Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-21 Thread Martin Tarenskeen
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, John Chambers wrote: This is one of the standard problems with universal data formats. The people who design such formats usually seem to miss a lot of the information that is in other formats, or decide that such information isn't needed. The graphics world has

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Holland
(just to address one point) On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:49:21PM +, John Chambers wrote: One of the problems that I think I've seen in my occasional looks at MusicXML is that it permits the representation of music as a pile of isolated notes, with no clues as to their structure. If you

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-19 Thread John Chambers
Dave Holland writes: | On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:03:23PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: | Would be nice to start working on a commandline tool that can take many | types of music notation formats as input and produces any other of these | formats as output. | | I think it would be more use to

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-19 Thread John Chambers
Neil Jennings writes: | Problem is that the 'independent format' needs to accommodate all | functionality required from all formats. | I don't think MusicXML fits the bill yet. It doesn't seem to support some of | the constructs that I need (unless I have missed something). | | Agree that when we

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Holland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:13:44PM +0100, Neil Jennings wrote: Problem is that the 'independent format' needs to accommodate all functionality required from all formats. To a certain extent; otherwise you end up with a complicated monstrosity that no-one supports all aspects of anyway. I

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-13 Thread Dave Holland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:03:23PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Would be nice to start working on a commandline tool that can take many types of music notation formats as input and produces any other of these formats as output. I think it would be more use to have a program for each format

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-13 Thread Norman Schmidt
Hello, One ascii based format you didn't mention is MusicXML which I believe has a very bright future. It allows moving music among any of the commercial programs you mention. I'm looking into exporting this format from my little online program at http://www.normanschmidt.net/abassc.php .

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-13 Thread Neil Jennings
' then this would be the preferred approach. Neil Jennings - Original Message - From: Dave Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 October 2003 12:28 Subject: Re: [abcusers] mup On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:03:23PM +0200, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Would be nice to start