Re: [abcusers] modes (again)

2002-06-27 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 17:59, Forgeot Eric wrote: | ... It was already too late to change when I first mentioned it. Since it's not possible to add a new field dedicated to mode, I thought it was possible to write 2 K: fields in a tune, if necessary : the first one for the signature, and

Re: [abcusers] Modes (and iabc skink)

2002-06-24 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 19:08, Forgeot Eric wrote: Iabc doesn't understand the K:Am That's completely unacceptable; the program should never have been released in that state. It's not very kind for the author. I think it have to : it's good to see a new application. No comment on that

Re: [abcusers] OT: Battle of Aughrim

2002-03-18 Thread Wendy Galovich
Try searching under the spelling Allistrum's March. It's listed that way in O'Neill's. Wendy On Monday 18 March 2002 14:58, Rick Davis wrote: John Walsh wrote: There are some other unusual tunes on that page of O'Neill's: Thanks for that info. He went on to say that

Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was)

2001-11-02 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Friday 02 November 2001 04:31, Phil Taylor wrote: Gianni Cunich wrote: I won't let your offensive emails drive me away... Do you actually wish to ask Toby making this a censored list? Not a bad idea actually. Why don't we take a vote on expelling Gianni from the list? Phil Taylor

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 04:34, Frank Nordberg wrote: Do you mean poor John is supposed to offer free personal tutoring to anybody who wants to write ABC? John has given a lot of good advice on the subject both here at abcusers and on his web site, so I don't think you should criticize him

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 10:03, John Chambers wrote: The biggest single problem is the damage caused by email line wrapping. This isn't caused by any single program. It's a systemic problem caused by many of the email packages that have been released in recent years. This isn't

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 10:03, John Chambers wrote: The biggest single problem is the damage caused by email line wrapping. This isn't caused by any single program. It's a systemic problem caused by many of the email packages that have been released in recent years. This isn't

Re: [abcusers] Modes and key signatures (Was: Hi)

2001-03-06 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, John Chambers wrote: Of course, with case 3, you want to be able to omit both the root (aka tonic) and the mode when it's not practical to get them right. But in cases 1 and 2, the ideal would be to encourage people to give the tonic if they know it, plus the key

Re: [abcusers] abc server setup?

2001-02-22 Thread Wendy Galovich
Alan, I'm getting the same thing Laura is - a box pops up to download it. I tried both accessing it from the link in your email, and manually typing the URL into Netscape, but it didn't make any difference. It isn't displaying the contents of the file in the browser window at all, so I can't see

Re: Pasting into ABC2Win and was Re: [abcusers] e-mailed ABC tunes

2001-01-18 Thread Wendy Galovich
At 10:19 PM 1/18/2001 -, you wrote: I think the problem is pasting from abc2Win into an e-mail. The header info is in the little boxes at the top. So you can't easily cut and paste the whole thing. I have a couple of work rounds that do OK: 1. load the tune in abcMIDIfier - you can select

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-05 Thread Wendy Galovich
At 09:31 PM 1/5/2001 UTC, John Chambers wrote: ... In a couple cases, people have scanned in music so that others can transcribe it to abc. (This isn't unusual; it has been done with a lot of old documents, most notoriously with the Dead Sea Scrolls.) Really?? What do the Dead Sea

Re: [abcusers] Tuplets

2000-10-27 Thread Wendy Galovich
At 05:18 PM 10/27/2000 -0700, you wrote: A triplet in abc2mtex is written (3abc; in abc2ps, it's ((3abc)---the slur has to be put in explicitly. (Technically, I don't think it's a slur--it's just a grouping symbol to catch the eye, and it's often denoted with an angular slur, instead of

Re: [abcusers] Modes, zipped files etc.

2000-10-17 Thread Wendy Galovich
At 08:21 PM 10/17/00 EDT, you wrote: Frank Nordberg says - And while you're at it, could you add a clear link path from the Lewes Arms main page to the page with the ABCs? Well, not really, owing to domestic politics. The ABCs belong to the Lewes Favourites Practice Sessions which is an

Re: [abcusers] Modes, democracy and benevolent(?) dictatorship

2000-10-16 Thread Wendy Galovich
At 09:41 PM 10/15/2000 EDT, you wrote: http://members.aol.com/LewesArmsFolk/Lewesfav.html. It appears on the abc homepage under abc collections as "Favourite English dance tunes from the Lewes sessions, Sussex". I'd like this to be accessible to other people's software. That being