It is just simply
incorrect to not make the normal distinction between ties and
slurs in any
form of musical notation (which does include ABC), and, worst of
all,
ultimately confusing to users if improper usage is allowed. Ties
and slurs
are not the same thing, nor are they intended to be,
Frank Nordberg wrote:
I've been trying to find a piece of music where FF2 actually would make
sense. In the end I had to write one myself.
Except for the V: header fields - which are idiomatic for BarFly - this
should be pretty straight forward ABC. There are a few nasty little
details here,
Forgeot=20Eric?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| It is just simply
| incorrect to not make the normal distinction between ties and
| slurs in any
| form of musical notation (which does include ABC), and, worst of
| all,
| ultimately confusing to users if improper usage is allowed. ...
| I don't
John == John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John (Hey. Laura; does LilyPond distinguish all these? Just curious.)
Yes:
Tie:
a ~ a
slur:
a () a
phrasing slur:
a \(\) a
The documentation says:
Phil Taylor wrote:
Ooh that's dirty! Ties across metre changes, across into and out of
broken rhythm pairs, broken rhythms used as part of triplets...
Well, the general idea was to cover as many problems with the , ties,
slurs and triplet brackets as possible. And then I just threw in the
Frank asked I really wonder what the results from other abc applications
are.
Well, (deep breath) Muse didn't like it a lot.
It generates a bug report saying ABC ties don't match Muse ties. Please
report this bug to me. That is one of quite a learge number of messages in
Muse that are never
I'd like to make a Brazilian Portuguese translation of the ABC Standards
v1.6 and v1.7.6 (Draft Revised) to post in a site. Should I request
someone a licence or is it free to do so?
The original documents at the ABC Home Page carry no copyright message
about this. Notwithstanding their being
At 12:36 PM 5/30/02, John Chambers wrote:
Snip...
In fact, we can't confuse people; they are already confused.
With all respect, it serves no one to contribute to this confusion by
treating things the same that are in all respects different, that is,
different in the 'language of music'.
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 16:11, Frank Nordberg wrote:
I really wonder what the results from other abc applications are.
For what it's worth, abcm2ps 2.10.9 (February 10, 2002) didn't have any
problem with it apart from the global accidentals, which it gave one
warning about (Unknown token in key
