Re: [abcusers] Multivoice in ABC 2.0

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Campin
There's nowhere in the tune body where you can place a single field and have it apply to all voices. There is nowhere in any ABC spec that explicitly allows that yet, but it is common for medleys to be made up of tunes by different composers or from different sources, so the informational

Re: [abcusers] Keyboard layout

2003-11-18 Thread Jack Campin
Meanwhile, for most tunes I can type abc nearly as fast as I can play it. It's seems unlikely that any clever keyboard mapping could do much better. Having the notes all on the left hand is probably much of this. I'd never thought about that. For me that makes it more difficult - while

Re: [abcusers] Multivoice in ABC 2.0

2003-11-18 Thread John Chambers
Jack Campin writes: | There's nowhere in the tune body where you can place a single | field and have it apply to all voices. | | There is nowhere in any ABC spec that explicitly allows that yet, | but it is common for medleys to be made up of tunes by different | composers or from different

Re: [abcusers] Keyboard layout

2003-11-18 Thread John Chambers
Jack Campin writes: | Meanwhile, for most tunes I can type abc nearly as fast as | I can play it. It's seems unlikely that any clever keyboard | mapping could do much better. Having the notes all on the | left hand is probably much of this. | | I'd never thought about that. For me that

Re: [abcusers] Keyboard layout

2003-11-18 Thread Randall J Elzinga
Hello Everybody, Thanks for your input on keyboard layout. I see that I differ from other abc users in that I have opted to relearn how to type on the Dvorak keyboard, and that I avoid the usage of the mouse if at all possible. Keyboard shortcuts all the way, man. The Dvorak keyboard