User talk:Ross Uber

Welcome to Wikibooks, Ross Uber!

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Thanks, Swift (talk) 04:16, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

(P.S. Would you like to provide feedback on this message?)

Thanks for improving the horn wikibook

I just wanted to thank you for working on the horn wikibook. I started it a bit ago, but don't have much time to devote to it. I check back on it now and then to add/edit and hope that others come and do likewise. I have a few questions and concerns about how you're doing the music though. What software are you using to generate the picture? Since you're releasing the picture into the public domain, could you also release the source file for future editing. I might suggest Lilypond be used for uniformity (and free/open-ness). Also there is some talk (neverending talk unfortunately) of adding music markup capability. Check out wikisophia for an example of a wikimedia based wiki that uses lilypond for markup. I've thought that if I had more time and if music markup didn't come soon to the wikimedia sites, it would be nice to have a wiki solely devoted to the horn or music that allowed music markup. Anyways keep it up!

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horndude77

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