Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-09 Thread Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio
Em Seg 07 Jun 2004 20:12, Richard Walker escreveu: There are keys like X:, T:, C:, N:, K:, etc. for everything except the body of the tune. Is there a left over symbol that could precede the body of a tune? ... or with the huge collection of abc tunes that already exists, is it simply best

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-07 Thread Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio
Em Qua 02 Jun 2004 14:26, Phil Taylor escreveu: Interesting. If you look at the html source for the first tune in that file it looks like this: p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:.5in;tab-stops:.6in 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in 4.6in 5.1in 5.6in'span lang=EN-GB

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-07 Thread Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio
Em Qua 02 Jun 2004 12:47, John Chambers escreveu: Jack Campin writes: [snip] | The problem is how best to say this. | There is a list of headers that could contain a code for no | notes. This field already uses a double quote to indicate that | accompaniment chords are present. I

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-07 Thread Phil Taylor
On 7 Jun 2004, at 08:46, Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio wrote: Em Qua 02 Jun 2004 12:47, John Chambers escreveu: Jack Campin writes: [snip] | The problem is how best to say this. | There is a list of headers that could contain a code for no | notes. This field already uses a double quote to

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-07 Thread Phil Taylor
On 7 Jun 2004, at 08:53, Paulo Eleutério Tibúrcio wrote: Em Qua 02 Jun 2004 14:26, Phil Taylor escreveu: Interesting. If you look at the html source for the first tune in that file it looks like this: p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:.5in;tab-stops:.6in 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-07 Thread John Chambers
Phil Taylor writes: | On 7 Jun 2004, at 08:46, Paulo Eleut=E9rio Tib=FArcio wrote: | Em Qua 02 Jun 2004 12:47, John Chambers escreveu: | Jack Campin writes: | [snip] | | The problem is how best to say this. | | There is a list of headers that could contain a code for no | | notes. This

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-07 Thread Jack Campin
The problem is how best to say this. There is a list of headers that could contain a code for no notes. This field already uses a double quote to indicate that accompaniment chords are present. I wonder if there's a good single char that could stand for notes, or maybe for no notes?

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-07 Thread John Chambers
Jack Campin comments: | X:0 | T:Dalnahassaig | Z:Jack Campin http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ version 1.0 September 2001 | C:Pipe Major George S. McLennan | S:Gordon Highlanders Pipe Music Collection volume I | B:NLS Mus.D.s.19 | R:Strathspey | M:C | K:Hp | % No tune body - index entry | | which,

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-03 Thread Jon Freeman
From: John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1. remove all CR and LF characters. | 2 remove all /p | 3 change all p to CR/LF | 4 change all br to CR/LF | | I've probably missed something but it's a thought... That would work for some files, and fail for others. The main problem is that a

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-03 Thread Jon Freeman
From: Jeff Szuhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. remove all CR and LF characters. 2 remove all /p 3 change all p to CR/LF 4 change all br to CR/LF While I recognize this is a first stab heuristic, it fails because of too many assumptions. For line endings: Windows/DOS use CR/LF

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-03 Thread John Chambers
Jack Campin comments: | | Where you *are* going to get a problem is if the input file uses a | mixture of linebreak characters and HTML tags to indicate ABC line | ends. Could anybody really be that stupid?... er, well... In fact, I've seen ABC embedded in HTML by using the pre.../pre tags,

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-03 Thread Jon Freeman
From: John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact, I've seen ABC embedded in HTML by using the pre.../pre tags, and then putting br at the end of each line. The pre tag means to preserve whitespace (including CR and LF) exactly, while processing tags in the data. The br tag means to

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-02 Thread Jack Campin
| I have some ABC files where I use the notation as a tunographic | database - there is no body, either because I haven't got round | to typing it in or don't intend to. Well, for staff notation, my Tune Finder shouldn't have any probem. It will produce the the title, composer, etc, and no

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-02 Thread John Chambers
Jack Campin comments: | Well, for staff notation, my Tune Finder shouldn't have any probem. | It will produce the the title, composer, etc, and no staff. [...] | As for sound files, I use abc2midi, which produces a really short | file if there's no tune body. That's about all it can

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-02 Thread John Chambers
Jack Campin writes: | I've had a number of email queries about | apparent failures that were due to tunes that lacked any notes. | Sometimes this was intentional, sometimes it was because the file was | double spaced. It would be useful to have an indication of this. | | The

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-02 Thread John Walsh
The double-spaced ones are a nightmare. Have you figured out what sequence of events creates them? It can happen when a file passes thru both a DOS and Unix editor. Cheers, JW To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-06-02 Thread John Chambers
Jon Freeman writes: | From: John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I've seen a couple of sites that have ABC-in-HTML with p at the end | of each line. This is purposely double spaced, so there's probably no | good fix for it. | | If you are talking about filtering the HTML, perhaps this would work

[abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-05-31 Thread Jack Campin
I have some ABC files where I use the notation as a tunographic database - there is no body, either because I haven't got round to typing it in or don't intend to. The GS MacLennan tune file on my website is an example: I've included bodies for the tunes I can reproduce with no problem, but for

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-05-31 Thread Dafydd Monks
You could try N/B (No Body) Dafydd. - Original Message - From: Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ABC Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 2:16 PM Subject: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank I have some ABC files where I use the notation as a tunographic

Re: [abcusers] this tune intentionally left blank

2004-05-31 Thread John Chambers
Jack Campin comments: | I have some ABC files where I use the notation as a tunographic | database - there is no body, either because I haven't got round | to typing it in or don't intend to. The GS MacLennan tune file | on my website is an example: I've included bodies for the tunes | I can