Re: [abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-17 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Jack Campin wrote: Richard's tunebook is the only ABC file I've got on this machine that requires me to increase BarFly's memory allocation above the default (and it's very slow to load). This is the old Mac systems issue, is it, of having to specify memory for each

Re: [abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-17 Thread Richard Robinson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:39:40AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: Given that ABC is text-line-based, *can* a program go straight to a tune, random-access-like, without having read all the intervening lines? random-access-like... yes, it's possible. My JedABC has an index mode that does what you

Re: [abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-17 Thread Richard Robinson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:55:03AM +0200, Guido Gonzato wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Jack Campin wrote: Richard's tunebook is the only ABC file I've got on this machine that requires me to increase BarFly's memory allocation above the default (and it's very slow to load). This is the

Re: [abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-17 Thread T.M. Sommers
Jack Campin wrote: BarFly currently has an interesting bug (which probably nobody but me has ever encountered) in which certain kinds of text at the end of a file can screw up the processing of a tune near the start, even with hundreds of intervening tunes. So it's not even behaving like a one-

[abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-16 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Richard Robinson wrote: It's kind of a propaganda/advocacy point rather than a technical details issue, but maybe it could do with at least being mentioned ? sure, I will. Given that ABC is tet-line-based, *can* a program go straight to a tune, random-access-like,

Re: [abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-16 Thread Jack Campin
Given that ABC is text-line-based, *can* a program go straight to a tune, random-access-like, without having read all the intervening lines? random-access-like... yes, it's possible. My JedABC has an index mode that does what you want; so does BarFly in Split Screen Mode. But BarFly will have

Re: [abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-16 Thread Richard Robinson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:07:51AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: Given that ABC is text-line-based, *can* a program go straight to a tune, random-access-like, without having read all the intervening lines? random-access-like... yes, it's possible. My JedABC has an index mode that does what you

Re: [abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-16 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Richard Robinson wrote: Or software that can read from standard input and has access to perl is very welcome to use abc-cat as a preprocessor (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Inof/RRTuneBk/abcscripts) Got this error: Sorry! The document you tried to access cannot be found,

Re: [abcusers] random-access-like...

2003-07-16 Thread Richard Robinson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:26:21PM +0200, I. Oppenheim wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Richard Robinson wrote: Or software that can read from standard input and has access to perl is very welcome to use abc-cat as a preprocessor (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Inof/RRTuneBk/abcscripts) Got