The Gleeman
Notes
Please note the following:
- The site has been tested with IE6 sp2 and Mozilla 1.7.6 on
Windows XP Pro.
- Printing - when printing the pages with scores and text, the
links at the bottom should
not be visible when printing. (The public domain copyright notice also
goes, as this is more specific to this site; to distinguish public
domain material from that which is copyright).
- Printing - to remove the standard browser header/footer, use the
"page
setup" menu option (for both IE6 and Mozilla). Do remember to take a
note of these to restore
afterwards!
The standard ones (on my system) seem to be;
IE6 Header - &w&bPage &p of &P
IE6 Footer - &u&b&d
Mozilla Header - | Title | --blank-- | URL |
Mozilla Footer - | Page # of # | --blank-- | Date/Time |
- To download the Midi or LilyPond files, use a right mouse click
on the relevant link. A
normal (left mouse) click on the Midi will open the relevant
application (for your browser) for playing Midis!
- The score image can be saved either by using the link provided or
by using the right mouse click on
the score image. in general, the text (without numbering) can be saved
either by
using the link or by
highlighting the text (with the mouse), and copying and pasting to a
text
file.
- I have avoided using Javascript in any of these pages, so having
Javascript disabled should not affect the site in any way. However,
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used. Even here, there should be
little effect if they are disabled - the main effect will be that links
will be visible when score/text pages are printed.
- So that the score/text page is kept clean (for perusal and
printing),
background notes on the airs and songs are written in a separate page.
- The only images used on the site are the images for the scores
and the Creative Commons symbol with the Copyright statements. There
are all in
.png format. The images for the scores were originally created as
transparent, for flexibility of use. However, I've had to re-create
them non-transparent as (i)
transparency in IE6 doesn't work (yet) for .png images, and (ii)
although they display correctly under Mozilla, when printed they come
out as a solid black box.
- LilyPond (lilypond.org)
was used to generate the .png scores and the Midi files. Under Windows,
this can be installed either using the provided Windows installer
(versions 2.6.x and later) or using Cygwin ( www.cygwin.com) (version 2.4.6).
The scores produced by LilyPond were cropped using
the Gimp (www.gimp.org).
Again, the
Windows version was used (www.gimp.org/windows/).
- Although the Midi files were generated by Lilypond, Lilypond is
primarily a music notation engraver. I have noted that sometimes the
Midi playback does not always reflect the score. For instance,
ornaments (trills and grace notes) may sometimes be missing. As the
Midi playback is to give an idea of the melody, this is not a serious
issue.
