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

2002-05-01 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: Out of curiousity: Are there any abc programs currently that will accept something like ^ffGmG and do the right thing with it? I know that abc2ps won't; it simply ignores all but the first chord symbol. This should be fixed, of course, but today it doesn't work in

[abcusers] ADV:Harvest lots of Target Email address quickly

2002-05-01 Thread Phil Headford
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Re: [abcusers] jcabc2ps

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 11:31 schrieb Ulf: Writing to a file can be made with jcabc2ps bach.abc bach.ps I suppose this is not what we expected? Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html I am sorry! I have found it! Forget this

Re: [abcusers] jcabc2ps

2002-05-01 Thread John Chambers
| Hi, | | I downloaded the following file: | | http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/src/jcabc2ps-20020422-src.tar.gz | | supposing that this is the latest release, then unpacked it and then ran=20 | make which seems to work. | | =3D=3D=3D=3D | | There is a README file saying that there will be

Re: [abcusers] jcabc2ps

2002-05-01 Thread John Chambers
| Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 11:31 schrieb Ulf: | Writing to a file can be made with | | jcabc2ps bach.abc bach.ps | | =3D=3D=3D=3D | | I suppose this is not what we expected? | | Ulf | To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: | http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html | | I am

Re: [abcusers] jcabc2ps

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 15:38 schrieb John Chambers: One problem with Michael's documentation is that the command line options were never fully documented in one place. I should fix this. I did start writing this, but it's not complete. Maybe I'll try to find time today to work on

Re: abc's biggest problem (was: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse)

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 15:55 schrieb Atte Andre Jensen: Really? I think abc's biggest shortcomming is the fundamental of only being able to put a chord where there is a melody-note. I consider this a major bummer, and guess everybody (except me) writes stuff like | A AmC4 | Not me, I

Re: [abcusers] Tunes with chords

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
Am Montag, 29. April 2002 19:10 schrieb Phil Taylor: Jack Campin wrote: Is this odd enough in the slurs department? The BarFly documentation doesn't say how you'd prefer to write the -3 chords so I've left them as they are in the book. -3 chords are no problem. At the moment, continued

Re: abc's biggest problem (was: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse)

2002-05-01 Thread Wil Macaulay
if your software supports non-printing rests (BarFly, Skink) you can write | AC4 Amx | wil Ulf wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 15:55 schrieb Atte Andre Jensen: Really? I think abc's biggest shortcomming is the fundamental of only being able to put a chord where there is a melody-note. I

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

2002-05-01 Thread Buddha Buck
At 06:35 PM 05-01-2002 +, John Chambers you wrote: | On the other hand, I still think that the lack of a way to represent | dynamics and certain other commonly-used symbols is ABC's biggest | handicap. We could get into a real debate over what's the most serious handicap in ABC. My vote

Re: [abcusers] The Girl From Ipanema

2002-05-01 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Ulf wrote: Hi, I'm so proud of this one, I simply have to give it away, believe me: it was not easy to make... Hey, great! I did find room for improvements IMHO, though: 1) Changed the formatting arround so the 1st and 2nd ending is together on one line + try to keep 4

Re: abc's biggest problem (was: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-pointabuse)

2002-05-01 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Ulf wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 15:55 schrieb Atte Andre Jensen: snipand guess everybody (except me) writes stuff like | A AmC4 | Not me, I write | C A- Cdim A- Dm7 A- G9 A- | C6 A2 z2 | Which is, by the way, also ugly... True :-) -- l8er Atte To

Re: abc's biggest problem (was: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse)

2002-05-01 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Wil Macaulay wrote: if your software supports non-printing rests (BarFly, Skink) you can write | AC4 Amx | Hey, that's pretty clever! Although is looks broken (5 notes to a 4/4 bar). And I was pretty amazed the abc2midi actually played it fine (pretty hip harmonization

Re: [abcusers] Re: abc's biggest problem

2002-05-01 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jack Campin wrote: I think abc's biggest shortcomming is the fundamental of only being able to put a chord where there is a melody-note. I consider this a major bummer, and guess everybody (except me) writes stuff like | A AmC4 | Not me, I write | C A- Cdim

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

2002-05-01 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Buddha Buck wrote: At 06:35 PM 05-01-2002 +, John Chambers you wrote: It's interesting... in response to Jeff's message, I've seen lots of people comments on his choice for the title of ABC's biggest handicap, but no comments on his proposal to fix his particular

[abcusers] Re: abc's biggest problem

2002-05-01 Thread Jack Campin
I think abc's biggest shortcomming is the fundamental of only being able to put a chord where there is a melody-note. I consider this a major bummer, and guess everybody (except me) writes stuff like | A AmC4 | if your software supports non-printing rests (BarFly, Skink) you can write |

[abcusers] Jim Vint Breathnach

2002-05-01 Thread Christian M. Cepel
Hi all. Can anyone tell me if Jim Vint's on this list? And. If he is, and you're him (lovely grammar, I know..)... Jim.. would you consider licensing Breathnach, and what would the terms be? We're still doing our abc software engineering project for software engineering class, and we've not the

Re: abc's biggest problem (was: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse)

2002-05-01 Thread John Chambers
Atte writes: | On Wed, 1 May 2002, Wil Macaulay wrote: | | if your software supports non-printing rests (BarFly, Skink) you can write | | | AC4 Amx | | | Hey, that's pretty clever! Although is looks broken (5 notes to a 4/4 | bar). And I was pretty amazed the abc2midi actually played it fine

Re: [abcusers] Re: abc's biggest problem

2002-05-01 Thread Phil Taylor
Jack Campin wrote: In Barfly, x doesn't print but does play, like a z. So that example is in 5/4 with a rest and chord change on the 5th beat. Neither does the same thing using the y non-printing non-playing space work. Try lining it up with a parallel voice containing four crotchets and see

Re: [abcusers] The Girl From Ipanema

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 23:25 schrieb Atte Andre Jensen: On Wed, 1 May 2002, Ulf wrote: Hi, I'm so proud of this one, I simply have to give it away, believe me: it was not easy to make... Hey, great! I did find room for improvements IMHO, though: 1) Changed the formatting arround so