Notes of gratitude this Xmas

Subject: RE: Notes of gratitude this Xmas
From: Haruo
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 01:22 AM

Here you go: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen set to the less well known, purportedly Cornish tune.

Liland

Subject: RE: Notes of gratitude this Xmas
From: Haruo
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 05:00 PM

I know what you mean, Bob, but I haven't figured out how to get it to work yet. When I try to do it black and white, the parts that show above as purple show as white; I need to train it to see all of those as black. Also, my scanner photo software won't let me save it as a GIF; I need, apparently, to save it as a BMP, then open that in Paint or something and resave it as a GIF. But I need to figure out what kind of BMP to save it as, since some of them have the same grey > purple problem the full-color GIF has. Hopefully in a few days I will have figured out more elegant solutions.

Genie, I was going to refer you to the English text, which is supposed to be in my online hymnal, but it's not there (the wrong song comes up) so I'll have to tinker with it. And I will indeed be working up some instrux on "Esperanto Pronunciation for Singers of English" sometime soon. You can hear a midi of it with the Esperanto text in my hymnal, here.

Liland

Subject: RE: Notes of gratitude this Xmas
From: Genie
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 01:18 PM

Thanks for posting it, Liland. Now if I just knew how to pronounce it! Do you have it on a CD or something like that?

Genie

Subject: RE: Notes of gratitude this Xmas
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 05:54 AM

G'day Liland,

If you told your scanner to just read black and white ... instead of "256 colours" or "greyscale" ... the GIF would be less than half as big ... and more than twice as fast ... and have no purplish blotches. You use GIF for simple colour schemes, greyscale or black & white. JPG is for full colour photographs (and may have lots of options in the level of compression ... but that's down the track.

Reagrds,

Bob Bolton

Subject: Notes of gratitude this Xmas
From: Haruo
Date: 25 Dec 01 - 11:27 PM

In the last couple days two things have transpired that bode well for my ability both to spend more time on the Mudcat and to reply more cogently and with more forethought than has recently tended to be the case.

First of all, my church has redone the locks, and now the key that I have had for years will let me into the church office, which means I can come in here in the middle of the night and post stuff if I want to. Heretofore I've only been able to use it on Sundays and on those rare weekdays when I get here early enough for the pastor or secretary to let me in. Most of my posting has had to be from public library terminals, where I'm limited to 45 minutes a day — barely enough to sift through my email.

And secondly, my brothers collaborated on getting my scanner working, so now I can scan stuff and post it or email it. Text, graphics, whatever. I feel like I'm finally somewhere in the late '90s, approaching the millennium. This will allow me to scan and post homemade sheet music, like this version of the Cornish-tune God rest you merry, gentlemen. The first image is what my machine calls a GIF; it has sort of purplish discolorations, but it takes less than half as many bytes as the second one, a JPEG.

Liland
Happy as a butter clam when tides are high ;-)