∂27-Apr-80  2032	Alan Kotok <KOTOK at DEC-2136> 	Music Typography Program    
Date: 27 Apr 1980 2122-EDT
From: Alan Kotok <KOTOK at DEC-2136>
To: lcs at SAIL
Subject: Music Typography Program

Ralph Gorin suggested that you have a program which produces printed
music notation.  My wife is doing a thesis which involves transcribing
numerous madrigals from part books to scores.  If you have anything
which might be of help, I would appreciate hearing from you.

If the program, (if it exists) takes input from alphanumeric terminals,
I could input the data from home.  It probably would not be of much use
to me if it required some Stanford-only terminal.

Thank you for your help.

Alan
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∂06-May-80  0844	Alan Kotok <KOTOK at DEC-2136> 	Music Typography Program    
Date: 5 May 1980 2101-EDT
From: Alan Kotok <KOTOK at DEC-2136>
To: lcs at SAIL
Subject: Music Typography Program

Thanks much for your long and helpful reply.  I have copied and printed
MS.LCS.  As expected, much is obscure in that document, but I suspect
I can get a long way with the simple directions included in your
message.

Dick Helliwell has offered to help me cause the output to be printed
on our Versatec Plotter, which is similar to an XGP, but it prints
on special paper.  He wonders what your output file format looks like.
If you can give me a pointer to the program which writes the output,
or some other clue as to what the output file looks like, I can pass
that info to him.

In the mean time, I would appreciate your mailing me the output from
the Gibbons example you did. Also, any other output with the corresponding
input would be helpful.

The scope of this project is 2 books of, I believe, 24 madrigals by one
Scipione Lacorcia.  Since they are all similar in format, I expect that
if I can get your help getting one correct, I can do the rest with minimal
help from your end.  If necessary, I can probably make it out there some
time to fine tune the output.  I hope to be able to use the local plotter
to see how I am coming.

Judie (my wife) and I certainly appreciate the interest you have taken,
and I hope not to take too much of your time.

My mailing address is:	Alan Kotok
			Digital Equipment Corp.
			ML3-5/H33
			146 Main St.
			Maynard, MA 01754

phone (617) 493-7381
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∂23-May-80  2030	EJG  	Ancient Fortran (F40) question    
Hi.  I seem to remember you asking me about a million years ago if there
was any way to control both the filename and extension of an F40 data
file.  Well, in case you never found it (and have just been using call
ifile and call ofile), I accidentally stumbled across a way to do it.  It
uses the "define" subroutine, which appears to be intended for use with
fortran random access files, but seems to work OK also on just normal
ASCII files.  In the example below, parameters are:

1:		fortran logical unit number.
0:		random access buffer size (I just guessed 0 would work).
iiiii:		random access "associated variable"; for safety, use
		 an unused integer variable name here.
'NAMEXXEXT ':	file name and extension, 10 characters.

I found this when looking for a way to tell F40 to use (e.g.) device
DSK for logical unit number 3, instead of device LPT.  (Other than
the kluge of using the monitor command "ASSIGN DSK 3".)  Do you by
any chance know how to do this?

---example---
	call define(1,0,iiiii,'NAMEZZEXT ')
	write(1,1)
1	format('  hoo hah')
	call exit
	end

∂27-May-80  1832	AK   on TTY162  1832 via MIT-TIP   
I will likely be out your way between June 6 and June 9.  I would very
much like to talk to you, preferably on the weekend.  Please let
me know whether this would be feasible, or if not, the name of
somebody I could talk to about the music typography program when I
am there.  I would like to set a madrigal, so I can gain experience.

Also, if there is a student who would like to be my California agent,
for money, let me know that, too.

Please send answer to KOTOK@@DEC-2136

∂16-Jun-80  1747	G.KOTOK at SU-SCORE 	Revised Madrigal   
Date: 16 Jun 1980 1743-PDT
From: G.KOTOK at SU-SCORE
Subject: Revised Madrigal
To: lcs at SU-AI
cc: g.kotok at SU-SCORE

I have done a number of cleanups on the files I had last weekend.
I have:
1) Put in numerous "??" items. (see comment later, herein)
2) Removed clefs at beginning of lines (except first line)
3) Removed extraneous slashes at end of input lines.
4) Merged all the files into one called "203[1,ak]".  My
	scheme of naming is a one digit book number "2",
	a 2 digit madrigal number "03", and a 2 digit page
	number, to be generated when expanding the file into
	20 odd small files.  The "pages" are separated by ↑L.

Could you please look this file over, and make any more labor
saving or other suggestions?  Since I have a total of 36 madrigals
to do, the less input, the better.  Actually, I am willing to
do more input from this end to save Rick Taube work at your end.

Speaking of Rick, I have been negligent about contacting him.
Let him know I will try and reach him soon.  Do you have some
idea of how much I ought to pay him for his services?  Is he
a graduate student?  What is the range of going rates?

Since most of the "??"s are intersyllable hyphens only used
to group the syllables of one word, Judie would be happy with
just a "-" between the notes.  Since the ?? puts in a long
dash, it will need considerable on-line editing to shrink them
down.  Might you consider another feature, say "!!" which puts
in a "-" centered between the notes?  If so, much labor could
be saved.

Thank you again for your time.
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∂16-Jun-80  1847	AK   via MIT-TIP 	More musical items    
(This message should be read following one of an hour or so ago
postmarked from SCORE.)

I have talked with Rick, and hopefully he will get together with
you.  Messages can be left for me here.

A few other items have come up after further discussions with Judie:
1) It would be nice to have a title in larger print at the top of
the first page.  While page numbers would be nice, I suspect they
will be impossible to have computer generated, since we won't know
what page number each madrigal will start on.

2) The final size of the output must be completely contained in 6 X 9
inches, to meet thesis format rules.  The stuff you printed was
6 X 10, so a 10% shrink will at least be necessary.  Some books
I have seen put only 2 groups of staves on the first page to allow
room for the title.  Better to do this than shrink everything to
allow space for the title which only appears on page 1.

3) We would like measure numbers every 10 measures.  If you can tell me
how to do it, I can supply them in the input.

4) There are a few editorial footnotes scattered
about the score.  These numbers need also be put in.  I suspect
they are easier for Rick to put in later.

We'll get this down to a science, yet!

∂19-Jun-80  1829	AK   via SU-SCORE 	Music Data Ready
There are now 20 files named 20301 thru 20320 in my area
ready for Rick Taube to try to push thru.  Bob Kusik, a cohort
of mine will be at Stanford all next week, and if some results
appear, he can cart them back to me.

Thanks.

∂24-Jun-80  1201	AK   via MIT-TIP 	Music Questions  
Judie and I have a few technical questions.  When would
be convenient to reach you by phone, and at what
number(s)?