in the
MP3 using special »tags«. I told him that if he adds variable speed
control to the thing I'll buy one the first day it is out :^) We're
stuck with recorded music for dance classes and I should greatly enjoy
not having to haul all those CDs to class.
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along.
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the tunes from the RSCDS dance books.
Some of the tunes have a second voice every so often (say, in four
bars out of twenty-four), and the »« feature saves me a lot of typing
in [V:2] bits that are mostly empty.
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I
). In this case you will have to negotiate with that rather
than the original composers/arrangers.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterwards
of nothing but »XY« and »XY«, that insisting that it is just for
hornpipes strikes me as very impractical indeed. Look at, say, any
volume of Kerr's Collection to see that »« (and »«) is just what the
doctor ordered.
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James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have taken the view that '' is a function to be used only in a
very specific setting and trying to generalize it for other uses is
courting trouble.
So, in abc2midi, ;+ is intended for hornpipes only? What about
strathspeys?
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To
if she doesn't have her manual handy.
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is not at all bad (and it even
comes in a sane encoding, compared to the rest of CM). Recent
distributions of X11 contain a mostly-free set of fonts by BH called
»Lucidux« which includes a rather nice monospaced variety.
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does frivolously. If he doesn't enjoy your event,
he has ways of making you sorry you summoned him.
Of course this doesn't apply to practising the tune; the Fairy King
likes his music played properly and looks benevolently on those who
apply the necessary diligence ...
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between the three that they don't know about.
This will be unnecessarily confusing.
The word is `KISS'.
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I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick than do GUI programming
in Java
feature. I think of the translation of
allegro into beats per minute as an extension of this.
I must say I quite like the idea of `stress programs' as exemplified by
BarFly. They are a nice illustration of my claim that ABC notation and
presentation details are best kept separate.
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experience still ahead of you. I wish
you well; may your epiphany not be too painful when it comes. As it
will, eventually.
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What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance
Simon Wascher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is that there are situations where it is necessary to have
part of the tempo indicator displayed and parts not.
Example:
Q:1/4=120 - Allegro % displaying Allegro and playing 1/4=120
In your proposal how can this be done ?
of getting this wrong look at
HTML after Netscape and Microsoft were through with it. I would hate to
see the same thing happen to ABC.
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I think there is a world market for about five computers
Simon Wascher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I looked into my files, and found that the abc files I
transcribed are a pile of about 3 MB (plain ASCII). Assuming that other
peoples who are listed as large collections at the abc homepage also
have big collections besides what is in the net right
Simon Wascher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is not trivial to
tell where music ends and side information beginns. And as a transcriber
of historical sources it is often very important to cover some side
information within the exchangeable file, not just in the printed output
(for file
explicit metronome speed for playback, and why this would be preferable
to letting users set their own playback speeds `ad hoc', external to the
ABC representation, with the ABC-provided speed as a (reasonable) default.
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the `Q:' line for every single one, which I find quite appealing.
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-- Thomas J. Watson, CEO, IBM Corporation, 1947
there is nothing left to take away (and it still does what it is
supposed to do). We don't need special syntax for every single ABC
header field when there is a general pattern that we can apply, like the
`key=value' convention outlined above.
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of the `original' could be preserved in a header
line.
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time ago would probably be a starting point).
The ABC language is fragmented enough as it is. We should work towards
simplifying and standardizing things rather than inventing new
complications.
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I think that's
to eliminate this bad notation entirely. A lot of Germans
and Scandinavians would thank us.
Well, I don't think the ABC user community is quite ready yet to put
that kind of pressure on the music scene at large ... :^)
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Mac users have BarFly to begin with. I could have coded the
macro preprocessor in C (no Pascal, please ...) but it would have taken
me a lot longer than the two hours or so that I have spent on it so far.
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'.
Maybe we can get abc2midi to process the Goldberg Variations?
We could try ...
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thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life -- so
beer when I'm travelling :^)
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.
And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take
sheet music is
comparing apples to oranges.
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I sometimes wonder if Microsoft keeps beating this application-OS-lovefest
drum because they really have no idea how to write an OS API, so they just do
whatever
.
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online and have
your system set up correctly `apt-get install abc2ps' is all you're
going to have to say to obtain the current version), and the package is
probably not much use to others.
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distribution, or have you compiled your own source code? I maintain the
Debian abc2ps package and would be interested in working with you to
get any bugs in that package ironed out.
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Portability is for people
(and presumably ignored by most other software, though
players might display it as the section is played).
I'm with you on this, John (SCD musicians unite!). Please could the P:
purists suggest another way of putting tune titles in a medley if they
don't want us to use P:.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Richard L Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is anyone aware of any abc collections of tunes used for
International Folk Dancing?
John Chambers has a fair amount of stuff on his site but you have to
piece it together for yourself.
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onsequence of this is to support a »loose mode« as well as a
»picky mode«. You use loose mode for stuff that comes in from
elsewhere that doesn't pass in picky mode, and picky mode for stuff
that you are going to send out that you want to be 100% conforming to
the standard (or whatever).
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wants to adopt this feel free -- it's only a 15-minute hack after all.
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