[Menvi-discuss] Some ideas for software tools

[Bettie & Bill Downing]

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On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote:

> Hello,
> My concern is that the user is going to have to do actions while they
> are in playback which can become really really really annoying when
> there are many examples one right after another.
> IPhones or IOS devices are very cheep and support Braille. This means
> you pair a Bluetooth display with the phone and any text gets sent to
> the display. It may be a good idea to take a look at the new music
> font that is being created by Steinberg as that could become a great
> compromise for everyone. It would just be learning music by ear in a
> whole new way.
> 4th octave sharp d quarternote, fourth octave sharp c quarter note,
> third octave a quarter note...
> Thanks,
> 
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> 
> On 8/8/13, Dale Lieser <dale.lieser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like it!
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Menvi-discuss [mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces at menvi.org] On Behalf Of
>> Marc Sabatella
>> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 3:47 PM
>> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy
>> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Some ideas for software tools
>> 
>> On 8/8/2013 1:34 PM, Dale Lieser wrote:
>>> My concern with an auto-switch to a program is that when one is simply
>>> browsing a document to see what it contains, the actual hand-off to
>> another
>>> program might come too soon. Perhaps there could be a mode toggle to
>>> offer
>> a
>>> choice between browsing or exploring vs. auto-program-open.
>> 
>> Oh, certainly.  I was actually imagining it might take an explicit
>> action, but a simple one.  Like when it comes to an example, it says
>> "press space to continue with the text, or Enter for the musical
>> example" or some less verbose version thereof.  These are details of the
>> individual tools themselves, I think, and assuming we don't screw up too
>> wildly with the definition of the format, it would be possible to
>> implement any interactions style you wanted.
>> 
>> As an example of what I envision this format looking like, I could see
>> it being a word processing document with the examples embedded as images
>> but with metadata containing either the MusicXML itself or a link to a
>> MusicXML file.  Or the same sort of thing based on HTML.  Tools would
>> process the text as they already do, but when coming to one of these
>> specially-marked graphic objects, would know to switch to whatever
>> notation-handling mode was configured.  Or, it could be a matter of a
>> simple conversion tool that converts from this format to a Braille
>> document or to an HTML file will the embedded graphics converted into
>> links to the audio playback.  Tons of possibilities here.
>> 
>> Marc
>> 
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