Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-31 Thread Laurie Griffiths
Atte wrote that Dr. Matt wrote 'To write a slur from F# to F you MUST always write a natural sign on the F.' Sound advice because that at least is unambiguous. The trouble is that with all questions like this, the more you probe the more you discover that there is no such thing as standard

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-31 Thread John Chambers
Laurie wrote: | Atte wrote that Dr. Matt wrote 'To write a slur from F# to F you MUST always | write a natural sign on the | F.' | | Sound advice because that at least is unambiguous. | | The trouble is that with all questions like this, the more you probe the | more you discover that there is no

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-31 Thread James Allwright
On Thu 31 Jan 2002 at 03:31PM +, John Chambers wrote: in the passage that discusses the scope of accidentals. The common modern rule is: An accidental persists to the next bar line or to the end of the note (including ties). I tried looking up the definition in a music

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Taylor
Atte Andre Jensen wrote: I never used abc for midi playback before the other day. I grabbed abc2midi and ran my abc through it just to find that it doesn't handle tied notes correctly. If I have CDE^F- | F that is perfectly allowed in music notation, and abcm2ps also findes it no problem at

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-30 Thread Laura Conrad
Atte == Atte Andre Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Atte If I have Atte CDE^F- | F Atte that is perfectly allowed in music notation, and abcm2ps also findes it no Atte problem at all (which it isn't), but abc2midi gives me this in the Atte midifile: Atte CDE^F | F

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-30 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On 30 Jan 2002, Laura Conrad wrote: I agree that in ABC, where the assumption is that what the user enters is what a printing program should print, it's a bug. This is a case which does demand some special code. Alternatively, the standard could address the problem in such a way as to

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Taylor
Atte Andre Jensen wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Phil Taylor wrote: I think you will find that several programs have this problem. BarFly certainly does. But how do *you* work with midifiles then? I put in the necessary accidentals to make it play properly, even though they are redundant in

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-30 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Phil Taylor wrote: Atte Andre Jensen wrote: But how do *you* work with midifiles then? I put in the necessary accidentals to make it play properly, even though they are redundant in the printed version. :-( It's a fairly rare occurrence. If your music is either very

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-30 Thread Laurie Griffiths
John Chambers wrote Well, I'd object to this, on the grounds that a music formatter should show exactly what I tell it... There are two problems here which John seems to be disregarding for the moment. Firstly, the only way that it could show exactly what he wrote is to display the ABC

Re: [abcusers] ties and midi

2002-01-30 Thread John W. Beland
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