The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167810   Message #4052586
Posted By: Jon Freeman
15-May-20 - 07:59 AM
Thread Name: Mandolintabs.net gone?
Subject: RE: Mandolintabs.net gone?
I don't think Max has ever wanted to host something like this.

In any case, I'm not sure that type of converter would be the right way to go now that (last time I looked) abcm2ps seems to have been dropped by Jeff and the JavaScript type converters now seem to be in favour and can produce dots as you go along.

But that depends on what you want, I suppose.

The mandolintab one can do a fair bit but also have a few requirements, ie. to run:

php - to run the web scripts
abcm2ps - abc to both postscript and svg
abc2abc - transpose
python - for the musicXML scripts
ghostscript - postscript to pdf and to png
imagemagick - sonme image trimming and transparency ops
maybe extra php modules, eg, for xlm translate.

There were a few enquiries about hosting it when I closed folkinfo and Simon managed to meet the above needs.

I'll leave it at that for now...