On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:55:27 -0400, Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[snip]
Third, UTF-8 is designed so that Latin-1 characters are encoded as-is
(which also means that 7-bit ASCII characters are encoded as-is), so all
existing ABC files that use either ASCII only or Latin-1 are
Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:55:27 -0400, Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[snip]
Third, UTF-8 is designed so that Latin-1 characters are encoded as-is
(which also means that 7-bit ASCII characters are encoded as-is), so all
existing ABC files that use either ASCII
John Chambers wrote:
Those are a slightly-abbreviated version of the TeX
notation, supported by abc2mtex and abc2ps. What other abc
tools implement these?
AbcMus supports a bunch of them (if you select the option for
doing so). I could post a list later.
(One thing I just noticed
From: Bernard Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or even English: The First Noël
That would be French. In English it's The First Nowell.
Well Chloë then.
I have Spike Jones's magnificent recording somewhere and I'm sure
the title is spelled like that :-)
Dave
David Webber
Author of MOZART the music
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, I. Oppenheim wrote:
The ABC standard itself should make it possible to
specify the code page in which the text inside the ABC
tune is coded. It is probably safe to assume iso8859-1
(Latin-1) as default, if nothing is specified by the
user. This way the user could also
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Guido Gonzato wrote:
In the draft, I didn't mention codepages, iso and
some such. I'm sure 95% of ABC users would not
understand what it's all about.
Probably; but the software packages that write ABC
should specify the codepage in a standardized way,
unless the
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:25:46AM +0200, I. Oppenheim wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Guido Gonzato wrote:
In the draft, I didn't mention codepages, iso and
some such. I'm sure 95% of ABC users would not
understand what it's all about.
Probably; but the software packages that write ABC
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:34:03AM +0200, Guido Gonzato wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, I. Oppenheim wrote:
And what about \'a style accent notation?
obviously, I've added a section that deals with it! :-)
Is there a list anywhere of which programs recognise which of these
sequences ?
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I. Oppenheim wrote:
|
| All I wrote is that ABC tunes are written using
| characters: A-Z, a-z, and some symbols.
|
| And what about \'a style accent notation?
Those are a slightly-abbreviated version of the TeX
notation, supported by abc2mtex and abc2ps. What other abc
tools
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Laura Conrad
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Richard == Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Richard Umm. Even if you only write in Spanish, French, German, Danish,
Richard Norwegian, Swedish ... you're going to want non-127 accented
Richard characters.
Bernard == Bernard Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard Umm. Even if you only write in Spanish, French, German, Danish,
Richard Norwegian, Swedish ... you're going to want non-127 accented
Richard characters. If you don't write lyrics you'll want them for a tune
Richard title.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Laura Conrad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Bernard == Bernard Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Richard Umm. Even if you only write in Spanish, French, German, Danish,
Richard Norwegian, Swedish ... you're going to want non-127 accented
Richard characters. If
John Chambers wrote:
| And what about \'a style accent notation?
Those are a slightly-abbreviated version of the TeX
notation, supported by abc2mtex and abc2ps. What other abc
tools implement these?
This is the set that BarFly supports (the right hand column may not
come out correct
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, David Webber wrote:
I suspect that the only things the abc standard has
to worry about, as far as applications on different
platforms go, is to do with specification of text
fonts
The actual font type to be used is a typical issues for
the stylesheet meta standard.
and
I. Oppenheim wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, David Webber wrote:
I suspect that the only things the abc standard has
to worry about, as far as applications on different
platforms go, is to do with specification of text
fonts
The actual font type to be used is a typical issues for
the stylesheet
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes
I. Oppenheim wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, David Webber wrote:
I suspect that the only things the abc standard has
to worry about, as far as applications on different
platforms go, is to do with specification of text
fonts
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Buddha Buck wrote:
For syntax (e.g., everything that isn't text, stick to stricty 7-bit
ASCII characters. No accents, no other funny stuff. Just straight
7-bit ASCII.
Agreed.
Bernard Hill wrote:
That's a strictly American view. There are 2
important characters on our
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Buddha Buck wrote:
For syntax (e.g., everything that isn't text, stick to stricty 7-bit
ASCII characters. No accents, no other funny stuff. Just straight
7-bit ASCII.
Agreed.
Bernard Hill wrote:
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