Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-06-02 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 06:43, Frank Nordberg wrote: Eric Galluzzo wrote: For what it's worth, abcm2ps 2.10.9 (February 10, 2002) didn't have any problem with it apart from the global accidentals [snip] I can post a PDF (23K) or PostScript (43K) file containing the output if

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-06-01 Thread Frank Nordberg
Eric Galluzzo wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 16:11, Frank Nordberg wrote: I really wonder what the results from other abc applications are. For what it's worth, abcm2ps 2.10.9 (February 10, 2002) didn't have any problem with it apart from the global accidentals, which it gave one

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-30 Thread Phil Taylor
Frank Nordberg wrote: I've been trying to find a piece of music where FF2 actually would make sense. In the end I had to write one myself. Except for the V: header fields - which are idiomatic for BarFly - this should be pretty straight forward ABC. There are a few nasty little details here,

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-30 Thread Frank Nordberg
Phil Taylor wrote: Ooh that's dirty! Ties across metre changes, across into and out of broken rhythm pairs, broken rhythms used as part of triplets... Well, the general idea was to cover as many problems with the , ties, slurs and triplet brackets as possible. And then I just threw in the

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-30 Thread Laurie (ukonline)
Frank asked I really wonder what the results from other abc applications are. Well, (deep breath) Muse didn't like it a lot. It generates a bug report saying ABC ties don't match Muse ties. Please report this bug to me. That is one of quite a learge number of messages in Muse that are never

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-30 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 16:11, Frank Nordberg wrote: I really wonder what the results from other abc applications are. For what it's worth, abcm2ps 2.10.9 (February 10, 2002) didn't have any problem with it apart from the global accidentals, which it gave one warning about (Unknown token in key

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-29 Thread Anselm Lingnau
James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What and gives you in abc2midi is a notation for tunes in 6/8 masquerading as tunes in 4/4. This covers hornpipes and probably strathspays (though I can't tell since I don't get to hear very many of those). This is not a mistake. Yes it is, as

[abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread DavBarnert
James Allwright wrote: The inconsistency is deliberate. The point is that when you play a hornpipe or anything else with dotted rhythm (or swing, or whatever you want to call it), keeping a 3:1 ratio is rather harder than keeping a 2:1 ratio and doesn't really add much musically apart from

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 28 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Allwright wrote: The inconsistency is deliberate. The point is that when you play a hornpipe or anything else with dotted rhythm (or swing, or whatever you want to call it), keeping a 3:1 ratio is rather harder than keeping a 2:1

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 28 May 2002, James Allwright wrote: On Tue 28 May 2002 at 08:32AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Allwright wrote: The inconsistency is deliberate. The point is that when you play a hornpipe or anything else with dotted rhythm (or swing, or whatever you want to call

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread John Chambers
James Allwright wrote: | It sounds like you're saying that cannot be used to notate the | first notes of Mari's Wedding to play as I've always heard it | played. This would be unacceptable. | | No-one else has used Mairi's Wedding to define the meaning of . | What and gives you in abc2midi

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 28 May 2002, John Chambers wrote: But this would definitely decrease your rebel points. Maybe you could make up for it by having options that generate the latest in metal/industrial/whatever that critics are railing against. Then we could run through O'Neill's or Playford

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread John Walsh
John Chambers writes: Actually, what would be better would be to have it recognize R:hornpipe as meaning that implies a triplet, while R:strathspey rewrites as . While strathspeys do have triplets, they are always notated as such (and have three notes). But it's common to