Re: [abcusers] Three-handed job.

2001-07-23 Thread Henrik Norbeck
Phil Taylor wrote: [snip most of long quote from Apple] Hence, users achieve a significant productivity increase with the mouse in spite of their subjective experience. One advantage (over mouse commands) of a using more keyboard commands is that you have a lower risk of getting mouse-arm.

Re: [abcusers] little V: comment

2001-07-23 Thread Henrik Norbeck
What worries me about the use of an inline field for V: is that it is an invitation to people to put [V:2] in the middle of a line. After all, that's what inline fields are for. In this case, however, it makes no sense at all to change voices in mid-line. Why not? Just treat [V:2] as a

[abcusers] Abcmus, was: Re: abc to MIDI, abc to score

2001-07-23 Thread Henrik Norbeck
Eric Forgeot wrote: Try using Abcmus by Henrik Norbeck (home.swipnet.se/~w-11382/abcmus/ ). It produces nice midi output (it's shareware, but really worth it, yes, I think it's the most reliable) Just don't forget to turn off the playback style feature by clearing the rhythm field. This is

Re: [abcusers] accents and other signs

2001-07-23 Thread John Carson
Dear ABCexperts: I have several questions concerned about the improvement of abcm2ps or abc2ps. Is there anyway we can type words under the staff?(i mean not the lyric). It will prove handy to add this function, as simple as the words above the staff, right? Also I found a bug in

Re: [abcusers] Three-handed job.

2001-07-23 Thread John Chambers
Henrik Norbeck writes: | Phil Taylor wrote: | [snip most of long quote from Apple] | Hence, users achieve a significant productivity increase with the mouse in | spite of their subjective experience. | | One advantage (over mouse commands) of a using more | keyboard commands is that you have a

Re: [abcusers] RE :There is a dumb man... downloading software

2001-07-23 Thread Gianni Cunich
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 21/07/01 at 10.45 Frank Nordberg wrote: Hi everybody, I see you've had a lot of fun while I've been away on vacation ;-) Forgeot Eric wrote (in reply to Gianni): I own one book from O'neill (1001 gems), and I don't think the abc transcriptions

Re: [abcusers] Three-handed job.

2001-07-23 Thread Phil Taylor
Henrik Norbeck writes: | Phil Taylor wrote: | [snip most of long quote from Apple] | Hence, users achieve a significant productivity increase with the mouse in | spite of their subjective experience. | | One advantage (over mouse commands) of a using more | keyboard commands is that you have a

Re: [abcusers] Three-handed job.

2001-07-23 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Phil Taylor wrote: Scuse the anti Gates remarks. My PC has just died horribly, and I'm trying to figure out how to reformat the HD and reinstall Windows. Anybody know the Installing Windows shanty? Linux, linux, linux, linux, Linux, linux, linux, linux ... sorree

Re: [abcusers] RE :There is a dumb man... downloading software

2001-07-23 Thread John Walsh
Gianni Cunich writes: In fact the statement I made about the abc transcriptions was that, in a number of cases, the transcriptions had to be either non faithful to the source or non abc standard compliant (an in some cases in fact they're both). A different statement, and a rather more