Re: [abcusers] linux only ?

2001-07-07 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: Frank Nordberg wrote: | James Allwright wrote: | Unless it has changed radically since I last looked, it is a source code | distribution that will compile and run on anything with a C compiler... | | That's really great, but there's still a minor problem. | | One of the

Re: [abcusers] linux only ?

2001-07-07 Thread Phil Taylor
| (I have been tempted to translate abc[m]2ps to perl, just for the | yuks, and for extra portability. Then it wouldn't have to be | compiled. But I bet I'd get flamed because perl doesn't come | pre-installed on all possible computer systems. ;-) | | Wouldn't the most

Re: [abcusers] chords writing in abc

2001-07-07 Thread Bryancreer
Phil Taylor wrote - All extensions start out as program-specific. Why? Why shouldn't they start out as proposals for discussion and feedback from other developers and even users? That way the idea might be improved on and clashes avoided and the resulting definition included in the standard

Re: [abcusers] chords writing in abc

2001-07-07 Thread Phil Taylor
Bryan Creer wrote: Phil Taylor wrote - All extensions start out as program-specific. Why? Why shouldn't they start out as proposals for discussion and feedback from other developers and even users? That way the idea might be improved on and clashes avoided and the resulting definition

Re: [abcusers] linux only ?

2001-07-07 Thread John Chambers
Bryan Creer writes: | I'm in a state of shock. I find myself totally agreeing with something Phil | Taylor has said - Hmmm ... Maybe you need to adjust your medication. | John Chambers had said - | | Great! Someone provides a program that solves the problem of binary | incompatibility by

Re: [abcusers] linux only ?

2001-07-07 Thread Frank Nordberg
John Chambers wrote: Great! Someone provides a program that solves the problem of binary incompatibility by supplying the source in ANSI C. Several people report compiling it on various obscure systems without any problems. So the programmer gets criticised for writing a program

Re: [abcusers] linux only ?

2001-07-07 Thread D-Man
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:11:11AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: | (I have been tempted to translate abc[m]2ps to perl, just for the | yuks, and for extra portability. Then it wouldn't have to be | compiled. But I bet I'd get flamed because perl doesn't come | pre-installed on

[abcusers] One note, four chords

2001-07-07 Thread Simandl124
Stupid user question. The melody in a tune is holding a whole note, while the piano plays four different chords (one on each beat). Is it possible to notate this in abc without using tied quarter notes for the melody? (If it makes a diffference, I use yaps, abc2ps-14x, and abc2midi in Windows