Notesetters, Inc.
A blog about Music Publishing, Open-Source and Education
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Weblog Extension
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Installing Self-contained Executables in Ubuntu
Create a menu shortcut
Sunday, May 1, 2011
This blog post is being written using an applet called GNOME-Blogger. There are others I'd like to try out as well. I don't know if anything will beat OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice with the Sun Weblog Publisher because of the fine control I have over appearance and formatting, but we'll see.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
More Slick Desktops
I'll post some images of Ubuntu Studio when I can.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Working with videos in Transcribe!
- Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 (this procedure was tested on Windows XP)
- Transcribe! from Seventh String Software
- Quick Time from Apple
- Mozilla Firefox web browser (for downloading video from “tube” sites).
Monday, July 19, 2010
Open-Source Applications for Music Education - Launching
In the coming weeks I will begin writing tutorial articles for Examiner.com on open-source programs of use to Music Educators. My goal is to raise awareness of open-source solutions among educators generally and Music Educators specifically. Especially as educational institutions begin trending back toward open-source technology (and away from expensive licenses), I'm anticipating a vacuum of sorts for music teachers in particular. Many of the free alternatives to software music teachers (and musicians generally) rely upon are almost unknown to them. I hope to use Examiner to gain visibility for these applications and maybe generate some buzz about my own work in this area.
- Software demonstrated must be available on all three popular platforms: Windows®, Mac OS and GNU/Linux
- Each concise article will demonstrate a specific application's features and their use for a specific purpose. Each article will be a self-contained project that will be immediately useful to music teachers.
- New or derivative works created for the purpose of demonstrating the applications (a new work for strings, for example) will be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
- Articles will be accessible to those with basic computer skills (that is, they don't have to be computer whizzes). To achieve this, I'm going to include helpful screenshots that are pertinent to the procedures outlined in the articles, interleaved with the text.
In the coming days, I plan to post some more shots of desktops in Linux Mint, Ubuntu Studio and maybe the new OpenSUSE. Stay tuned...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Sun Microsystems WebLog Publisher extension for OpenOffice.org
Look what the Sun WebLog Publisher extension for OpenOffice.org can do. I can format my text the way I want to, and the formatting carries over when I publish my post—all without ever even opening a web browser to edit my post. It can even do this:
\version "2.13.13"
\include "english.ly"
\score {
\new Staff = "Guitar" {
\clef "treble_8"
\key a \minor
\time 4/4
\numericTimeSignature
<<
\new Voice = "notes" {
\relative c {
<c a'>8 <b gs'> <c a'> <d b'>
<e c'> <f d'> <e c'>4
}
}
>>
}
}
A whole block of text in monospace, just like it would appear in my text editor when I'm working on source files. That Rocks!!
Hyperlinks are easier to deal with too, since I can specify the target frame in an OO.o dialog instead of having to manipulate the html code in Blogger's browser interface. Nice!
Next, I'll give it a go with pictures and graphics. We'll see how Blogger handles it.