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Computer programme "Dancemaster" - forwarded query
EvaDreyer
March 8, 2006, 9:51 a.m. (Message 44551)
In einer eMail vom 07.03.2006 19:13:08 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx: Hallo Eva! du hast mir für ein Paar Monate die e-mail Adresse von (...) gegeben. Ich habe ihm geschrieben aber bis jetzt keine Antwort bekommen. Weisst du zufällig wo ich diese "Dancemaster" Software finden kann? Vielen Dank und herzliche Grüsse, María Grimoldi (Buenos Aires, Argentinien) Can anybody help please? The item in question seems to be a computer programme called "Dancemaster" . Any ideas about who is the author/deviser of it and how Maria can get in touch with her/him? Eva Dreyer in Essen, Germany
Russell Ham wrote: > See http://clarkandsandy.com/DanceMaster/ This refers to a program for round dance cuers and, as such, is probably not the one the original inquiry was about. I would venture to guess that the actual »DanceMaster« in question is a program by Dirk Taeger which was supposed to help create Pilling-style diagrams. It hasn't been heard of in a *long* time and may have fallen prey to bit rot. I think that Dirk at least used to be based in Essen so maybe Eva is not so badly placed to try and find out what happened to him/his program. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau, Frankfurt, Germany ..................... xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything and they don't drink all your beer. -- Paul Leary
I second that it was most probably Dirk Taeger's program. Last time I checked (2 years ago), the bit rot was complete. If anybody does manage to locate that person, it would be nice to reestablish the contact (even if just to ask about the advice for future implementors in the same area). Regards, Alex. P.s. Is it even legal to generate Pilling's diagrams? I thought he copyrighted the whole thing.
Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: > P.s. Is it even legal to generate Pilling's diagrams? I thought he > copyrighted the whole thing. In their dreams! You can't copyright a notation any more than you can copyright a language or mathematical formula, as these come under the heading of »ideas«, which are not copyrightable. What you can (probably) copyright is individual diagrams of particular dances, which are considered »expression«. I remember hearing that F. L. Pilling's successors (the body now in charge of the WGB) complained to Dunedin Dancers of Edinburgh about their including Pilling-style diagrams in their dance books »without permission«. They only shut up after being pointedly asked whether *they* had bothered to ask permission from the authors of all the dances in the Pilling book. In any case, Pilling-style diagrams are the norm for pre-published ball programmes here in Germany (for better or worse). Don't ask where all the diagrams come from; there are newly-drawn ones but people also pinch ones from the book. However, I'm about to order at least five new copies of the book on behalf of members of my dance group, expressly because they want to get more familiar with the notation so as to understand these programmes better. Thus, going after people pinching a few diagrams from the Pilling book would probably be the single worst thing the Pilling people could do as far as sales of their book in Germany are concerned. (Incidentally, text-based minicribs are making some inroads here because they are so much easier to generate than Pilling-style programmes. I hate them :^)) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau, Frankfurt, Germany ..................... xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx Most physicists could, if necessary, make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics. -- Paul Graham, »What You Can't Say«
On 08/03/2006 09:51, xxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx wrote: > In einer eMail vom 07.03.2006 19:13:08 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt > xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx: > > Hallo Eva! > du hast mir für ein Paar Monate die e-mail Adresse von (...) gegeben. Ich > habe ihm geschrieben aber bis jetzt keine Antwort bekommen. Weisst du zufällig > wo ich diese "Dancemaster" Software finden kann? > Vielen Dank und herzliche Grüsse, > María Grimoldi > (Buenos Aires, Argentinien) > > > Can anybody help please? The item in question seems to be a computer > programme called "Dancemaster" . Any ideas about who is the author/deviser of it and > how Maria can get in touch with her/him? > > Eva Dreyer in Essen, Germany Dirk Taeger <xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx-xxxxxxxx.xx> Although I am unsure if this e-mail address is current. Alan