Re: [abcusers] draft for V:

2001-01-04 Thread Steve Mansfield
John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : It might be interesting to try to get together all the V: syntax that is currently implemented. I've made a summary of what abc2ps does at: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc/ABCtut_Voices.html I'd like to augment the little table with things

Re: [abcusers] draft for V:

2001-01-04 Thread Phil Taylor
One problem with multivoice abc which confuses users no end is that there is no way of inserting global fields (i.e. fields which apply to all voices) within a tune. I often get messages from users asking why doesn't this work: K:C V:1 abc V:2 abc V:3 abc K:G V:1 abc V:2 abc V:3 abc What

Re: [abcusers] draft for V:

2001-01-04 Thread James Allwright
On Thu 04 Jan 2001 at 09:48AM +, Phil Taylor wrote: It was probably something like this which prompted Jean- Francois to suggest that a P: field should reset the voice number to 1. In viewer programs the P: field is simply a label to be written above the first voice, but in player

Re: [abcusers] draft for V:

2001-01-04 Thread James Allwright
On Thu 04 Jan 2001 at 03:03PM +, Phil Taylor wrote: On Thu 04 Jan 2001 at 09:48AM +, Phil Taylor wrote: It was probably something like this which prompted Jean- Francois to suggest that a P: field should reset the voice number to 1. In viewer programs the P: field is simply a

Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-04 Thread Wil Macaulay
sigh You are absolutely right, XML is extensible, logical, and clean - to parsers. There are even music-related DTDs. Maybe we should write _all_music in XML - get rid of those funny dots, and stop pretending that an open oval _really_ somehow has a time value equal to four times a closed oval

Re: [abcusers] XML ( was draft for V: retraction..... )

2001-01-04 Thread Laura Conrad
"Bob" == Bob Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob At 08:46 PM 03-01-01 -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: "Richard" == Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard ie, if xml gives access to worthwhile stuff, how about an Bob abc2xml Richard converter ?

Re: [abcusers] XML ( was draft for V: retraction..... )

2001-01-04 Thread Bob Archer
At 12:49 PM 04-01-01 -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: I wasn't arguing about the input format -- what I meant is "Are there any applications that take XML input and produce output that I might prefer to the output of the programs I'm currently using?" If there are, I would support a converter of some

Re: [abcusers] draft for V:

2001-01-04 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
John Chambers a skrivas: Bob wrote: | At 12:10 PM 02-01-01 +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: | $ Starting a new part (P:) or giving a subtitle (T:) silently imply | $ switching to the first voice. | | Is the automatic switching to the first voice desirable / necessary? It | seems to me it

Re: [abcusers] XML ( was draft for V: retraction..... )

2001-01-04 Thread Eric Galluzzo
Laura Conrad wrote: "Bob" == Bob Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob XML gives quite a few advantages over ABC, I wasn't arguing about the input format -- what I meant is "Are there any applications that take XML input and produce output that I might prefer to the output of the

Re: [abcusers] draft for V:

2001-01-04 Thread John Chambers
Jean-Francois.Moine skribis: | John Chambers a skrivas: | [snip] | V: label par1=value1 par2=value2 ... | docs that come with abc2ps say that the label may be any "word", | but all the examples seem to use numbers. | | False: look at 'voices.abc' (abc2ps-1.3.0): you will see an