Musicology and LaTeX

Musicologists have a hard time – namely if they want to enrich their LaTeX-texts by score examples and harmony analyses. Up to now, there did not exist any study of whether and how that could be realized with free software. This article summarizes a paper – written in German – concerning the topic LaTeX and Musicology, which on the quiet has become a self-referential tutorial teaching what’s possible and what is not. → …

REPORT of 2022-04-24 about , , , , , etc. with 0 comments

TDOSCA & OSCake: Automating FOSS Compliance

By releasing the Open Source License Compendium and the Open Source Compliance Advisor, Deutsche Telekom has already supported the task to deal with Open Source Compliance. But DT offers so many and complex Open Source based products that it is too expensive to create the necessary Open Source compliance artifacts manually. Thus, DT needs a practically usable automated toolchain. → …

REPORT of 2020-11-28 about , , etc. with 0 comments

Salon Orchestra

Actually, every year I visit one of the Wies-Orchestra-Weeks realized by Werkgemeinschaft Musik. About some of them, I have already reported, most recently in 2016. But this year all these wonderful opportunities have been canceled – thanks to Covid-19. Personally, it has been sadly, but objectively it was necessary. But now? Completely without commonly making music? I had to find another option: → …

REPORT of 2020-09-18 about , , , , etc. with 0 comments

gtgt Or The Life After

In 2000, I had released the Gnu Template Generation Tools that instantiate a set of sources which were readily prepared for being developed, compiled, and installed with the GNU ‘Autoconf/Automake’ development environment. A few years later they were passed – by new languages, techniques, and tools. But now we have revitalized gtgt for special reasons of open source compliance: → …

REPORT of 2020-08-21 about , , , etc. with 0 comments