On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, John Chambers wrote:
Richard Robinson [w]rites:
| On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Wendy Galovich wrote:
|
|Really?? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls sound like in abc?? :-)
| (Sorry John, I couldn't resist!)
|
| Quite right too - it's the best bit of bait I've seen in ages :)
John Chambers wrote:
So how does one go about identifying which of the graphics files
and/or PDF/PS files contain music?
[snip]
How did you discover those 7560 images of music? How would one go
about sifting through the billions of images on the Net and
identifying
John Chambers wrote:
|
| Really?? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls sound like in abc?? :-)
| (Sorry John, I couldn't resist!)
Hmm ... Maybe we could find the transcriptions on the Web, stick an
ABC header on a few passages, and see what they sound like. It makes
as much sense as
"Frank" == Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think Wil was talking about formats in which music *information* is
available, not formats which graphically display information. All the
stuff in GIF or PDF on Musica Viva comes from music information which
has been
John Henckel wrote:
At 04:39 PM 1/5/2001 +0100, Frank wrote:
I've started building a multiformat sheet music search engine, indexing
music in GIF, JPEG, PS, PDF and ABC formats (the only truly
cross-platform compatible formats for notated music).
What?? You forgot the most important
"James" == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James On the topic of voice numbers needing to be contiguous
James (Laura's post); this restriction did exist in early
James versions of abc2midi, but the current version should allow
James non-contiguous voice numbers.
No,
John Chambers wrote:
Still, I'd estimate that there are maybe 20K truly distinct ABC tunes
on the web that my search program has found, on about 125 machines.
Here are the 123 ABC sites I've listed at The Free Sheet Music Directory.
It's probably not absolutely identical to John's list
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, John Chambers wrote:
So how does one go about identifying which of the graphics files
and/or PDF/PS files contain music?
It seems to me that discovering that these contain music is far from
trivial. For the gif and png files, it's probably not possible with
the
Antti Kaihola wrote:
On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, John Chambers wrote:
So how does one go about identifying which of the graphics files
and/or PDF/PS files contain music?
It seems to me that discovering that these contain music is far from
trivial. For the gif and png files, it's probably
Richard Robinson wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Wendy Galovich wrote:
At 09:31 PM 1/5/2001 UTC, John Chambers wrote:
... In a couple cases, people have scanned in music
so that others can transcribe it to abc. (This isn't unusual; it has
been done with a lot of old documents, most
John Chambers wrote:
Laura writes:
| I think the problem is that parsing lilypond files is more complicated
| because they potentially have more structure than ABC files, and can
| have includes, etc. I don't know how difficult what you do with the
| ABC would be in practice.
I think
On Juanury 4th John Henckel suggested to make the abc notation XML
compatible, but then said he had changed his mind since that would have
meant would sacrifying too much of the clarity and
usability of ABC.
Richard Robinsons replyed:
Have you ever looked at raw musixtex, as, eg, hint hint,
Eric writes:
| I don't want to do that myself, you understand; just curious, because it
| was such a very long time that they weren't available.
|
| On the other hand, I'm sure the copyright has expired by now
Part of the fun of this story was that the original "owners" tried to
make a
At 01:26 PM 1/6/2001 +0100, you wrote:
Here are the 123 ABC sites I've listed at The Free Sheet Music Directory.
Hi Frank,
I discovered yesterday that HotBot can search for web pages that contain
files with specified extensions. When I told HotBot to search for all ABC
files, it found 1100
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