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
From: Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Margo replied as follows:
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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
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
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
