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12. December 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
The Atom page says: “Atom and all repositories under Atom will be archived on December 15, 2022″. The “hackable text editor for the 21st Century”, developed by GitHub — “[…] had not had significant feature development for the past several years” and that GitHub has therefore “[…] decided to retire Atom” in favor for “Microsoft […]
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11. July 2022 / 8. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
For 6 years, the Bitkom Open Source Guide 2.0 was a tutorial for the appropriate use of open-source software. It was a benchmark for German companies. But it has aged over time, naturally. Good that Bitkom and its ‘Open Source’ working group have taken up the topic again: In June 2022, there was officially released […]
11. July 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | 8 Comments on Frescobaldi on Ubuntu 22.04: with pip or apt
Under Ubuntu 22.04, Frescobaldi starts with an error: The area for displaying the music sheets says that Frescobaldi unexpectedly passes an argument of the type float to a function in qpageview /highlight.py respectively qpageview/shadow.py. Now, you can ‘google’ for the cause — or read the following lines:
6. July 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
After having updated to Ubuntu 22.04, I recently wanted to reactivate my music work environment. But when I installed Musescore‑3 and let it play my music score, I got an ugly mess of background noises. And I could not add any soundfont. Obviously, I faced two obstacles that I had to overcome
Humanities Musicology
24. April 2022 / 11. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
Musicologists have a hard time — namely if they want to enrich their LaTeX texts by score examples and harmony analyses. Up to now, there did not exist any study of whether and how that could be realized with free software. This article summarizes a German-written self-referential tutorial teaching what’s possible and what is not […]
26. February 2022 / 8. August 2023 by Karsten Reincke | Leave a Comment
A presentation without images sucks. Therefore, we are sometimes tempted to take some from the Internet for beautifying our work. There are so many excellent pictures on the World Wide Web. But to legally inserting a foreign picture in one’s own presentation is not that easy. Unfortunately, a new type of troll has emerged recently, […]