Re: [abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-15 Thread Phil Taylor
Anselm Lingnau wrote: Phil Taylor wrote: BarFly's macro processor does take lengths. You have to write a separate macro for each length of note. The reason for this is that an ornament which sounds right on a half note is often wrong on an eighth. I'm confused now. Suppose I had

Re: [abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) writes: I'm confused now. Suppose I had definitions for `Mn' and `Mn2'. What would happen (a) for `Mc' (b) for `Mc2' (c) for `Mc4' in the body of a tune? The interesting point is whether the `n' includes a length or not. (a) and (b) will expand, (c) will

Re: [abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:59:45PM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: | I wasn't able to test the script, unfortunately. MacPerl has got itself | into a fankle [...] Us Mac users don't have a lot of fun with perl. | Every time I try to use it I end up concluding that it would be quicker | to write

Re: [abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-14 Thread Anselm Lingnau
Phil Taylor wrote: BarFly's macro processor does take lengths. You have to write a separate macro for each length of note. The reason for this is that an ornament which sounds right on a half note is often wrong on an eighth. I'm confused now. Suppose I had definitions for `Mn' and `Mn2'.

[abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-13 Thread Anselm Lingnau
All right, everybody, please forget the simple-minded piece of junk I posted recently, which suffered from the delusion of being a BarFly macro preprocessor. As far as I am concerned here comes the Real Thing, based on Phil Taylor's description of BarFly macros (I hope it does everything right).