Re: [abcusers] V: field

2000-11-14 Thread Henning Kiel
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Phil Taylor wrote: James Allwright wrote: When I first introduced the V: field into abc2midi, the syntax was very simple: V:voice number Since then, people have added extra fields after the voice number, which is where the complication arises. Could we all agree

[abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Henning Kiel
Hi, have you abc2whatever writers thought about writing compact symbols for rests spanning multiple bars? Especially if you have multi-voice music you come across this thing and printing 20 bars of rests is very annoying, even with barnumbers and very ineffective in space. I've seen rests

Re: [abcusers] V: field

2000-11-14 Thread Phil Taylor
Henning Kiel wrote So then why not use inline V: fields for this case? [V: 1] ab g2 | fe [V: 2] g2 bf | d2 No real reason except that it takes a couple of extra symbols, and involves placing an inline field at the start of a line, which seems a bit redundant. Looks neat and does not require

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread John Atchley
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Henning Kiel wrote: I don't know how other programs than abcm2ps handle !f! symbols (abc2ps doesn't), but abcm2ps prints the symbols above the music line, but I would like to have it below... Do we need a %%symbolsbelow tag here? In jaabc2ps I used two switches for each

Re: [abcusers] V: field

2000-11-14 Thread John Atchley
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Phil Taylor wrote: John Atchley wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Phil Taylor wrote: as an option. (It's not difficult to program; you just have to treat a space following the voice number as equivalent to a line end.) Doing so would blow all the abc with V:1 clef=bass

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread jc
Henning Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrivit: | On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | "^20"z8 | or | !17!z8 | | | But a midiplayer would of course not wait 17 bars... Well, if it were combining multiple voices, I'd hope it would. But when playing just the one part, it could be

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Henning Kiel
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henning Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrivit: | On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | "^20"z8 | or | !17!z8 | | | But a midiplayer would of course not wait 17 bars... Well, if it were combining multiple voices, I'd hope it would.

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Eric Galluzzo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So I was just talking about a feature of displaying tools, not a real | feature of ABC. | For a quick hack, for me the "^17"z8 would work, but not if I would | extract my clarinet part from a whole partitur. The traditional staff notation also qualifies as a

Re: [abcusers] V: field

2000-11-14 Thread Eric Galluzzo
Phil Taylor wrote: Would you then expect a K: field in multivoice to affect all voices simultaneously? It's not the case in BarFly, since you can have simultaneous voices playing in different keys. (I haven't actually found any use for this, but it might come in handy if I ever get avant

Re: [abcusers] V: field

2000-11-14 Thread stephanie
hi I'd tried many times to un subscribe with no success. Can someone pleazse remove me? Thanks Steph At 21:28 14/11/00 -0500, you wrote: Phil Taylor wrote: Would you then expect a K: field in multivoice to affect all voices simultaneously? It's not the case in BarFly, since you can have

Re: [abcusers] accidentals in ()

2000-11-14 Thread John Henckel
I recommend that when (if?) the ABC notation standard is updated, it should contain syntax for "helper" accidentals. I am going to hack my version of abcm2ps (called jhabc2ps) to support accidentals in parentheses. Does anyone have a recommendation for the syntax? I am thinking about using