John Walsh -
One basis of misunderstanding here may be an assumption that
instrument-specific notation must be carved in stone in the language--as
u and v for upbow and downbow are now, for instance. It doesn't. (It
can't, really, for abc doesn't have the resources. In my own case, I have
Phil Sauve wrote:
2. When I replay a tune in the split screen mode, the music play
always goes back to the first tune entered and then I have to
manualy go to the tune I want repeated.
Phil Taylor wrote:
When you play a tune in BarFly, the tune which plays is the one
where the text
James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What and gives you in abc2midi is a notation for tunes in
6/8 masquerading as tunes in 4/4. This covers hornpipes and probably
strathspays (though I can't tell since I don't get to hear very many
of those). This is not a mistake.
Yes it is, as
Bryan Creer writes:
Well, it didn't take much figuring since that is what I stated explicitly but
it is the public aspect of abc that I was referring to. I'm not sure why you
consider this mislistthropic.
I don't at all---I was just referring to your statement that:
There was no
| brackets for slurs when it's possible. If not (if it may
confuse)
| I'll use - instead.
In any case, most musicians don't consider them to be
different.
This one does. :-) Some folk musicians may not consider them to
be
different, but I'd argue that most classical musicians do.
Oh,
I've just been transcribing some tunes from
Ryan's/Coles for John Chambers' project. These include fingering
for the
fiddle on some notes. I had to use guitar chords to stick this
in, and, to
be charitable, it looks awful. The numbers are too far from the
notes,
and often conflict with other
abcm2ps allows
!0!C!1!D !2!E!3!F !4!G!5!A !+!B c
to display nice numbers above staff and
the w: field to display them below...
The above looks pretty hideous and if you put the fingerings in w:, where do
you put the words?
Laurie
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John Chambers wrote:
As I (sorta) understand the suggestions, they amount to defining a
list of standard musical terms, possibly in the !...! form. This
would give us a list of things like !fermata!, !mf!, !sfz!, !trill!,
!roll!, and so on. These could be used, but the result
