Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I'm pulling my hair because I don't manage to find a certain term to use in an abstract. We've talked about the issue over and over again, but how do we call it when using proprietary software prevents us from changing the tools to work with our data/documents? (Well, actually the same ef

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Trevor
locked-in? -- Original Message -- From: "Urs Liska" To: "lilypond-user" Sent: 18/08/2018 10:53:32 Subject: Proprietary Software term Hi, I'm pulling my hair because I don't manage to find a certain term to use in an abstract. We've talked about the issue over and over again, but

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Urs Liska
Am 18. August 2018 12:25:25 MESZ schrieb Trevor : > >locked-in? Strike! "Vendor lock in" was it what I was looking for. Thanks Urs > >-- Original Message -- >From: "Urs Liska" >To: "lilypond-user" >Sent: 18/08/2018 10:53:32 >Subject: Proprietary Software term > >>Hi, >> >>I'm pullin

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Andrew Bernard
Incompatibility for the second term, vendor lock-in for the first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in Andrew On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 at 20:17, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pulling my hair because I don't manage to find a certain term to use > in an abstract. > > We've talked about the

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Hi, > > I'm pulling my hair because I don't manage to find a certain term to > use in an abstract. > > We've talked about the issue over and over again, but how do we call > it when using proprietary software prevents us from changing the tools > to work with our data/documen

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Urs Liska
0 Am 18. August 2018 13:08:19 MESZ schrieb David Kastrup : >Urs Liska writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm pulling my hair because I don't manage to find a certain term to >> use in an abstract. >> >> We've talked about the issue over and over again, but how do we call >> it when using proprietary softwar

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread David Kastrup
Urs Liska writes: > Am 18. August 2018 13:08:19 MESZ schrieb DK: >>Urs Liska writes: >> >>> We've talked about the issue over and over again, but how do we >>> call it when using proprietary software prevents us from changing >>> the tools to work with our data/documents? (Well, actually the sam

Bar number under beam

2018-08-18 Thread damianlegassick
Hi all I want the bar numbers to remain close to the staff but things aren’t working for me if I beam across the carline with overridden beam positions. Any clues? Thanks as always Damian { \version "2.19.82" \set Score.timing = ##f \autoBeamOff \voiceOne \override BarNumber.outside-

Re: Bar number under beam

2018-08-18 Thread Ben
On 8/18/2018 11:55 AM, damianlegassick wrote: Hi all I want the bar numbers to remain close to the staff but things aren’t working for me if I beam across the carline with overridden beam positions. Any clues? Thanks as always Damian { \version "2.19.82" \set Score.timing = ##f \autoB

Re: Bar number under beam

2018-08-18 Thread damianlegassick
Hi I want bar 15 the same hight as bar 14 Damian > On 18 Aug 2018, at 17:20, Ben wrote: > > On 8/18/2018 11:55 AM, damianlegassick wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I want the bar numbers to remain close to the staff but things aren’t >> working for me if I beam across the carline with overridden beam

Re: [Frescobaldi] MIDI playback setup

2018-08-18 Thread Federico Bruni
Il giorno mar 7 ago 2018 alle 1:19, Simon Albrecht <"simon.albrecht"@mail.de> ha scritto: On 06.08.2018 17:34, ma...@masonhock.com wrote: Is libportmidi0 installed? Great catch, that was the culprit! Should that be added to the wiki page? Federico? Added to the wiki. Thanks

Re: Bar number under beam

2018-08-18 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2018-08-18 09:25, damianlegassick wrote: I want bar 15 the same hight as bar 14 { \version "2.19.82" \set Score.timing = ##f \autoBeamOff \voiceOne \override BarNumber.outside-staff-priority = #0 \override Stem.outside-staff-priority = #1 \override Beam.outside-staff-priority =

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/08/18 12:51, David Kastrup wrote: >> Indeed, that wasn't expressed too well. What I meant is that >> > CodaMusic's policy to use binary non-released (for some time even >> > encrypted) file formats strongly discouraged anyone to make a program >> > use these files. > That's more than just lo

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 19:55:01 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: > On 18/08/18 12:51, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Indeed, that wasn't expressed too well. What I meant is that > >> > CodaMusic's policy to use binary non-released (for some time even > >> > encrypted) file formats strongly discouraged anyone t

How to create an installer from the Lilypond build tree?

2018-08-18 Thread Engraver
Hallo all, I have a (rooted) Android tablet, on which I run Linux Debian by means of an app called Linux Deploy. The debian repositories for the ARMv7 (or armhf) chipset only contain Lilypond 2.18.2. That served me well for quite some time. However, the Edition Engraver requires at least Lilyp

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread David Kastrup
David Wright writes: > On Sat 18 Aug 2018 at 19:55:01 (+0100), Wols Lists wrote: >> On 18/08/18 12:51, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Indeed, that wasn't expressed too well. What I meant is that >> >> > CodaMusic's policy to use binary non-released (for some time even >> >> > encrypted) file formats

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/08/18 21:18, David Kastrup wrote: >> "Undocumented proprietary format" doesn't express the intent which >> > "lock-in" does. As David pointed out, patents can be used to protect >> > a proprietary format, only I don't think that, for example, the exFAT >> > filesystem is, in his words, a "str

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread David Kastrup
Wols Lists writes: > On 18/08/18 21:18, David Kastrup wrote: >>> "Undocumented proprietary format" doesn't express the intent which >>> > "lock-in" does. As David pointed out, patents can be used to protect >>> > a proprietary format, only I don't think that, for example, the exFAT >>> > filesyst

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/08/18 23:28, David Kastrup wrote: > zip has been defined using patentable techniques (like > https://www.google.com/patents/US5051745) but the implementations are > usually unencumbered. Just because it has been patented does not mean it is patentable :-( Of course, the problem is persuadin

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread David Kastrup
Wols Lists writes: > On 18/08/18 23:28, David Kastrup wrote: >> zip has been defined using patentable techniques (like >> https://www.google.com/patents/US5051745) but the implementations are >> usually unencumbered. > > Just because it has been patented does not mean it is patentable :-( > > Of

Re: Proprietary Software term

2018-08-18 Thread Wols Lists
On 19/08/18 00:34, David Kastrup wrote: > As any theoretical physicist will tell you, anything that involves > actual hardware also is maths. Are you telling me that maths PREscribes reality? Are you telling me that Newton got it right? If hardware is maths, then how comes physicists aren't creat