Re: [abcusers] Folk band

2001-07-12 Thread Phil Taylor
bert van vreckem wrote: I don't seem to be able to open your midi's, though (I'm using WinAmp on an NT 4.0 box.) The pdf's are fine, so it's not a corrupted zip file. There is something odd about these midi files on a Mac too (I downloaded the .hqx version). They all appear with the default

Re: [abcusers] Folk band

2001-07-12 Thread Tim Riley
Bert Van Vreckem wrote: I don't seem to be able to open your midi's, though (I'm using WinAmp on an NT 4.0 box.) The pdf's are fine, so it's not a corrupted zip file. There appears to be a (Mac-related?) header at the beginning of every midi file. If I removed the first 128 bytes (using a hex

Re: [abcusers] software query: abc to MIDI, abc to score

2001-07-12 Thread James Allwright
On Wed 11 Jul 2001 at 10:38AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: When I found that abc2ps and its relatives (abcm2ps is probably the best-maintained at the moment) weren't suitable for my purposes, I started converting my abc files to lilypond, and publishing them that way. Frank seems to share

Re: [abcusers] Folk band

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:03:23PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote: | Bert Van Vreckem wrote: | To create a gzip, you should `tar' your files first: | | Oh. I thought .tar was just for text files. tar actually stands for Tape ARchive because it was originally developed for the purpose of storing

Re: [abcusers] Folk band

2001-07-12 Thread Frank Nordberg
Phil Taylor wrote: Bert Van Vreckem wrote: | To create a gzip, you should `tar' your files first: | | tar cvf folkband.tar folkband/ | gzip On a Mac use SunTar to make the tar archive (you can set its options to leave out the resource forks) then drag that onto MacGzip. You

Re: [abcusers] software query: abc to MIDI, abc to score

2001-07-12 Thread Laura Conrad
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I found that abc2ps and its relatives (abcm2ps is probably the best-maintained at the moment) weren't suitable for my purposes, I started converting my abc files to lilypond, and publishing them that way.

[abcusers] abc2ps under debian GNU/Linux

2001-07-12 Thread Nathan Weston
Hello, Has anyone been able to get abc2ps working under debian? I had it working fine under redhat 7, but I am trying to switch to debian, and it appears to be producing bad pdf files. pstopnm gives me the following errors (which appear to be originating from ghostscript): pstopnm: Warning:

Re: [abcusers] abc2ps under debian GNU/Linux

2001-07-12 Thread Laura Conrad
Nathan == Nathan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nathan Has anyone been able to get abc2ps working under debian? I Nathan had it working fine under redhat 7, but I am trying to Nathan switch to debian, and it appears to be producing bad pdf Nathan files. pstopnm gives me the

Re: [abcusers] abc2ps under debian GNU/Linux

2001-07-12 Thread Anselm Lingnau
Nathan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone been able to get abc2ps working under debian? I had it working fine under redhat 7, but I am trying to switch to debian, and it appears to be producing bad pdf files. Have you tried the abc2ps package which is part of the Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [abcusers] software query: abc to MIDI, a

2001-07-12 Thread Markus Lutz
On 12 Jul 2001 13:52:18 -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: LC LC http://serpent.laymusic.org/lconrad/homepage/music/toweb/comeaway/allparts-fromabc2ps.pdf LC LC and by lilypond: LC LC http://serpent.laymusic.org/lconrad/homepage/music/toweb/comeaway/allparts-fromlily.pdf LC Should be

Re: [abcusers] Folk band

2001-07-12 Thread Phil Taylor
Frank Nordberg wrote: But in any case it's not as if the compressed archives saves any downloading time. The self-extracting hqx archive is actually considerably *larger* than the individual files, while the zip archive only saves 8%. I just thought it'd be a good idea for visitors to just have

Re: [abcusers] abc2ps under debian GNU/Linux

2001-07-12 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Anselm Lingnau wrote: | Nathan Weston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Has anyone been able to get abc2ps working under debian? I had it working | fine under redhat 7, but I am trying to switch to debian, and it appears to | be producing bad pdf files.

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

2001-07-12 Thread John Chambers
Steve Mansfield wrote: | Can I just sincerely apologise to everyone on the list | | (especially rjp, who will probably kill me at band practise tomorrow) | | for accidentally restarting the V: wars again? No, we won't forgive you! It's about time that someone made this mistake. Maybe we