Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread John Chambers
Atte wrote: | On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, John Chambers wrote: | Atte wrote: | | !fine! exclamation-point abuse | | This reminds me: There has been a bit of discussion of this syntax | off and on over the years. Some people have implemented it. Could | people post information on which abc

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse - Standard...

2002-04-30 Thread Christian M. Cepel
I fail to see why discussion of new additions/changes to the standard can abound for an extended period of time, and ultimately be beaten into astalemate. I don't quite know what the 'Standard Version Naming Scheme' for abc is, but I thought the use of a #.# allowed small changes from say, 1.6

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
Phil, I seem to recall that you had an alternate proposal - can you resurrect it? I'm almost at the point of implementing this in Skink, so it would be useful to have the proposals side-by-side. wil Phil Taylor wrote: John Chambers wrote: Atte wrote: | On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, John Chambers

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread John Chambers
Phil Taylor wrote: | John Chambers wrote: | Atte wrote: | | On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, John Chambers wrote: | | Atte wrote: | | | !fine! exclamation-point abuse | | abcm2ps | That's the only reply that I've seen. Is this the only abc program | that understands the !foo! annotation syntax?

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: (about the !foo! construct) Hmm ... I'd forgotten who didn't like it, of course. The general feature does seem to be inherently useful, so I'd suppose that the objection is to the particular syntax. The other one I've seen is the one that uses double quotes and

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
One thing about macroes, however, is that you don't _have_ to use them; you can fully expand the macro in the source if you want to for some reason. Your proposal doesn't fit that need, because if I _want_ to write fff (for fortissimo) in the tune, I can't distinguish it from three f notes unless

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread Phil Taylor
One thing about macroes, however, is that you don't _have_ to use them; you can fully expand the macro in the source if you want to for some reason. Your proposal doesn't fit that need, because if I _want_ to write fff (for fortissimo) in the tune, I can't distinguish it from three f notes unless

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread John Chambers
| One thing about macroes, however, is that you don't _have_ to use them; | you can fully expand the macro in the source if you want to for some reason. | Your proposal doesn't fit that need, because if I _want_ to write | fff (for fortissimo) in the tune, I can't distinguish it from three f

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread John Chambers
Phil Taylor writes: | One thing about macroes, however, is that you don't _have_ to use them; | you can fully expand the macro in the source if you want to for some reason. | Your proposal doesn't fit that need, because if I _want_ to write | fff (for fortissimo) in the tune, I can't distinguish

[abcusers] Latest ABC tune search

2002-04-30 Thread John Chambers
My ABC search bot just finished a rather long run. I ran my little perl program that knows how to talk to google.com, and it asked for the first 1000 matches for ABC tune. Google returned about 700 matches, and when added to the original 185 sites, the result took about two weeks to