Re: [abcusers] Drum notation

2003-06-24 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, janus meuris wrote: But I recently ran into a problem, and I found no cure for it in any doc I found : I need to write drum partitions (notes,clefs,-...) , and found nothing to do it. I found out (due to the Noteedit discussions) that Noteedit has the features to do

[abcusers] Re: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread Georg Hajdu
Hello Phil, As a composer and computer programmer I'm currently working on a real-time music notation system for networked music performances that can also display (microtonal) scores (see http://www.quintet.net), Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Exit3.jpg (JPEG/prvw) (00057D27) OK. The jpeg

Re: [abcusers] Re: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Georg Hajdu wrote: The parsing of xml files seems more difficult, XML is very easy to parse: you can make use of several free off-the-shelf parsers that either create a complete document tree (DOM standard) or generate parser events (SAX standard). Just have a look at

[abcusers] Fwd: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread I. Oppenheim
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:58:14 +0100 From: Phil Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re: abc and microtonality I. Oppenheim wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Georg Hajdu wrote: The parsing of xml files seems more

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Phil Taylor wrote: That is not a good idea. Several of these letters (THLMPSO?) have already a predefined meaning. It would be better to leave these letters free. Let me make myself more clear. I meant to say that it should be up to the end user to bind a symbol to the

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread Laura Conrad
Irwin == I Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Irwin On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Phil Taylor wrote: That is not a good idea. Several of these letters (THLMPSO?) have already a predefined meaning. It would be better to leave these letters free. Irwin Let me make myself more

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Laura Conrad wrote: Do you really think that all the ABC that assumes that H means fermata should suddenly stop working. No! Things that are de facto standard should not be changed. On the other hand, I do not think it is wise to add new predefinitions to the existing

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Let me make myself more clear. I meant to say that it should be up to the end user to bind a symbol to the free letters H-Z if he so desires, and that any such binding should not be predefined let alone hardwired by the

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread John Chambers
Irwin Oppenheim writes: | On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Phil Taylor wrote: | and sensible programs don't need the exclamation | marks in symbol definitions. | | By now they are part of the de facto ABC standard, so | we have to stick to them. Not really. As Phil points out, they really aren't

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps/PostScript questions

2003-06-24 Thread Calum Galleitch
On Monday 23 June 2003 5:06 pm, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: - in the header: % -- draw any indication %%postscript /displaycustom { % usage: len x y displaycustom %%postscriptexch -9 add exch 2 copy %%postscriptM 0 10 rmoveto /Times-Roman 16 selectfont

[abcusers] Re: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread DavBarnert
Bernard Hill wrote- Surely by the standard (www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/abc-draft.txt) H *is* predefined as fermata. But that's not the standard. That's the draft of the elusive next standard. Version 1.6 is still the operational standard and it says: | New notation | |

Re: [abcusers] Re: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bernard Hill wrote- Surely by the standard (www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/abc-draft.txt) H *is* predefined as fermata. But that's not the standard. That's the draft of the elusive next standard. I was advised by Chris Walshaw himself

Re: [abcusers] Re: abc and microtonality

2003-06-24 Thread DavBarnert
Bernard Hill wrote: I was advised by Chris Walshaw himself that that is the current standard and has replaced the one on the standard web site. Cool. Thanks. First I'd heard. No mention of it on Chris's web site (still refers to it as draft and 1.6 as current). Does everyone know about this?

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher Myers
Jean-Francois, I just got around to trying out your suggestion below for enclosing a note in parentheses: Yes, you may use annotations: ()A And it doesn't work. Instead of getting a note in parentheses, what I get is a guitar chord that looks like this: ( ) The program does not