff program. Hehe. It's not

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 9 May 2006 at 15:57:00 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>> Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International >>> Groff Confernece ;) >> >> So long as it's an improvement on the "Free Software Song" -- see: >> >> http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html >>

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > [...] the text is `pants' (this is the British > > word I get for the German `grottenschlecht' :-) > > Sounds about right! You must have a fairly good dictionary of > modern British slang, http://dict.leo.org Werner ___ Groff mailing list

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-09 Thread Keith MARSHALL
> Have you ever seen such a song in 7/4 rhythm? With other words, > the melody is fine, but the text is `pants' (this is the British > word I get for the German `grottenschlecht' :-) Sounds about right! You must have a fairly good dictionary of modern British slang, for my Consise Oxford Diction

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Actually, I'm not very interesting ... Well, this is true too, but of course I've meant ... I'm not very interested > in hearing Richard Stallman singing, [...] Werner ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International > > Groff Confernece ;) > > So long as it's an improvement on the "Free Software Song" -- see: > > http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html > > whence you can download it in .au or .ogg format. But Werner's > b

RE: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-09 Thread Ted Harding
On 09-May-06 M Bianchi wrote: > It was great to read the interview with Werner (our Fearless Leader?). > What an interesting story! It is good to "meet" you, Werner. > > Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International > Groff Confernece ;) So long as it's an improvement on