Re: [abcusers] chords writing in abc/little V: comment

2001-07-10 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: Bryan Creer hath writ: | I can see that we're going to end up having to write smart software | which can figure out the right answer from anything which looks like abc. | | Or, alternatively, we can all work to the same standard and save ourselves a | lot of trouble. Fat

Re: [abcusers] chords writing in abc/little V: comment

2001-07-10 Thread Bryancreer
Phil Taylor said - The standard is abc v1.6. There's also a proposed draft standard which is still under discussion. Neither of them even mentions multivoice abc. Does that mean that nobody is allowed to post tunes which use the V: field to this group, which is devoted to the discussion of the

[abcusers] C Compilers (was linux only ?)

2001-07-10 Thread James Allwright
My favourite would be DJGPP: http://www.delorie.com/ which is a port of GCC and comes with lots of useful tools. If you want something that with fit on a single disk, I would suggest trying Pacific C http://www.htsoft.com/products/pacific.html Both of these will run under Windows, but don't

[abcusers] barlines at the beginning of a staff

2001-07-10 Thread Jack Campin
At the other end of the staff, I've received several messages from people complaining about some of my files that put a bar line at the start of the staff. They insist that this is illegal. It isn't, of course, and is in fact common practice in some musical circles (mostly

Re: [abcusers] linux only ?

2001-07-10 Thread Laura Conrad
flos == flos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: flos Right, where do I get a C compiler for Windows 98 SE? Try http://www.cygwin.com -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 To subscribe/unsubscribe,

Re: [abcusers] chords writing in abc sources compiling

2001-07-10 Thread Forgeot Eric
Thanks to everyone who give some good advices for displaying multible voices on one staff. The command %%staves 1 (2 3) worked well with abcm2ps. I thought I could be good to propose new features in the abc format, for example, in the brackets for the chords [], we could have symbolised

Re: [abcusers] chords writing in abc/little V: comment

2001-07-10 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, John Chambers wrote: Modern GUIs are very well designed, for people with three hands. The real problem has been how slow customers have been to make necessary hardware upgrades to meet the requirements of the software. Quite ;-) -- Richard Robinson The whole plan

[abcusers] Three-handed job.

2001-07-10 Thread Phil Taylor
Richard Robinson wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, John Chambers wrote: Modern GUIs are very well designed, for people with three hands. The real problem has been how slow customers have been to make necessary hardware upgrades to meet the requirements of the software. Quite ;-) You might be

Re: [abcusers] linux only ?

2001-07-10 Thread Gianni Cunich
On 06/07/01 at 13.02 James Allwright wrote: . Perhaps we need someone to write a noddy front-end that invokes an abc2ps clone, ghostscript and then an image viewer to bring free abc typesetting to the masses. Seymour Shlien has been doing that for quite a few years, and that currently Runabc