The Forms of Tonality now Online!

All;

Paul Erlich's fantastic paper, *The Forms of Tonality*, is
now available on the web...

http://lumma.org/tuning/erlich/

Getting it down to 400K is an achievement, I'm sure you'll
agree, Paul. Strongly recommend Acrobat 6 to view it.

-Carl

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Carl Lumma <ekin@l...> wrote:
> All;
>
> Paul Erlich's fantastic paper, *The Forms of Tonality*, is
> now available on the web...
>
> http://lumma.org/tuning/erlich/
>
> Getting it down to 400K is an achievement, I'm sure you'll
> agree, Paul. Strongly recommend Acrobat 6 to view it.
>
> -Carl

thanks so much, carl. hoping to correct the typos soon.

C,

{you wrote...}
>Paul Erlich's fantastic paper, *The Forms of Tonality*, is now available >on the web...

Wasn't it on the web at John Starrett's site?

>Getting it down to 400K is an achievement, I'm sure you'll agree, >Paul. Strongly recommend Acrobat 6 to view it.

Will A6 change the fact that the pages with graphics all end up being different sizes? When scrolling through the doc, the text pages get routinely shrunk in size so that the graphics pages can fit. I'm not sure if this is something that doesn't display well on A5.1.something, but just checking before I would bother to dl A6.

Cheers,
Jon

>Wasn't it on the web at John Starrett's site?

No.

>>Getting it down to 400K is an achievement, I'm sure you'll agree,
>>Paul. Strongly recommend Acrobat 6 to view it.
>
>Will A6 change the fact that the pages with graphics all end up being
>different sizes?

No. Paul's graphics were different sizes. He apparently let his
printer scale them to the page for the hard copy. Rather than
spending a lot of time resampling them and making them look like
crap, I let them be. I haven't tried printing, but presumably
Acrobat does the Right Thing. Meanwhile it hardly matters for
on-screen viewing.

>When scrolling through the doc, the text pages get routinely shrunk
>in size so that the graphics pages can fit. I'm not sure if this is
>something that doesn't display well on A5.1.something, but just
>checking before I would bother to dl A6.

All versions of Acrobat have viewing zoom control. Set it however
you like!

-Carl

C,

{you wrote...}
> >Wasn't it on the web at John Starrett's site?
>
>No.

Oh, that was the 22 paper.

>No. Paul's graphics were different sizes.

I see.

> >When scrolling through the doc, the text pages get routinely shrunk
> >in size so that the graphics pages can fit. I'm not sure if this is
> >something that doesn't display well on A5.1.something, but just
> >checking before I would bother to dl A6.
>
>All versions of Acrobat have viewing zoom control. Set it however you like!

I understand that, having used A for a long time. When you start the piece, a normal text page fills the area, but when a larger graphic comes up, the next page becomes smaller. I've never seen a pdf do this, and was just checking that it wasn't a backward compatibility issue.

I think we should put this on metatuning now.

Cheers,
Jon

>When you start the piece, a normal text page fills the area, but
>when a larger graphic comes up, the next page becomes smaller.

Acrobat now has an unbelievable number of options for default
flow and zoom behavior. What you describe isn't happening to
me, but it's senseless to try and pin this down -- there are
way too many variables. Some options are stored in the pdf,
some are in the viewer prefs. It's crazy. There's even a 'bug'
in which the default zoom nomenclature is different in two
different places of the pdf creator widget. Adobe is the King
of this sort of terrible engineering. Just have to learn to
live with it.

-Carl