Wendy Galovich says -
I hope they wouldn't mind if you wanted to add your tune pages to
the world wide index at some point, once the abcs are in plain text.
No problem, but bear in mind these tunes are aimed at relatively
inexperienced musicians who want to join in some of the tune
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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Of course, this does run contrary to the other common approach, which
might be summarized "If the ABC has even a tiny error, you should
reject it, lest people be encouraged to keep making errors."
The consequence of this is to
Laurie wrote:
I suspect that a greater problem lies in the finer detail. For instance
(not saying BF, Muse or any particular package does or does not
accept any of these things, they are just to give a feel)
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I think BarFly will reject all of those, except for the long title,
where it
Excuse the change of subject line, but I didn't think Modes, democracy and
benevolent(?) dictatorship was quite what was being talked about anymore.
Laurie Griffiths says -
These details have the potential for allowing music
created by hand and "checked" by one package to be
unacceptable to
Excuse the change of subject line, but I didn't think Modes, democracy and
benevolent(?) dictatorship was quite what was being talked about anymore.
Laurie Griffiths says -
These details have the potential for allowing music
created by hand and "checked" by one package to be
unacceptable to
For a discussion of keys and modes that we haven't yet done to death:
I was reminded by a discussion on another list that one convention in
printed music is that if the key signature changes, the former
signature is first cancelled by use of naturals, and then the new key
signature is written.
I have a plea from a BarFly user who is transcribing Polish hymns, and
he needs a way to place two words on one note. Now he can do it using
the Mac's non-breaking space (option-space), but would prefer a more
portable method, since that character is not necessarily an NBS on
other platforms.
Phil Taylor asks:
| I have a plea from a BarFly user who is transcribing Polish hymns, and
| he needs a way to place two words on one note. Now he can do it using
| the Mac's non-breaking space (option-space), but would prefer a more
| portable method, since that character is not
"Phil" == Phil Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Phil I have a plea from a BarFly user who is transcribing Polish
Phil hymns, and he needs a way to place two words on one note.
Phil Now he can do it using the Mac's non-breaking space
Phil (option-space), but would prefer a more
Isn't the tilde (~) a "combining" space? Abc2ps treats it that way and I'm
pretty sure it's described in the draft standard.
I use "w: 1.~First..." all the time to put the "1." and the first word of
the line together on the first note with a space between the period and the
word.
John
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