[abcusers] *portable* representation of a very simple 3-part piece?

2004-01-13 Thread Jack Campin
A recent discussion of mediaeval harmony on rec.music.early involved Margo Schulter posting a few examples in a roll-your-own ASCII notation, which led to some confused responses about proportional fonts. So, it seemed to me that ABC ought to fix that; fixed-width fonts are useful for ABC but not

[abcusers] is BarFly going to interwork with GarageBand?

2004-01-13 Thread Jack Campin
I read about this on the latest TidBITS Digest. Some interesting possibilities here? http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760

Re: [abcusers] *portable* representation of a very simple 3-part piece?

2004-01-13 Thread Jon Freeman
From: Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Margo replied as follows: --- begin quote --- Hello, there, and I'm using abc2ps, which gave curious results with the above file, but does part of what I'm going after with %%scale .92 %%maxshrink .8 X:2 T: He Diex! quant verrai T: Adam de la Halle

Re: [abcusers] is BarFly going to interwork with GarageBand?

2004-01-13 Thread Phil Taylor
On 13 Jan 2004, at 10:32, Jack Campin wrote: I read about this on the latest TidBITS Digest. Some interesting possibilities here? http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ GB looks to me like a poor man's CuBase, i.e. it deals primarily with audio tracks. CuBase can also include midi tracks, and

Re: [abcusers] *portable* representation of a very simple 3-part piece?

2004-01-13 Thread Phil Taylor
On 13 Jan 2004, at 10:30, Jack Campin wrote: big snip If we're going to use ABC as an alternative to notations like Margo's original one on Usenet music forums, we need to do better than this. Can anybody come up with a version of the above piece which (a) displays and plays on BarFly (perhaps

Re: [abcusers] *portable* representation of a very simple 3-part piece?

2004-01-13 Thread Alice Corbin
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:30:21AM +, Jack Campin wrote: ...a request for a good portable way to represent rondeaux in abc... I struggled with stuffing rondeaux into the abc format for quite a while. The repeats are too odd to use modern |:, :| markings, and the repeated sections are too

Re: [abcusers] is BarFly going to interwork with GarageBand?

2004-01-13 Thread Tom Keays
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Phil Taylor wrote: http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ If that's the case I don't see a lot of scope for interworking with BarFly. I got to looking on the Apple web site and found this item for a piano keyboard. Thinking back to the rather interesting recent

[abcusers] unfolding og repeats

2004-01-13 Thread Atte André Jensen
Hi I asked this question some time back but would like to know what the situation is right now: Is there any (pref. linux-based, commandline and open-source) software outthere that will unfold repeats? -- peace, love harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your

Re: [abcusers] unfolding og repeats

2004-01-13 Thread Laura Conrad
Atte == Atte Andr Atte writes: Atte Is there any (pref. linux-based, commandline and open-source) Atte software outthere that will unfold repeats? Abc2midi does it, so I guess if you can run abc2midi and then midi2abc, you have abc with the repeats unfolded. Probably not the answer