[abcusers] OT: Academia

2004-12-02 Thread Don Whitener
At 03:32 PM 12/1/2004, John Chambers wrote: snip After getting some Math and Comp Sci degrees, I hung around in academia for a decade working on a couple of interesting projects. Then I decided to join the Real World. It took several years to learn how to deal with the easily-bruised

Re: [abcusers] Bryan Creer (?)

2004-11-30 Thread Don Whitener
At 06:54 PM 11/30/2004, John Chambers wrote: Phil Taylor writes: | On 30 Nov 2004, at 06:52, Don Whitener wrote: | I have been out of touch lately, so I offer my sincere apologies | should I blunder onto any toes. So far as I can tell, Bryan Creer has | not posted to this group since early

[abcusers] Bryan Creer (?)

2004-11-29 Thread Don Whitener
I have been out of touch lately, so I offer my sincere apologies should I blunder onto any toes. So far as I can tell, Bryan Creer has not posted to this group since early August 2003... Has he dropped out for a while? Best regards, Don To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

[abcusers] RE: AbcIde

2004-01-30 Thread Don Whitener
At 11:03 AM 1/28/2004, Phil wrote: Did you manage to get it to run ? Did everything ELSE work (help files, c) Thanks, Phil Seems like a very nice and useful program Phil, and everything that I have tried appears to work ok. Is there a plan to expand the cataloging function to automatically

[abcusers] Binary for Jef Moine's 'tclabc'?

2003-10-16 Thread Don Whitener
Hello, Does anyone have a Windows binary for Jef Moine's 'tclabc', used in conjunction with his tclabc/tkabc GUI (see http://moinejf.free.fr/ )? I understand that for Windows this compiles to a single DLL. If available, I would very much appreciate a copy; I do not presently have the

[abcusers] Muse

2003-09-25 Thread Don Whitener
Hello, On 1 July 2003, Jack Campin posted the following (as part of a larger post) to the Abcusers list, regarding on-going discussions for developing the new standard for ABC: The kicker is Muse. At some point somebody else is going to revive it, and the job shouldn't be made gratuitously

[abcusers] Abcm2ps Measurefont

2003-09-03 Thread Don Whitener
I see that in the latest abcm2ps release, Jef has added the %%measurefont format parameter... Thank you *very* much Jef! Good man! Regards, Don To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Abcm2Ps Measure Number Font

2003-08-25 Thread Don Whitener
:58 -0500, Don Whitener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been tinkering around a bit with a format file for Abcm2ps... I am looking for a way to change the font size of the measure numbers, and I can't seem to find a way to do this. Can this font size be changed, or am I just overlooking something? You

Re: [abcusers] Abcm2Ps Measure Number Font

2003-08-25 Thread Don Whitener
Thank you John... Neither of these commands seem to have any affect, so I presume they are not valid in Abcm2ps. Don At 12:48 PM 8/25/2003, John Chambers wrote: Don Whitener writes: | I believe that we may be addressing two different things. I am referring | the font for the bar numbers

[abcusers] Another Abcm2ps Question

2003-08-24 Thread Don Whitener
While on the subject of Abcm2ps RTFM, I have done so, and come away with an empty bucket. Is it possible to set the font size for the measure numbers? If so, this continues to elude me, even with a bit of tinkering around with format files... Any guidance would be appreciated. Don To

[abcusers] Abcm2Ps Measure Number Font

2003-08-20 Thread Don Whitener
I've been tinkering around a bit with a format file for Abcm2ps... I am looking for a way to change the font size of the measure numbers, and I can't seem to find a way to do this. Can this font size be changed, or am I just overlooking something? Also, while I'm asking, is there a way to

Solfa (Was: [abcusers] a very peculiar use of word alignment

2003-07-23 Thread Don Whitener
My apologies for being just a bit off topic, but I think I sense some potential help at hand here on my next upcoming project. At 04:48 AM 7/23/2003, Jack Campin wrote: Just for laughs, I tried to see if I could do parallel solfa lines in BarFly using the w: construct, with the solfa symbols

Re: Solfa (Was: [abcusers] a very peculiar use of word alignment

2003-07-23 Thread Don Whitener
Thank you Jack, I'll try to locate a copy of the John Curwen reference through Inter-Library Loan. The local library does not have it, but it should be obtainable, now that I know exactly what to look for. The local library does have a copy of the 20-volume version of New Grove Dictionary of

Re: [abcusers] New standard(s)

2003-07-18 Thread Don Whitener
In my view of things, removing the C:Composer field steps just over the line in being too radical :0( I really like to see this header just under the title, where it doesn't get lost. Retaining the identity of the composer is paramount in importance to knowing the name of the tune, and thus

RE: [abcusers] Free notation program for Windows - let's write it ...

2003-07-05 Thread Don Whitener
Wil, I checked your web site, and no mention is made of having tested or running Skink under Windows XP. I would imagine that you have had some feedback by now regarding the capability of Skink with Win XP Pro, and could you comment on this, please. As a side, someone told me that XP has a

Re: [abcusers] Free notation program for Windows - let's write it ...

2003-07-05 Thread Don Whitener
/news/jre.asp It would seem that peaceful co-existence of VM and JRE would be the prudent route. Regards, Don At 07:01 AM 7/5/2003, Steve Mansfield wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bert Van Vreckem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Don Whitener wrote: As a side, someone told me that XP has a built

Re: [abcusers] Lost in abcm2ps

2002-11-18 Thread Don Whitener
I would agree with your general advice. But I would add that I, out of ignorance, put Ghostscript in a sub-folder other than the default folder and not at the root level. I changed nothing in the configuration files, and everything seems to work just fine. Using Windows 98SE at the moment.

Re: [abcusers] Jcabc2ps for MSWIN (new version from the corrected sources)

2002-10-01 Thread Don Whitener
Thanks Eric... Looking forward to getting back home. Don Quoting Forgeot Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, strange enough I didn't get any warning this time when I compiled (using mingw), I may have done something wrong the last time (maybe by adding and removing some flags for cygwin, then

Jcabc2ps (Was Re: [abcusers] sourceforge homepage)

2002-09-23 Thread Don Whitener
I've been meaning to ask, and this reminds me... Is there a compiled for Windows (32-bit) version of jcabc2ps available anywhere? I have searched, but all I can find is source code. Unfortunately, I haven't the tools at the moment to handle it. Don At 08:14 AM 9/23/02, John Chambers wrote:

Re: [abcusers] John Atchley

2002-09-11 Thread Don Whitener
Belay that... I found his address. At 02:44 PM 9/11/02, I wrote: Can someone tell me how to contact John Atchley of jaaabc2ps fame? I seem to have lost him :-) Don To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Only a Test

2002-08-28 Thread Don Whitener
Sorry... Trying to sort something out. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Re: ABaCusMusic Web Site?

2002-07-24 Thread Don Whitener
Yes, it is... All of Monday and Tuesday it appeared to be lost in the ether At 03:21 AM 7/24/02, Bryan Creer wrote: I just tried it and it seems to be available at the moment. AOL have been causing me a lot of grief and I will be taking my custom elsewhere soon. The new abc

[abcusers] New Program?

2002-06-06 Thread Don Whitener
Brian, At 05:58 PM 5/24/02, Bryan Creer posted: Snip... On the other hand, the editor/player/printer programme I am currently working on Snip... Are you *actively* pursuing development of a new program, and, if so, is there a projected release date? Just curious... You do indeed do good work

Re: [abcusers] Announce: new version of Five Line Skink

2002-06-05 Thread Don Whitener
Absolutely! That would be neat! Jaabc2ps is my converter of choice. It is the only one that I know of that will produce tin whistle tablature, a feature that I find most useful at times. It will do this for any key of whistle, independent of the key of the tune, if desired. Regards, Don

Re: [abcusers] re re : slurs and ties

2002-05-30 Thread Don Whitener
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'.

Re: [abcusers] re : re: what does that means ?? slurs and ties

2002-05-28 Thread Don Whitener
I am not a programmer, but I have been a musician for many years, and I am just starting to use the 'magic' of ABC. I am just beginning to really appreciate the effort that has gone into its development, and what a wonderful tool it is. I promised myself that I would stay out of this, but...

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-05-02 Thread Don Whitener
Not exactly on topic, but anyway: At 05:13 PM 5/2/02, John Walsh wrote: you could say that you need a second space to end the beam, but this works better for parsers than human readers---the difference between one and two spaces is notoriously hard to spot. (Which pair of words is

Re: [abcusers] chords for O'Neill?

2002-03-05 Thread Don Whitener
At 02:23 PM 3/5/02, Frank Nordberg wrote: For the benefit of recent subscribers to abcusers, here's a short outline of the history of the O'Neill projects: A group of people lead (eventually) by John Chambers made a joint effort to transcribe O'Neill's Music of Ireland (O'Neill's 1850) While

Re: [abcusers] chords for O'Neill?

2002-03-05 Thread Don Whitener
Thank you John It just didn't occur to me to go to the parent directory of abc I see now a bit better how your site is organized At 08:02 PM 3/5/02, John Chambers wrote: Don wrote: | Am I to gather from the above quote that there is a collection of ABC files | for the O'Neill project(s) at

[abcusers] GUI for jaabc2ps

2002-02-17 Thread Don Whitener
Does anyone know of a Windows GUI for John Atchley's jaabc2ps program? My initial impression is that this is a very well done program, and the whistle tablature feature fills a notable void in the 'literature'. Thank you John... I would do so directly, but I can't seem to find an address for