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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get a midi-editor working
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:10:53
Message-Id: 20060307160505.GA6582@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Trying to get a midi-editor working by Walter Dnes
1 On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:22:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked:
2 > 1) I emerged "rosegarden" (and dependancies) successfully. But there
3 > was no sound and no documentation. No "man rosegarden" and when I hit
4 > {F1} or click on "Help", it complains about "kfmclient not found". I'm
5 > running Blackbox, and no, I don't want to build KDE in all its bloated
6 > "glory", thank you.
7
8 http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
9
10 (as a side note, for a tool that is completely GUI, how would a man
11 page be useful?)
12
13 > 2) I unmerged "rosegarden" (and dependancies), and tried lilypond. It
14 > dies when doing the emerge on lilypond itself. I ran
15 > "emerge lilypond > logfile 2>&1" and got the following output in logfile...
16
17 If you just want to "edit a stinking midi file", then lilypond has no
18 use for you. It is music typesetting program, and AFAIK cannot got
19 from .midi to .ly
20
21 But sorry that I can't help with your compiling problem. What version
22 of app-text/mftrace do you have?
23
24 W
25 --
26 "The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred
27 character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in
28 at number 79. ....
29 When it's fall in New York, the air smells as if someone's
30 been frying goats in it, and if you are keen to breathe the
31 best plan is to open a window and stick your head in a
32 building."
33
34 - Nuff said??
35 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 115 days, 8:24
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get a midi-editor working Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>