solfege

Langue: en

Version: februar 13, 2007 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

solfege - GPL'ed ear training software  

SYNOPSIS

 solfege [options]
 

DESCRIPTION

GNU Solfege is a program that let you use your computer to do ear training.

This man page contains info to get Solfege up and running. For help on using the program, please use the online documentation.

OPTIONS

This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').
\fB-v, --version
\fB-w, --warranty
Show warranty and copyright.
\fB--no-splash
Do not show the startup window.
\fB--verbose-sound-init
Display more info about the sound setup.
\fB--no-sound
Do not play any sounds. Instead some data is printed to standard output. Use this for debugging and porting.
\fB--debug
Include features used by the Solfege developers to debug the program. \fB--disable-exception-handler Disable the exception handling in Gui.standard_exception_handler.
\fB--no-random
For debugging only: Select questions from lesson files in sequential order.
\fB--without-gtkhtml
Run without using gtkhtml2 even if it is installed.
\fB--no-cairo-widgets
Do not use the cairo version of input widgets, even if we run gtk+ 2.8.0 or newer.
\fB--show-gtk-warnings
Show GtkWarnings and PangoWarnings in the traceback window.

BUGS

Plenty! You can report them to bug-solfege@gnu.org or http://www.solfege.org/wiki/SITS, or even better: post a patch to fix it to the same address. Remember to tell what version of Solfege you are running and the name and version of you operation system.

FILES

~/.solfegerc
This file is used to store most configuration values. While it is possible to edit the file by hand, everything you need can and should be done from the gui.
~/.solfege
Statistics is stored in subdirectories below this dir.

NOTES

If you don't have /dev/music it is possible that your kernel supports it. Try to create the device file yourself (as root):
           # cd /dev
           # mknod music u 14 8
 
 
To get more help on solfege, use the online documentation, look at the files in /usr/share/doc/solfege (debian users) and the README and INSTALL file from the downloaded .tar.gz file. If you have problems running solfege please post your questions to <solfege\fB-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>. Remember to mention what version of Solfege you have, and the name and version of your operating system. If possible, please check that the bug exists in the latest version of Solfege. GNU Solfege is Copyright 69 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by Tom Cato Amundsen <tca@gnu.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHOR

Main author of GNU Solfege and this manual page is Tom Cato Amundsen <tca@gnu.org>. For more details, read the AUTHORS file from the source tarball.