I stated on my homepage (in french) the pros and cons (in my opinion) for abc :
- Only one whole file for a collection of tunes (unlike midi...) - quick to download (due to compactness (see above) and size) (but you know all that) - quite easy to transcribe (if one can a bit music) and really *fast* to enter score (more than any click'n'whateverelse expensive WYSIWYG software) - the bare partition (unlike abc, not all midifiles can be properly imported in sequencers : there is often notation problems) - can easily generate postscript (and then pdf) files - meeting nice people sharing their works, and more involved in music than in money-making (I hope it will stay like that). So rarely nowadays on internet. - no "human" expression in it (midi can a bit), no nuancies (but who really care ?) - need to know a bit solfege to use it (but it may be an advantage if it can give pple the idea to learn more musical theory thanks abc) - limited for some musics (in amplitude, even if one can write E,,,,,,,,, or a'''''''''') - an ambiguous name (there is many thinks not related to music with abc in it, so it gives bad clues in websearch : lilypond or mup are "unique" and more original names (I guess)) - the abc-draft evolves slowly (is it frozen now ?) :) >The only faster way to get music into a computer is to play it on >a midi keyboard, and even then you are usually going to have to >do a lot of post entry editing. maybe to use a notation scanning software. I've never use one but it's certainly faster than abc (abc is good for folk music, but for more than 2 staffs partitions it becomes a bit tricky). We can dream of a software that could scan a paper partition and transcribe it directly to abc. >phone (sorry, but I don't know which manufacturer) with an undocumented >feature that allows her to enter her own tunes for the phone to play >when it rings. The syntax is a bare-bones, stripped-down version of >abc. Imagine having access to 100,000 tunes (thanks to John Chambers's >web bot) to download into your cell phone! Oh noooo, please ! Don't reveal the existence of abc to the masses ! The abc sites all around the web will be parasited with those "custom your phone" rubbish :) ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
