Typesetting music

[fanf]

I've spent a fun evening getting to grips with Philip's Music Writer, the music typesetting software written by my esteemed colleague Philip Hazel. This is for the hymn music on the service sheet for our wedding. So far I have done hymn 2 and hymn 3. The result is quite nice, but the source files remind me strongly of the 1970s Bell Labs Unix typesetting utilities, especially because of the amount of fiddling you have to do to work around quirks in the source language.

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[emperor]

Hm. I wonder if this would have been easier in some other music type-setting program.

[rmc28]

He hasn't spent that on it.

Actually, I'm more concerned that he's typset the right tune for 'Father Hear The Prayer We Offer' because I thought we settled on something else, and we need to include the tune you've been practicing!

[emperor]

eek! I thought Marching was what we'd agreed upon?

Having looked, my email seems to think that's what I thought after I came round to play hymn tunes at you, but maybe I'd become confused. Which are you thinking of?

[rmc28]

If you've been practicing Marching and Tony's typeset Marching, then all is well.

I had a panic that it was a different tune you'd been practicing.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

And in which decade, precisely, did the esteemed Dr Hazel learn the craft of computer programming?

[bens_dad]

TF>> I've spent a fun evening getting to grips with Philip's Music Writer,
TF>> ... The result is quite nice, but the source files remind me strongly
TF>> of the 1970s Bell Labs Unix typesetting utilities

NP> And in which decade, precisely, did the esteemed Dr Hazel learn the
NP> craft of computer programming?

I could be wrong, but I *thought* it was the sixties.