Re: [abcusers] jaabc2ps update

2001-01-01 Thread John Atchley
we liked the effect, a sort of Scots-traditional-meets-Steve-Reich. The problem with uneven bar counts in jaabc2ps actually causes a program crash -- not much of an effect to like ;-) -- John Atchley -- http://www.guitarnut.com http://www.guitarnuts.com

[abcusers] jaabc2ps update

2000-12-14 Thread John Atchley
I still haven't succeeded in FTPing the jaabc2ps RPMs to the sourceforge site so I put them on my website instead. I also updated the dos/windoze zip files there. The URL is http://www.guitarnut.com/abc/index.html -- John Atchley -- http://www.guitarnut.com

Re: [abcusers] Re: contributing packages on sourceforge

2000-12-06 Thread John Atchley
this? -- John Atchley -- http://www.guitarnut.com http://www.guitarnuts.com So many guitars, so little time... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] accidentals in ()

2000-11-16 Thread John Atchley
n the source. Again, doing it this way leaves it up to the person who will be printing, and presumably playing from, the score. So, if you don't like helper accidentals and I do, we can each have our cake and eat it too. -- John Atchley -- http://ww

Re: [abcusers] accidentals in ()

2000-11-16 Thread John Atchley
dental in the source is a little more involved, but not much -- I've already done it in jaabc2ps. -- John Atchley -- http://www.guitarnut.com http://www.guitarnuts.com So many guitars, so little time... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread John Atchley
of 32 possible voices, one is "%%NoDecos v yes|no" to suppress decorations for that voice, the other is "%%DecosBelowSt v yes/no" to print decorations under the staff (v is the voice number in both cases). -- John Atchley -- http://ww

Re: [abcusers] V: field

2000-11-14 Thread John Atchley
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Phil Taylor wrote: John Atchley wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Phil Taylor wrote: as an option. (It's not difficult to program; you just have to treat a space following the voice number as equivalent to a line end.) Doing so would blow all the abc with V:1 clef=bass

Re: [abcusers] use of object to embed text files

2000-11-04 Thread John Atchley
pe of text/vnd and I haven't configured Netscape to deal with that) and wanted to download the file instead of displaying it. Not having netscape configured to recognize text/vnd might be why none of the object examples worked, come to think of it. -- John Atchley ---

Re: [abcusers] use of object to embed text files

2000-11-03 Thread John Atchley
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, John Henckel wrote: Sigh, that last post got messed up in route. To see what I meant look at http://www.formulus.com/hymns/test1.html Using Netscape 4.7 on linux I get a message "since iframe failed, click here" the "click here" is a page displaying the abc as if it

RE: [abcusers] Update to jaabc2ps

2000-10-31 Thread John Atchley
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Re: [abcusers] Questions about abcm2ps

2000-10-31 Thread John Atchley
descend from abcm2ps ;-) Also, I'll be moving the distribution files to source forge once I figure out how to get sourceforge to let me do so. -- John Atchley -- So many guitars, so little time... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

RE: [abcusers] Update to jaabc2ps

2000-10-26 Thread John Atchley
ion though. Next time I upload the code FreeMetStyle 4 will cause it to output nothing. It'll be up to the user to use that option intelligently, though ;-) John Atchley To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

RE: [abcusers] free Finale

2000-10-26 Thread John Atchley
ical media the files are stored on can display them. John Atchley To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Update to jaabc2ps

2000-10-25 Thread John Atchley
; "free" over "meter," or "fm." I have no formal music training -- if there is something else that really should be displayed let me know and I'll add an option for it. Enjoy, John Atchley To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

RE: [abcusers] Is there a Tex style backslash character fornon-breaking space?

2000-10-18 Thread John Atchley
Isn't the tilde (~) a "combining" space? Abc2ps treats it that way and I'm pretty sure it's described in the draft standard. I use "w: 1.~First..." all the time to put the "1." and the first word of the line together on the first note with a space between t

RE: [abcusers] I finally uploaded jaabc2ps

2000-10-16 Thread John Atchley
itional formatting characters. Also, any midi player software that uses the 1.7.3-described leading characters to distinguish simple text from chords will ignore all of this just as it should. John Atchley To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

RE: [abcusers] I finally uploaded jaabc2ps

2000-10-16 Thread John Atchley
oping missile and avionics software again before I become a microsuck vegetable! ;-) John Atchley To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

RE: [abcusers] A4/letter in abc2ps

2000-10-14 Thread John Atchley
it by changing something in ghostscript's defaults, not in abc2ps. Just brought up the ghostscript viewer and I think what I changed was in the "media..." menu, selecting the correct paper size there. HTH, John Atchley To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullo

RE: [abcusers] multible chord lines

2000-10-14 Thread John Atchley
I'm hoping to find time to finish documenting this and get it on my website this weekend. John Atchley On Friday, October 13, 2000 8:11 AM, James Allwright [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -- From: James Allwright[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000

RE: [abcusers] abc2abc error

2000-10-01 Thread John Atchley
Try changing the M: field to 4/4 ;-) On Sunday, October 01, 2000 12:23 PM, Atte Andre Jensen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -- From: Atte Andre Jensen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 12:22:30 PM To: ABC users mailinglist Subject:

RE: [abcusers] Distributing DLLs

2000-09-28 Thread John Atchley
On Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:11 AM, Laurie Griffiths [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: John Atchley said "...Finally, it really is necessary to deliver DLLs with most windows applications" DLLs yes, but Windows System DLLs? (But this is getting off topic). Laurie Depen

RE: [abcusers] Distributing DLLs

2000-09-27 Thread John Atchley
manually. For some of the files, if they aren't registered, they might as well not be present! Some of the files may be in use by windows and it requires a good setup utility (or a much more savvy than average user) to copy over the new files in that case. John Atchley On Wednesday

RE: [abcusers] Software for extracting chords

2000-09-22 Thread John Atchley
hehe On Friday, September 22, 2000 11:40 AM, Atte Andre Jensen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, John Atchley wrote: snip As for notating when the guitarist should shut up, either "tacet" or a quarter-rest symbol printed on the chord line works for me.