Remo D. escreveu: > Hudson Lacerda wrote: > > >>Maybe some of you yet don't know that I have written some abcm2ps >>extensions [...] >> >>You can get my abcm2ps extensions from: >>http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/hfmlacerda/abc/fmt.zip >>http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/hfmlacerda/abc/abc-pt-2005-11-02.zip > > > Even if I already knew, I must confess I never had a look at your work > before. Really impressive! I still have to dig in all the examples but I > had a quick look and they look very good. [...] > Your examples are there to show that it *IS* feasible to get excellent > outcomes from ABC tools!
Thanks! > > The first thing I opened was the shaped note heads example. I can see > you can switch note heads inside the tune via decorations like !shape_m! > and rely on the postscript in the .fmt for having them rendered properly > in postscript. That's the idea. I have tried use only a small number of decos, and let the postscript operators do the almost all the work automatically. > > Note heads is a topic we briefly mentioned while talking about > percussisions, I would like to agree a syntax for shaped notes so that > whoever reads the abc file could understand it. BTW, I was thinking about `%%setdrum': a more suitable name should be `%%setpercussion', wouldn't you agree? (Incidentally, `%%setdrum' was a my suggestion... :-P ) > > My proposal is based on a set of note heads like: "head-square", > "head-moon", ... to be used in the following ways: > > 0) a suitable default for special cases (e.g. sharp == x shaped notes > for percussions) > > 1) mapping them explicitly (e.g." %%notehead square F" ). We should > provide a semantic for altered notes: in the preceeding example, how > should the head of "^F" shaped? My suggestion is that it should have a > square note head and the regular alteration sign. We should define a > semantic for pitch on different octaves. An example: > %%notehead square F F, % Only F, and F will be "squared" > %%notehead triangle G all % G G, g g' ... will all be "triangled" > %%notehead regular G all % Back to the standard noteheads [...] As Phil have pointed out, shaped notes are defined according to the key. The actual note heads are stardardized (two standards: Sacred Harp, which uses 4 shapes; and Shaped Notes, which uses 7 shapes). An ABC program could generate shaped notes just reading the K: field and some explicit instruction like `%%shapednotes true' (or a V: option). I think that the matter of modes is not relevant, because shaped notes are intended to a specific kind of music, based on Major and Minor scales, also harmonically simple. Solfa names as note heads, on the other hand, are more complex: there are 17 different solmization syllables. The program should take in account the occurring accidentals, the names/notes associations can change mid-tune, each mode can be sang in two ways (diatonic names and comparative names). Besides, there are local variants (`doh' or `do' or `dó'). In my current .fmt implementation, solfa names are globally set (there is a collection of `modes' one can choose), and decorations are needed in occurring accidentals (e.g. for `ta', `fi', etc.). -- Hudson Lacerda <http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/hfmlacerda/> *Não deixe seu voto sumir! http://www.votoseguro.org/ *Apóie o manifesto! http://www.votoseguro.com/alertaprofessores/ *Quem tem medo de GNU/Linux? http://linuxfud.org/ _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis: Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/mjFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abcusers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
