Hello,
for those interested, I have uploaded the A proposal for a new ABC 2.0.0
standard (rev. 14/7/2003) on my site. Have a look:
http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/#ABC%20Plus%20draft
It took me quite some time to get this unimpressive thing together, so
please:
* only constructive criticism
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:29:15 +0100, Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Does abc have a separate way of notating acciaccaturas (the slashed
grace note) as opposed to the appoggiatura (unslashed)?
I think it exists only in abcm2ps, putting a slash just after the
opening brace:
{/B}c
Is
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:14:22 UTC, John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Richard Robinson writes:
| What about :|: ? I think this is another abc2win-ism (?) which not all
| programs seem to cope with.
In general, people seem to use any and all combinations of :|[] as
complex bar lines. In
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:19:47 +0200 (CEST), Manuel Reiter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I have noticed that both of you have dropped the original abc2ps's
transpose function. I guess there's a good reason for that, but I found it
quite convenient.
[snip]
There was no
this is what the archive abcm2ps-3.6.4.zip contains:
165376 07-08-03 13:10 abcm2ps-3.6.4/abcm2ps.exe
I guess he d/l the archive from JF Moine's website, and not your,
otherwise he would have got this binary ;)
Otherwise for more help with abcm2ps (automatic laucher), this
page may be
Jack Campin wrote:
After meeting Richard Robinson at the Newcastleton festival the
weekend before last and playing a few tunes in the same sessions
(there can't have been many Scottish tune sessions featuring two
clarinets before) it occurred to me that probably most people on
this list
Hey, folks-- I have what I hope is a simple question with a simple
answer. I want to take an ABC file that contains a few dozen tunes and
print the whole thing, either one tune per page or multiple tunes.
Is there a way to do this with any of the ABC programs? I currently use
ABC2Win, and
Jean-Francois Moine writes:
| On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:14:22 UTC, John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| While merging jcabc2ps in abcm2ps, I set this feature in a different
| way: the sequence of bars (8 bars max) are displayed as written, with
| only little expansions, and no reduction. For
If you've ever played with only 20 people, and each of them has played with
only half that number other than those you have played with, and this
relationship is repeated for those others, it takes only 10 jumps to exceed
the population of the world.
So, Walshaw numbers must of necessity be very
Jean-Francois Moine writes:
| On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 20:19:47 +0200 (CEST), Manuel Reiter
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| [snip]
| I have noticed that both of you have dropped the original abc2ps's
| transpose function. I guess there's a good reason for that, but I found it
| quite convenient.
|
On Monday 14 July 2003 1:36 pm, Phil Gregg wrote:
So, Walshaw numbers must of necessity be very small for all of us!
The nature of the beast is that it is actually quite difficult to get a high
Erdos number (well, mine is infinite).
I seem to recall reading somewhere a mathematician's
First congratulations to Guido on putting this together - it does seem to include most of the updated features. I have stayed out of most of the discussions on what to include/exclude from the standard, but would like to give a group of comments on this draft form (and I have counted to several
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote:
After meeting Richard Robinson at the Newcastleton festival the
weekend before last and playing a few tunes in the same sessions
(there can't have been many Scottish tune sessions featuring two
clarinets before)
No, there have been.
You're not far off there, Richard!
My instrument is actually Irish tuned fourstring banjo, but my friends
refuse to use the words player and banjo in the same sentence. They
insist it's ungrammatical.
They refer to me instead as a Banjo Hitter... So, thanks to you, maybe I'll
rename the
I've never coauthored a paper with Paul Erdos, but he spoke at my
graduation...
wil
Jack Campin wrote:
After meeting Richard Robinson at the Newcastleton festival the
weekend before last and playing a few tunes in the same sessions
(there can't have been many Scottish tune sessions featuring
Slightly off topic but Phil Gregg wrote:
My instrument is actually Irish tuned fourstring banjo, but my friends
refuse to use the words player and banjo in the same
sentence. They
insist it's ungrammatical.
They refer to me instead as a Banjo Hitter... So, thanks to you, maybe
I'll
rename the
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:51:54PM +0100, Phil Gregg wrote:
You're not far off there, Richard!
My instrument is actually Irish tuned fourstring banjo, but my friends
refuse to use the words player and banjo in the same sentence. They
insist it's ungrammatical.
They refer to me instead as a
I think that all of the abc2ps/abcm2ps clones will do this.
Ali
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 07:42:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey, folks-- I have what I hope is a simple question with a simple
answer. I want to take an ABC file that contains a few dozen tunes and
print the whole thing,
Hello,With ABC2Win, how do I get a triplet with quarter notes?
Regards,Rickard[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jack Campin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Surely a performer wants to know what the writer meant? And lack of
repeat starts means there is no information as to how the tune was
to be played, eg whether the whole tune repeated or just to the
previous double or repeat
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:37:48AM +0200, Guido Gonzato wrote:
Hello,
for those interested, I have uploaded the A proposal for a new ABC 2.0.0
standard (rev. 14/7/2003) on my site. Have a look:
http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/#ABC%20Plus%20draft
It took me quite some time to get this
Is there a way to do this with any of the ABC programs? I
currently use
ABC2Win, and can't figure out a way to do it. I hate the idea of
printing
each individually.
I thought it was possible to print several pages with abc2win...
otherwise as someone said, abc#2ps can do this. If it's only
Thank you Guido, for your valiant attempt at updating the abc
standard.
Here are a few comments:
File organisation - perhaps this needs a paragraph to itself?
Section 2 says that tunes are separated by blank lines, but says
nothing about text between tunes (should be explicitly permitted,
Hello,
With ABC2Win, how do I get a triplet with quarter notes?
L:1/8
(3A2B2C2 ought to work
(and you ought to be able to print multiple tunes if your
version of abc2win is registered too.)
Phil Taylor
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Phil Taylor writes:
|
| Section 2.1.2, the paragraph on Global accidentals could at
| least mention the possibility of adding these to the key signature
| rather than dotting them through the tune as an option.
Since this is one of the things I've implemented, I was also thinking
of suggesting
Bernard Hill writes:
Surely a performer wants to know what the writer meant? And lack of
repeat starts means there is no information as to how the tune was
to be played, eg whether the whole tune repeated or just to the
previous double or repeat bar.
imo notation which is incorrect should
Phil Taylor writes:
|
| Section 2.1.4 on Clefs does nothing to heal the biggest single
| schism between programs, i.e. what the correspondence between
| abc symbol and note pitch is for different clefs. Some programs
| keep it the same - e.g. in BarFly C always means middle C, regardless
| of
Richard Robinson writes:
| But, one little thought occurred to me, re the much-discussed and
| little-agreed ! staff-break. With no prejudice as to whether this ought
| to exist, etc etc (except that, the more I think about it, the more I'd
| like it, so, if it helps ...) it needn't conflict with
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:00:26AM +, John Chambers wrote:
Richard Robinson writes:
| But, one little thought occurred to me, re the much-discussed and
| little-agreed ! staff-break. With no prejudice as to whether this ought
| to exist, etc etc (except that, the more I think about it, the
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