Frank Nordberg wrote:
As far as I know, BarFly is the only ABC program that has an intonation
function, and it certainly adds to the realism of the playback. It's
really a pity it can't be exported to other programs.
BarFly plays using Quicktime, which does have an absolute pitch
standard,
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
Right - programs should accept the widest choice but generate standard ABC.
BUT
Think about Barfly. It doesn't generate at all.
That's true in a sense, since BarFly is a text editor, and accepts
any text you type into it and saves it without qualms.
If it accepts
Nice tune.
As a matter of interest, which packages are happy with the V: commands?
Just the other day someone was pointing out that they are not in the
standard.
To start the ball rolling, Muse found no problem with them.
(The tune caused Muse some problems in achieving a neat layout. The
"Laurie" == Laurie Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Laurie As a matter of interest, which packages are happy with the
Laurie V: commands?
Both barfly and abc2ps use them, but with slightly different syntax.
The major difference is how you specify clefs, but I think there are
minor
| As a matter of interest, which packages are happy with the V: commands?
| Just the other day someone was pointing out that they are not in the
| standard.
| To start the ball rolling, Muse found no problem with them.
Well, abc2ps has had them for some time now. But I think there
For what it's worth, when I wrote Skink I decided to accept
the 1.6 standard plus W: and w: and the Barfly decorations
(T for trill, H for fermata, etc) as my first pass, and then
add V: for the second release. Why? they seemed the most
useful to me, as a user with fairly "non-esoteric" needs.
I would like to see in BarFly is a "Save as standard abc" menu
command. A text file would be saved (and displayed) that preserves
as much of the active file as possible without using any features
not found in the current standard. V: lines and whatever else
would either be stripped or
At 08:21 PM 10/17/00 EDT, you wrote:
Frank Nordberg says -
And while you're at it, could you add a clear link path from the Lewes
Arms main page to the page with the ABCs?
Well, not really, owing to domestic politics. The ABCs belong to the Lewes
Favourites Practice Sessions which is an
