For those who have wondered what got discussed by the abc standards
committee, here is a summary of our discussion. The section numbers
referred to can be found at
http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard-propose/
James Allwright
This is a summary of the new features proposed in the new abc
Reading this post gave me a sense of deja vu.
On Fri 23 Nov 2001 at 07:53PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote:
One of the arguments I keep hearing against a free-text tempo header is
that there are already many ways of placing arbitrary text into a tune --
usually using the guitar chord notation,
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[about global header fields]
James This is not a widely implemented feature of the abc standard and I
James would personally like it to become deprecated. My reasoning is that
James if you have global fields, you can't treat a
Buddha Buck wrote:
Chord notation is not free text. It is a chord. There may be no
restriction to the syntax of a chord to be presented, but semantically,
it's a chord.
It is essential that the guitar chord syntax is not restricted.
Consider eg. figured bass, which is the Baroque
On Tue 27 Nov 2001 at 06:33AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James yaps supports ! ! for musical instructions which seems to be the closest
James thing to a text tempo field and, yes, you can give it its own font.
Can you change
James Allwright writes:
| They're in the 1.6 standard for other header fields:
|
| : Most of
| : the information fields are for use within a tune header but in
| : addition some may be used in the tune body, or elsewhere in the
| : tune file. Those which are allowed elsewhere can be
James Allwrite wrights:
| Reading this post gave me a sense of deja vu.
...
| In practical terms, I think we are talking about having different fonts
| for different things in a printing program. I also think we have to assume
| that a player can use context i.e. infer a meaning from a word,
Christoph Dalitz wrote:
| Buddha Buck wrote:
|
| Chord notation is not free text. It is a chord. There may be no
| restriction to the syntax of a chord to be presented, but semantically,
| it's a chord.
|
| It is essential that the guitar chord syntax is not restricted.
|
| Consider eg.
I am about to release a CD-ROM with a large number of very carefully
edited and documented tunes linked off a hypertext commentary (see
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/). This is the work which all the
ABC on my website is spinoffs from. I would like to include a choice
of ABC applications
: Most of
: the information fields are for use within a tune header but in
: addition some may be used in the tune body, or elsewhere in the
: tune file.
This is not a widely implemented feature of the abc standard and I
would personally like it to become deprecated. My reasoning is that
Chord notation is not free text. It is a chord. There may be no
restriction to the syntax of a chord to be presented, but semantically,
it's a chord.
And for some playback programs (Muse is one, I think) chord semantics is
both precisely defined and used by the interpreter; Laurie
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