[abcusers] New version of abc tunebook

2001-06-19 Thread Henrik Norbeck
This is to announce that a new version of Henrik Norbeck's abc tunes is available at http://home.swipnet.se/hnorbeck/abc.htm Updated and enlarged. New titles for previously untitled tunes. Additional information and cross-references. Now 1625 Irish tunes! It's also a test of the abcusers list,

Re: [abcusers] MIDI cat ?

2001-06-19 Thread James Allwright
On Mon 18 Jun 2001 at 05:07PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: I don't think you can do this by simply concatenating the MIDI files. I agree with this. Concatenating single track MIDI files could perhaps be done without too much analysis, but concatenating multiple track MIDI files would require

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Phil Taylor
Bryan Creer wrote: Yes, it is true that www.irishnet.com makes a bit of a pigs ear of the individually displayed tunes but I downloaded the whole collection and it only gave me one significant problem, an M: 6/8 command imbedded in the tune. There shouldn't be a space after the :. So

Re: [abcusers] New BarFly release ...

2001-06-19 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: Phil Taylor wrote: If you want to see the BarFly version of the tune, it's at: It occurs to me: If Phil were to write a version of BarFly that also worked with lilypond, the first releases would probably not do too good a job of it, and would mess up a lot of both

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 04:34, Frank Nordberg wrote: Do you mean poor John is supposed to offer free personal tutoring to anybody who wants to write ABC? John has given a lot of good advice on the subject both here at abcusers and on his web site, so I don't think you should criticize him

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Bryancreer
Frank Nordberg said - Hi Bryan - I had begun to wonder if you were on a vacation trip or something. Hi Frank- no, but after Phil Taylor's descent into puerile personal abuse and the subsequent failure of anyone else to tick him off for breach of etiquette I decided I'd had enough for a while

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Bryancreer
Phil Taylor says - Does ABCcheck report a space in the M: field as an error? No it doesn't. This is a specific problem to do with abc2win (so it will give you another stick to beat it with.) The problem was not with ABCcheck but with abc2nwc. abc2win allows inline commands just by plonking

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Bryancreer
Just to get this one out of the way... John Chambers says - This is presumably the source of his use of the term "hypocrisy". I've just done a quick check and I can't find the term "hypocrisy" in any posting of mine I've still got on file (and I don't tidy up very often). I didn't actually

Re: [abcusers] superscript in abcm2ps 2.3.3

2001-06-19 Thread Atte André Jensen
On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:14, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: I looked at the french printed music I have, and I choosed to let the \# and \b aligned with the other text, as it was. You might be right with this, I see both (should I post some tiny gif's with examples to discuss??) In my

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software (was:midi2abc [was: Wanted: ABC transcription...])

2001-06-19 Thread Atte André Jensen
On Monday 18 June 2001 12:19, Frank Nordberg wrote: Sorry Steve, your way behind modern times too. Fact is, we already have perfectly good (or so the ads say) ways to get computers to compose and play the music without any subjective and emotional human interference at all. Yeah, seems your

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 10:03, John Chambers wrote: The biggest single problem is the damage caused by email line wrapping. This isn't caused by any single program. It's a systemic problem caused by many of the email packages that have been released in recent years. This isn't

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-19 Thread Wendy Galovich
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 10:03, John Chambers wrote: The biggest single problem is the damage caused by email line wrapping. This isn't caused by any single program. It's a systemic problem caused by many of the email packages that have been released in recent years. This isn't