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General Discussion / Re: Scriptorium Update
Last post by Richard Woodroffe -
Folks
The Scriptorium has been updated with works submitted by :

Maurizio Spagni   Gitana - caprice pour la harpe, op. 21   (Hasselmans)
Maurizio Spagni   Guitare - pièce charactéristique, op. 45    (Hasselmans)
Richard Woodroffe   Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt "Sehnsucht" D310   (Schubert)


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Stay safe 

Richard
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General Discussion / Re: Scripts and programs
Last post by Flurmy -
Yes, Lawrie, as far as I know you're correct.
Just a detail: the original pascal was a semi-compiled language. The compiler used to generate the so-called "P-code", later interpreted during runtime.
Then arrived Borland Turbo Pascal...  ;)
Look here.
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General Discussion / Re: Scripts and programs
Last post by Lawrie Pardy -
Love the Ada Lovelace example.

Please correct me if I'm wrong (likely) but the way I now understand it is that a program ends up being compiled, whereas a script has come to mean any language that requires an interpreter to be running, and halfway between that are the semi-compiled languages though the compiling step would make me consider them programming languages rather than scripting languages.

Thus: C, Pascal etc. are programming languages - they need to be compiled before they will do anything.
VBScript, Javascript, php etc. are scripting languages - they use an interpreter to parse a text file in real time.
Then there's the semi-compiled languages that are compiled into an intermediate format (e.g. Bytecode) but still require a runtime component to interpret the semi-compiled "program".  I believe .NET, java and python are current examples of this approach.
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General Discussion / Scripts and programs
Last post by Flurmy -
Quite often, the terms script and scripting are used as synonyms for program and programming, respectively.
The inventor of the Perl programming language, Larry Wall, tried to explain the difference between script and program in a humorous way.
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Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program.
She’d probably look at you funny, then say something like: «Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience».
That Ada was one sharp lady…
Since her time, we seem to have gotten a bit more confused about what we mean when we say scripting.
It confuses even me, and I’m supposed to be one of the experts.
:D
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Object Plugins / Re: Ottavamatic.ms (2.0)
Last post by bjhall1950 -
I'm new to all this. I've tried using the Ottavamatic.ms command for notation on a song for our church pianist.

I guess I'm doing something wrong. How do I get it to display the 8va-------------- over or under the notes? Do I blank out the other options in the dialogue box? It doesn't work that way. I've tried that, but still don't get the object to display or print.

So far, the only way I can get the markings I need is to use insert text. I know that isn't right, but it is the best I can think of.

I've been a NWC user for many years. I'm just now needing this object to work. Any help would be appreciated.

BJ
Just to make sure you're using the object correctly:
  • Insert the object (normally at the start of a staff) and make sure the parameters suit your requirements - the defaults usually will
  • At the location in the staff where you need the 8va et al to appear place an Instrument Change (press <I>).  You can clear all the patch details if you want, just make sure the transposition reflects what you need(E.G. add 12 for 8va, -12 for 8va bassa)
  • If you are notating a transposing instrument, take the pre-existing transposition into account for not only the instrument change but also the objects parameters.  IE for a tenor sax, the pre-existing transposition will be -14, so you need to tell Ottavamatic about it in the "Staff Transpose" field, then when you want the 8va, use -2 (12 semitones higher than the existing transposition) in the Instrument Change dialogue
  • To remove the 8va etc. simply put in another Instrument Change return the staff to "0", or to the original transposition for a transposing instrument.

EURICA! It worked. Thank you so much for your help
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Object Plugins / Re: Ottavamatic.ms (2.0)
Last post by Lawrie Pardy -
I'm new to all this. I've tried using the Ottavamatic.ms command for notation on a song for our church pianist.

I guess I'm doing something wrong. How do I get it to display the 8va-------------- over or under the notes? Do I blank out the other options in the dialogue box? It doesn't work that way. I've tried that, but still don't get the object to display or print.

So far, the only way I can get the markings I need is to use insert text. I know that isn't right, but it is the best I can think of.

I've been a NWC user for many years. I'm just now needing this object to work. Any help would be appreciated.

BJ
Just to make sure you're using the object correctly:
  • Insert the object (normally at the start of a staff) and make sure the parameters suit your requirements - the defaults usually will
  • At the location in the staff where you need the 8va et al to appear place an Instrument Change (press <I>).  You can clear all the patch details if you want, just make sure the transposition reflects what you need(E.G. add 12 for 8va, -12 for 8va bassa)
  • If you are notating a transposing instrument, take the pre-existing transposition into account for not only the instrument change but also the objects parameters.  IE for a tenor sax, the pre-existing transposition will be -14, so you need to tell Ottavamatic about it in the "Staff Transpose" field, then when you want the 8va, use -2 (12 semitones higher than the existing transposition) in the Instrument Change dialogue
  • To remove the 8va etc. simply put in another Instrument Change return the staff to "0", or to the original transposition for a transposing instrument.
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Object Plugins / Re: Ottavamatic.ms (2.0)
Last post by bjhall1950 -
I'm new to all this. I've tried using the Ottavamatic.ms command for notation on a song for our church pianist.

I guess I'm doing something wrong. How do I get it to display the 8va-------------- over or under the notes? Do I blank out the other options in the dialogue box? It doesn't work that way. I've tried that, but still don't get the object to display or print.

So far, the only way I can get the markings I need is to use insert text. I know that isn't right, but it is the best I can think of.

I've been a NWC user for many years. I'm just now needing this object to work. Any help would be appreciated.

BJ
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General Discussion / Re: Scriptorium Update
Last post by Richard Woodroffe -
Folks
The Scriptorium has been updated with works submitted by :


Richard Woodroffe    D727 So lasst mich scheinen "Mignon II"   (Schubert)
Maurizio Spagni   The trip to Sligo    (Trad Irish)
Maurizio Spagni   Ductia (Anon)

If you would like to be notified every time the Scriptorium is updated, please send an e-mail  requesting Scriptorium Update    notification to nwcscriptorium "at" gmail "dot" com
https://nwc-scriptorium.org/whatsnew.html

Sorry it's so late - been a bit out of salts


Stay safe 

Richard
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User Tools / Re: Percussion splitter
Last post by Flurmy -
A program update.
The changes are too many to be listed, hence version 2.0, but in a nutshell I can resume them as: much, much less need for manual adjust of the resulting staves.
The usage instruction are unchanged.
You can find the new code in the first message of this thread.