James Allwright wrote (regarding file-global header fields like R: and M:)
This is not a widely implemented feature of the abc standard and I
would personally like it to become deprecated. My reasoning is that
if you have global fields, you can't treat a single abc tune as
something that can be
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jack Campin wrote:
I am about to release a CD-ROM with a large number of very carefully
edited and documented tunes linked off a hypertext commentary (see
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/). This is the work which all the
ABC on my website is spinoffs from. I would
This is NOT directly ABC related, so you might call it Spam. If so, I
apologise. I will try not to do it often!
Taking some of Laura's pleas to heart I want to experiment with Open Source.
I'm not prepared to risk the source code of Muse in this way at present, but
I am working on another
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Jack Campin wrote:
+ in every printed score I own, the tempo text, expression text, and
+ guitar chords are distinguishable from one another by their typeface
+ alone.
But they aren't *identifiable* by their typeface alone - no two publishers
use the same set of
One or two abc files I have downloaded recently have a lower case m: field,
as in m: Tn = (3n/o/n/
Can you tell me what this means please?
Ray Davies
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At 03:18 PM 11-28-2001 +, Laurie Griffiths you wrote:
This is NOT directly ABC related, so you might call it Spam. If so, I
apologise. I will try not to do it often!
Taking some of Laura's pleas to heart I want to experiment with Open Source.
I'm not prepared to risk the source code of
Laurie == Laurie Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Laurie The question is, on what terms should the source be opened? Here is what I
Laurie have in mind.
You don't say anything about the source being available to anyone.
This is what makes an open source project open source. If you
I would like to propose the following. I will give the syntax first as
examples with explanations and then some more formal stuff to try to
eliminate ambiguities and assist implementation.
Text to the right of and including -- is a meta-comment, that is to say it
is part of this discussion and
One or two abc files I have downloaded recently have a lower case m: field,
as in m: Tn = (3n/o/n/
Can you tell me what this means please?
It's a BarFly macro. What it does is to define how the T symbol gets played.
In this case, what it means is that the symbol Tc would cause the note to be
Apologies to Buddha and Laura for abusing the term open source. I hadn't
meant to. I am discussing things with them off-list.
Laurie
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Laurie writes:
| I would like to propose the following. ...
...
| Q:1/4=120 -- as before
| -- in fact ALL currently legal Q: lines are still legal and have exactly the
| same meaning as before.
...
| Q:120=Allegro -- the popular example. Same idea
One thing I didn't see in the examples is
Laurie wrote:
I would like to propose the following.
[suggestions I have hardly any problems with, except...]
Q:C2=120 -- as before
Do we really need this? Did it ever catch on? (I think you suggest
deprecating it, I reckon something more drastic might be in order).
Q:120=Allegro -- the
Jack said ...Your suggestions have exactly the expressive power I was
asking for, with one minor omission: the label dotted minim = minim you
get in staff notation when the metre changes
Q:1/2 -- sets the beat to minim
abc abc
Q:3/2 -- sets the beat to dotted minim which therefore equals the
John Chambers wrote:
One thing I didn't see in the examples is whether combining these
would be legal, as in:
Q:1/4=120=Allegro
It seems that this should obviously be allowed. Then there's the
question about the syntax that some programs accept now:
It wasn't, but I agree it should be.
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