The form of my scope list con­vinced me to talk about Font Awe­some Icons and cus­tom CSS class­es in bootScore, first. A pure HTML list is ugly, in my case: down­right unread­able. No amount of reword­ing or restruc­tur­ing helped. Short­en­ing it was not an option either. It should con­tin­ue to func­tion as a com­plete scope state­ment. So I had to change its appear­ance. […]

That I would have to give up YAML-CSS had quick­ly become clear to me at the begin­ning of the year. What I should replace it with, not. I want­ed to stay with Word­Press. And to recy­cle my old con­tent. So, all I had to do was to replace my old theme. The­o­ret­i­cal­ly. Even­tu­al­ly, I end­ed up migrat­ing to bootScore: […]

Recent­ly I wrote about the ‘expir­ing’ edi­tor Atom. Now I’ve stum­bled upon anoth­er dead horse in my sta­ble: YAML CSS. That has noth­ing to do with YAML ain’t Markup Lan­guage. It’s a mod­u­lar CSS frame­work for tru­ly respon­sive web­sites. For years, it served me faith­ful­ly, first in Typo3, then on Word­Press. And now? […]

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 Visu­al Stu­dio Code”. What a dis­ap­point­ment for an Atom lover like me. So — what now? […]

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 an expand­ed and refined Bitkom Open Source Guide 3.0, — again intend­ed to be a man­u­al and a bench­mark for com­pa­nies […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 with respect to LaTeX and Musi­col­o­gy: […]

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, the CC-BY image trolls: […]