Re: [abcusers] skink, java and |

2004-12-11 Thread Wil Macaulay
Atte, when you say 'it's the same in other applications do you mean that other java applications also will not allow you to enter the | key? Is there a key on your keyboard that has the | key on it, or do you normally have to use a composition key sequence? wil Atte André Jensen wrote: Hi I

Re: [abcusers] [ABCp] Parts

2004-10-29 Thread Wil Macaulay
Yes, I do have a suggestion: if you really want to implement a 'generic parser', start by choosing a standard to implement. If you want to suggest changes to the standard, do so as an independent process. Otherwise you'll end up with a parser that only parses non-standard abc... having said

Re: [abcusers] ABC parser output data structure.

2004-07-29 Thread Wil Macaulay
suddenly makes this much more complicated. You suddenly go from one distribution to n of them :( Guy Wil Macaulay wrote: Yes, I know I _can_ access them. They are no advantage to me. My Java objects are lightweight, and the same jar file can run on any platform without requiring separate

Re: [abcusers] ANN: new version of Five Line Skink

2004-06-17 Thread Wil Macaulay
[funny, I saw Eric's reply, but not John's initial post] Eric is spot-on, the UI assumes the presence of the Swing libraries. However, most of Skink (the parser, etc) doesn't care, and the rendering logic only cares about having a Graphics2D object. Unfortunately, the development systems for

[abcusers] ANN: new version of Five Line Skink

2004-05-23 Thread Wil Macaulay
), playing (especially repeats) and parsing (especially broken rhythms). I've also improved support for pipe music layout (horizontal beams, stems down and gracenots triple beamed.) Skink is freeware. Wil Macaulay To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com

[abcusers] test message

2004-05-14 Thread Wil Macaulay
I've been getting bounces from the list (but getting messages). Let's see if this gets through.. wil To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] AlphabetSoup output data structures

2004-05-14 Thread Wil Macaulay
been lurking for a while, but following this with interest. A cautionary note here - how _would_ your parser behave on discovering it was asked to parse one of these 'illegal' constructs? I've been very busy lately loosening up Skink's parser based on discovering that there is a significant

Re: [abcusers] abc for Pocket PC

2003-09-10 Thread Wil Macaulay
can it run Java? If there is a version of J2SE 1.3 or better, I think we could get Skink running on it... wil Greg Samways wrote: Dear All, Does anybody know of a Pocket PC version of an abc application which will enable me to store, search, retrieve and playback abc tunes? I am aware of the

[abcusers] ANN: 5 Line Skink version 1.1a1

2003-08-22 Thread Wil Macaulay
- Substantially improved music rendering - option for wider staff display - bugfixes including order of grace notes vs. accidentals, highlighting on Windows XP etc - some printing fixes www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/skink.html wil macaulay To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] Re: backslashes

2003-08-14 Thread Wil Macaulay
grumble then you've got to figure out how to put the cursor in the right place after you've done all this, if the user made a mistake /grumble wil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It strikes me that there are three processes to carry out - Remove comments Combine lines Parse abc notation

Re: [abcusers] Floating voices

2003-08-01 Thread Wil Macaulay
Given Bernard's statement, and that we are proposing incompatibilities anyway, I would propose that you only use a line if you _DO_ want barlines between staves. In other words, the default is not to join staves, but you can put a line between if you want barlines. wil Bernard Hill wrote:

Re: [abcusers] Let's move on

2003-07-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
I agree with Richard wil Richard Robinson wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:19:44AM +0200, I. Oppenheim wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: Is "K:D exp _b _e ^f" different from "K:D _b _e ^f" ? Where does this come from, has it been

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
Do we lose anything if we couple this to M:none? or do we need to be able to specify both a meter (M:C comes to mind) and separately the behaviour of accidentals? Laura Conrad wrote: I don't see any discussion of the relationship between accidentals and barlines. This is important, because in

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
Strikes me that the %%MIDI directives are the equivalent of an audio stylesheet... wil Laura Conrad wrote: Wil == Wil Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wil Do we lose anything if we couple this to M:none? or do we Wil need to be able to specify Wil both a meter (M:C

Re: [abcusers] Let's move on

2003-07-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
hopefully this fixes the problem (text only, no html in netscape mailer) wil Phil Taylor wrote: Richard Robinson wrote: All Wil's messages appear in my mailer as above (though without the quote marks, you pedants) - very spaced out vertically. At least 2 0x0a newlines, sometimes more,

Re: [abcusers] ABC20-draft review

2003-07-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
The largest body of published abc is in the realm of Irish dance music, in which the roll is a well-understood term meaning 'decorate here as appropriate to your combination of instrument, region and personal aesthetic'. It will be interesting to see where the next explosion (of content, I

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps and 'extras'

2003-07-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
in addition,Chris your suggested solution would be inadvisable because it would be errror prone: //C //C and //C//C look pretty similar, but most parsers use C// as a synonym for C/4 wil John Walsh wrote: Chris Meyers writes: The one thing I'm missing is putting the slashes on the stems

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-28 Thread Wil Macaulay
I. Oppenheim wrote: Dear abcusers, I hereby publicly release the third draft revision of the ABC 2.0 standard: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html --- Due to popular demand, +...+ is now the preferred syntax for notating decorations; !...! has been deprecated, although it is

Re: [abcusers] About the choice of '!'

2003-07-21 Thread Wil Macaulay
Please don't think me rude, but I think you've missed a very large category of users completely. These are people who record large collections of tunes (admittedly, each tune is likely to be a 'simple folk melody' with or without lyrics), often in the hundreds or thousands of tunes, related by

Re: [abcusers] what's your Walshaw number?

2003-07-18 Thread Wil Macaulay
Funny thing, my 'Cathal McConnell number' and my Walshaw number were established at the same time/place - at a session at Sandy Bell's in Edinburgh. Though Cathal didn't actually play that night, IIRC, but Jack Campin did. wil John Chambers wrote: Henrik Norbeck writes: | Jack Campin wrote:

Re: [abcusers] what's your Walshaw number?

2003-07-14 Thread Wil Macaulay
have a Walshaw number of 2. That means Wil Macaulay and Richard Robinson both have Walshaw numbers no higher than 3, but perhaps they're lower by some other path. Anyone else know theirs? - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street

Re: [abcusers] A question about beams

2003-07-11 Thread Wil Macaulay
Skink does it the way you want. AFAIK, no other program will. wil Alasdair McAndrew wrote: Hi there, Suppose I have the following: K:HP M:2/2 L:1/8 defg Then there will be a single beam joining all notes, with an extra beam between the e and the f. But what I would like, rather than this

Re: [abcusers] Re: End of 2nd time bar

2003-07-11 Thread Wil Macaulay
Bernard Hill wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wil Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The problem is, that although "it's just bad abc" is literally true, there are many cases where large bodies of tunes (order of a hundred in a single file) are written i

Re: [abcusers] End of 2nd time bar

2003-07-10 Thread Wil Macaulay
For notation (display) purposes it may work, but for playback purposes you need to at least try to figure out where the user intended to finish the second ending. I look for a double barline or start of a next repeat. wil Bernard Hill wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Webber

Re: [abcusers] (..) means?

2003-07-10 Thread Wil Macaulay
Nice resource! thanks. wil I. Oppenheim wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote: But in general, you can't rely on any such details when reading music. That's true; but the point was that when notating music one should strive do it the correct way.

Re: [abcusers] End of 2nd time bar

2003-07-10 Thread Wil Macaulay
, so you need to know where the user thought the second repeat ended. Sometimes it's impossible to tell for sure, but in this case you can probably safely assume the double barline ended the first part. wil I. Oppenheim wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Wil Macaulay wrote: For notation

Re: [abcusers] Re: End of 2nd time bar

2003-07-10 Thread Wil Macaulay
The problem is, that although it's just bad abc is literally true, there are many cases where large bodies of tunes (order of a hundred in a single file) are written in this way. It comes down to why and how the tunes were notated: sometimes you want to use 'bad' notation because that's the

Re: [abcusers] Skink

2003-07-09 Thread Wil Macaulay
Many thanks for the feedback! More stuff to add to my buglist. wil I. Oppenheim wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Phil Taylor wrote: Another bug: When I clicked on close after I made some changes, I got a dialog window asking me if I really wanted to close. I then hit

Re: [abcusers] Yacc and lex

2003-07-08 Thread Wil Macaulay
I did some work with flex++ and bison to produce a basic lexer/parser for abc, along with some c++ classes. I stopped that development once I started using javacc (a recursive descent compiler-compiler) for Java, which gave me a lot more useful tools for the job. A particular problem that

Re: [abcusers] Yacc and lex

2003-07-08 Thread Wil Macaulay
I. Oppenheim wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Wil Macaulay wrote: In other words, if I want tune 57, but tunes 10, 45, 51 are broken, don't make me fix everything previous just to get tune 57. I found it reasonably straightforward to implement exception handling in Skink using

Re: [abcusers] proposal for developers: modular ABC

2003-07-07 Thread Wil Macaulay
If I'm not mistaken, you can also embed L:, M:, and K: in the tune proper, and I've seen N: and I: as well. wil Phil Taylor wrote: I.Oppenheim wrote: or perhaps better, do not allow a-g and A-G as body fields. Alas, they are in the standard. Of

RE: [abcusers] Free notation program for Windows - let's write it...

2003-07-04 Thread Wil Macaulay
A gentle reminder: Five Line Skink runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, (as long as you have Java 1.3 or better) is free (as in beer) and does (optionally) display the notes as you type. not (yet) open source, however. wil -Original Message- From: Bert Van Vreckem To: [EMAIL

Re: [abcusers] Guitar chords on a line by themselves

2003-03-11 Thread Wil Macaulay
Kludge the program. Henrik's collection is probably _the_ best collection of commonly played Irish fiddle tunes on the internet (well laid out, good tunes, good settings, well organized, accessible) and pieces of his collection have been scattered far and wide. Personally, my original goal

Re: [abcusers] multi line footer in abcm2ps

2003-02-21 Thread Wil Macaulay
um, the C field is intended for Composer - some tunes in fact do have more than one composer. wil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iabc (abc.sourceforge.net/iabc) allows multiline footers by allowing the C: field to be extended. That is, subsequent entries in the C: field will cause be centered

RE: [abcusers] online abc previewer

2003-02-09 Thread Wil Macaulay
Actually, I just built abcm2ps for Mac OSX - it compiled without any changes. However I no longer have a development system for OS 9. If anyone is interested I can make it available wilJavaScript:parent.DoCommand(send, parent.form_fr.document.mainForm) -Original Message- From: Jack

Macs and recording (was Re: [abcusers] BarFly for Mac OS X)

2003-02-04 Thread Wil Macaulay
Phil Taylor wrote: Phil Taylor writes: | I've put up a first rough beta version of BarFly Carbon, for all the | folks who've been badgering me for an OS X version. You can download | it from: http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/BarFlyCarbon.hqx Hmmm ... I'm getting more and more tempted

[abcusers] ANNOUNCE: Five Line Skink version 1.0e2

2003-01-23 Thread Wil Macaulay
A new version of 5 Line Skink, the cross-platform abc editor/viewer/player is available from http://www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/skink.html I've tried to make this one compatible with Melody Assistant's abc output, but I don't have a licenced copy, so if anybody would like to try, I'd be most

Re: [abcusers] Can anyone help!

2002-12-12 Thread Wil Macaulay
I just tried opening an Out.ps file with Acrobat Reader 5.0 on the Macintosh and on Windows with no success. I think the full version of Acrobat (Distiller) can work with postscript files, but Reader cannot. [If you have Java 1.3 or better on your machine, you can use Skink as an editor/viewer

Re: [abcusers] RE: Pocket PC player?

2002-12-10 Thread Wil Macaulay
Does the Zaurus Java support Swing? if so, Skink should run on it... although I'd probably have to tweak the interface for a small screen. wil Tom Keays wrote: Keith wrote: I seen, and heard, abc player software for Palm PDAs. Are there any out there for Pocket PC 2002 systems? I'm on this

RE: [abcusers] Laurie Griffiths : sad news

2002-11-29 Thread Wil Macaulay
Sad indeed. wil -Original Message- From: James Allwright To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/28/2002 6:52 PM Subject: [abcusers] Laurie Griffiths : sad news I have some sad news that I expect many members of this list would like to know. Laurie Griffiths was a regular contributor to the

Re: [abcusers] bar lines and lyrics

2002-11-25 Thread Wil Macaulay
Likewise for Skink, on all platforms - I hate software that tries to second-guess me... wil John Chambers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I've never seen music written without the end of a line ending a bar. But I am not a music scholar like many people on this page, so maybe its a common

Re: [abcusers]Any french from Quebec

2002-11-14 Thread Wil Macaulay
Je ne suis pas Quebecois, mais j'aime jouer cette musique! Q'avez-vous a echanger? Sauve Phil wrote: Is there any french from Quebec on the list ? Y a t-il des QuŽbŽcois sur la liste Si oui, manifestez-vous afin de constituer un groupe d'Žchange de nos tounes Phil SauvŽ

RE: [abcusers] JedABC

2002-11-04 Thread Wil Macaulay
Note that the latest version of BarFly will run quite nicely in Classic, and that Five Line Skink is OSX native (as well as any other platform with Java 1.3 or better) http://www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/skink.html wil -Original Message- From: Eduardo Gallego To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [abcusers] biab?

2002-10-01 Thread Wil Macaulay
Did a wee bit of poking around and found this http://members.rogers.com/alf0/index.htm Alf Warnock has apparently written a basic BIAB-abc translator. Never tried, so I don't know if it works... wil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any utilities capable of interconverting between abc and

Re: [abcusers] re : Skink sound, Abacus 1.0.0, and iabc

2002-07-31 Thread Wil Macaulay
Skink uses the MIDI support in the Java Media Framework for playback. At the moment it creates a sequence on the fly and creates MIDI note on/note off events on the sequence, then starts the sequencer when the tune is finished. If there are multiple tunes, it will do that for each tune.

Re: [abcusers] ABC software in reference libraries

2002-07-23 Thread Wil Macaulay
Jack, I'd be happy to let Skink be used for that purpose - it will directly open a URL (use the Fetch menu selection from the File menu). It is, however, a reasonably fully-featured text editor, so would it be necessary or desirable to disable some of that functionality? If you want to play

Re: [abcusers] ABC software in reference libraries

2002-07-23 Thread Wil Macaulay
I was thinking of anything else that might be on the public-access terminal... wil Laura Conrad wrote: Wil == Wil Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wil I'd be happy to let Skink be used for that purpose - it will directly open Wil a URL (use the Fetch menu selection from the File

Re: [abcusers] RE : tune finder

2002-07-15 Thread Wil Macaulay
Yes, it would be 'better and less misleading' for the abc user community that understands: 1. 2 sharps 2. they are in the 'standard' place 3. E Dorian means E is the tonic. Me, personally, just speaking for myself, I can play in (for example) G Dorian without having to remember which flats

Re: [abcusers] RE : tune finder

2002-07-11 Thread Wil Macaulay
It occurs to me that one of the problems I would like to solve as a user of a search engine of any kind, the tune finder being just one of them - is some indication (no matter how slight) of the quality of the result. If even a small number of content providers consistently use the Z field to

Re: [abcusers] ANNOUNCE: Five Line Skink version 1.0a6 available

2002-07-08 Thread Wil Macaulay
Hi, thanks for the feedback. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried this program again, I like the interactive nature of it, but I had some problems. Maybe I am doing something wrong. 1. The program seems to have a problem with blank lines. Pretty much any tune that I tried got an unexpected

[abcusers] ANNOUNCE: Five Line Skink version 1.0a6 available

2002-07-06 Thread Wil Macaulay
See http://www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/skink.html Version 1.0a6 July 6 2002 New Features and Bugfixes - general tuplets (p:q:r syntax supported - aligned words - w: field supported so lyrics line up with music - note lengths within grace notes are parsed (although displayed as normal

RE: [abcusers] The (illegal) sounds of silence

2002-07-04 Thread Wil Macaulay
I totally concur with you, Laurie. After all, this is clearly one of the most important test cases for abc player implementations, and a most embarrassing one to let slip through... (Skink fails, by the way. I'm red-faced.) wil -Original Message- From: Laurie (ukonline) To: [EMAIL

Re: [abcusers] Announce: Skink version 1.0a5

2002-06-20 Thread Wil Macaulay
No, it looks for ! (~[!,\n,\r])+ ! that is, two bangs with at least one non-bang in between before the end of line. ! at end-of-line should be ignored as before (although there may be issues with ! at end-of-tune, have to check that... wil Jack Campin wrote: Version 1.0a5 June 19 2002 New

Re: [abcusers] Announce: new version of Five Line Skink

2002-06-05 Thread Wil Macaulay
?) that are paid for. wil Atte Andre Jensen wrote: On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Wil Macaulay wrote: Version 1.0a4 of Five Line Skink is available - link from http://www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/abc4mac.html I tried it out, and obviously there are quite a few things missing, but you're aware

Re: [abcusers] Announce: new version of Five Line Skink

2002-06-05 Thread Wil Macaulay
Any interest in having Skink as a 'front end' for a command-line tool? in other words, use Skink to enter, proof read and proof-listen, and then invoke abcxxps for final output? wil Atte Andre Jensen wrote: On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Wil Macaulay wrote: Thanks Atte. Just out of interest, what

[abcusers] Announce: new version of Five Line Skink

2002-06-04 Thread Wil Macaulay
Version 1.0a4 of Five Line Skink is available - link from http://www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/abc4mac.html Skink runs on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Solaris - any platform with at least Java 1.2. Java 1.3 is recommended. New features: Substantially improved performance Substantially improved

[abcusers] test message - please ignore

2002-05-24 Thread Wil Macaulay
Just making sure I don't bounce wil To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Linux abc HOWTO

2002-05-09 Thread Wil Macaulay
You might mention that 5 Line Skink will run on Linux, as well as any other machine with java 1.3 or better. wil James Allwright wrote: On Thu 09 May 2002 at 01:05PM +, John Chambers wrote: Last January, James Allwright wrote: | I have written a first draft of a Linux abc HOWTO and am

Re: abc's biggest problem (was: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse)

2002-05-01 Thread Wil Macaulay
if your software supports non-printing rests (BarFly, Skink) you can write | AC4 Amx | wil Ulf wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 15:55 schrieb Atte Andre Jensen: Really? I think abc's biggest shortcomming is the fundamental of only being able to put a chord where there is a melody-note. I

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
Phil, I seem to recall that you had an alternate proposal - can you resurrect it? I'm almost at the point of implementing this in Skink, so it would be useful to have the proposals side-by-side. wil Phil Taylor wrote: John Chambers wrote: Atte wrote: | On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, John Chambers

Re: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse

2002-04-30 Thread Wil Macaulay
One thing about macroes, however, is that you don't _have_ to use them; you can fully expand the macro in the source if you want to for some reason. Your proposal doesn't fit that need, because if I _want_ to write fff (for fortissimo) in the tune, I can't distinguish it from three f notes unless

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps on a mac

2002-04-26 Thread Wil Macaulay
abc4mac uses the approach of wrapping abc2ps (and abcmidi) in a basic UI that just allows you to put up a file dialog and then invokes the main of abc2ps with the file as an argument. On OS X, you can simply compile and run from the command line. I'll put the source for abc4mac up where people

Re: [abcusers] A New BarFly

2002-04-22 Thread Wil Macaulay
It does run on OS X, but not natively (it runs in Classic, which is basically an emulator for OS 9). Unfortunately, there is a bug in Classic which causes horrible things to happen to QuickTime music, so playback is unusable. Having said that - 5 Line Skink already runs on Windows, Solaris,

Re: [abcusers] someone with old software?

2002-04-19 Thread Wil Macaulay
Displays and plays just fine in the latest version of Skink. Any unrecognized K: defaults to none - no sharps or flats. wil Jack Campin wrote: X:154 T:Zaplet Kolo O:Yugoslavia M:none L:1/8 K:none [K:D] [M:4/4] a2 f2 g2 e2|f2 d2- dgfe|f2 d2- dgfe|fg a2- agfe|[M:2/4] f2 d2:| [K:G]

[abcusers] Barfly under Classic?

2002-04-19 Thread Wil Macaulay
Just tried bringing up BarFly 1.0d30 under Classic on Mac OS X 10.1.4, with QuickTime 5.06, and discovered that it doesn't seem to play properly - notes sound as if they have a long-delay echo on them. Is this a new problem, or known? I seem to remember it working properly when I first tried it

Re: [abcusers] Barfly under Classic?

2002-04-19 Thread Wil Macaulay
bummer. Have you found a Pascal compiler for X yet? I've had no problems using Java to play MIDI, but I haven't tried QT for Java - guess I'd better get cracking on releasing the version of Skink that plays tunes... wil Phil Taylor wrote: Just tried bringing up BarFly 1.0d30 under Classic

Re: [abcusers] The virtues of handling music graphically

2002-04-12 Thread Wil Macaulay
Hi Doug, Interesting, I was just thinking about the same thing over the weekend. I've put quite a few hours of time over the last four years into 5 Line Skink, and I asked myself whether it was worth continuing, given the high quality of other packages out there. I came to a slightly

Re: [abcusers] Complex Chords in ABC

2002-04-08 Thread Wil Macaulay
Skink runs on OS X - that's what I use for development. And version 1.0 will be ready Real Soon Now (play tunes, better layout). Barfly runs on OS X under Classic. wil John Chambers wrote: Henrik Norbeck writes: | Mike Whitaker wrote: | | I need this. Exactly as notated. A chord sequence

[abcusers] ANNOUNCE: New pre-release of Skink available

2002-03-26 Thread Wil Macaulay
For those interested, I have placed a version of Five Line Skink (version 1.0a2) at http://www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/Skink.zip this is a zipped jar file, and needs to be unzipped and then invoked via java java -jar Skink.jar Note that there is no link to this file on the website, since this

Re: [abcusers] abc to PC speaker

2002-03-25 Thread Wil Macaulay
Is there a Java implementation (at least java 1.2, preferably 1.3) on these machines? if so, I have a preliminary version of Five Line Skink that will play tunes using the Java Media Framework (MIDI). If you're interested in getting a pre-release copy, drop me a line. Right now it just does

Re: [abcusers] Followup on last...

2002-03-05 Thread Wil Macaulay
Here's my two cents on this: - on input, parse the file and use it as is - do not change the file contents without the user asking you to. He may have a different favourite abc program and may be evaluating yours, and changing his file behind his back is unfriendly. If you want

[abcusers] UK list members?

2002-02-15 Thread Wil Macaulay
I'm spending a couple of weeks in Ipswich, in Suffolk - any listmembers nearby want to meet for a pint? wil To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] ties and accidentals

2002-01-31 Thread Wil Macaulay
John, you need to loosen your Goedel... By the way, Skink handles the alternate bar stuff you posted, but I have no idea what it should look like. What would you have expected? wil John Chambers wrote: Laura writes: | John == John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | John ABC's

Re: [abcusers] small nag in ABC notation?

2002-01-21 Thread Wil Macaulay
The following variation works in Skink - the inline [L:x/x] is not yet implemented. It's on the list! I've got [M: ] and [K:] so far. Note that as written, the example does not have a T: line, which is required by the 1.6 standard, and has leading space for the M, L and K which are supposed to

[abcusers] ANNOUNCE: Version 0.9c of Five Line Skink

2002-01-14 Thread Wil Macaulay
Skink version 0.9c, 8 Jan 2002 Wil Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://celticmusic.ca = Version 0.9c Jan 8 2002 New Features and Bugfixes - basic documentation - support for inline K: and M: fields ([K:D][M:3/8]) - better printing support on Solaris

Re: [abcusers] Toward abc plugins ?

2001-06-25 Thread Wil Macaulay
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[abcusers] Announce: new version of Skink

2001-06-25 Thread Wil Macaulay
for Mac OS X are supplied; the version for Mac OS 9 has not yet been updated) -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 Syndesis Ltd. 28 Fulton Way Richmond Hill, Ont Canada L4B 1J5 ... pay no attention

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

2001-06-13 Thread Wil Macaulay
/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 Syndesis Ltd. 28 Fulton Way Richmond Hill, Ont Canada L4B 1J5 ... pay no attention to the man behind

Re: [abcusers] RE: abcusers-digest V1 #501

2001-06-11 Thread Wil Macaulay
To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- End of abcusers-digest V1 #501 ** To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay

[abcusers] Skink for Mac OS X available

2001-06-06 Thread Wil Macaulay
is pretty nice...! Still only one tune at at time, though. - no functionality changes from the last release, just internal cleanup to make sure it runs under Java 1.3 - I have also mirrored the latest BarFly (1d30) wil -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice

Re: [abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #482

2001-04-23 Thread Wil Macaulay
0.00cm wordsspace 0.00cm textspace 0.10cm To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 Syndesis Ltd. 28

Re: [abcusers] Fomula for determining a half step in MgHz...

2001-04-05 Thread Wil Macaulay
: Putting live music back in the living room. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 Syndesis Ltd. 28 Fulton Way Ric

[abcusers] abc2ps 1.4

2001-04-04 Thread Wil Macaulay
. Great job, Michael! Now all I need to do is find a version of GhostVIew that runs under OS X... wil -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 Syndesis Ltd. 28 Fulton Way Richmond Hill, Ont Canada L4B 1J5

Re: [abcusers] RE: latest proposed ABC Standard

2001-03-20 Thread Wil Macaulay
es? Alan S. Watt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-469-7544 (USA) [Voice/FAX] http://www.mindspring.com/~alan.watt To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2

Re: [abcusers] Paging Wil McCauley

2001-03-19 Thread Wil Macaulay
] http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk - abc music notation tutorial and other goodies To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886

Re: [abcusers] Modes and key signatures (Was: Hi)

2001-03-06 Thread Wil Macaulay
But is there a compelling reason why we should not define "E hejaz" or "E freygish"? (in a similar manner to the definition proposed for chords) wil Frank Nordberg wrote: John Chambers wrote: One minor quibble, which deals with a marginal issue that I'd like to mention: I think the

[abcusers] Mac OSX observations

2001-02-27 Thread Wil Macaulay
of Skink in the OS X Java environment - it actually works not-half-bad, and looks really cool in the Aqua interface, though there were some oddities around the file dialogs. wil -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905

Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

2001-02-27 Thread Wil Macaulay
'Caug9' C E G# Bb D -- Mike Whitaker | Work: +44 1733 766619 | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Architext | Fax: +44 1733 348287 | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CricInfo Ltd | GSM: +44 7971 977375 | Web: http://www.cricinfo.com/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://ww

Re: [abcusers] Interpretation of accidentals

2001-02-02 Thread Wil Macaulay
t kind of ambiguity into abc. In principle, a piece of musical notation should be constructed so that any musician can play the tune correctly, regardless of whether he is familiar with that genre or not. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] developers/users

2001-01-24 Thread Wil Macaulay
by Wil Macaulay about two years ago and incorporated in the next version of BarFly (which also allows and to place the annotation to the left or right of the note head when you want to annotate a particular note in a chord). Most programs have followed suit. This is still a bodge of the guitar

Re: [abcusers] e-mailed ABC tunes

2001-01-18 Thread Wil Macaulay
point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 Syndesis Ltd. 28 Fulton Way Richmond Hill, Ont Canada L4B 1J5 "... pay no attention to the man beh

Re: [abcusers] e-mailed ABC tunes

2001-01-17 Thread Wil Macaulay
ale.abc Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Note that I used text/plain as the type, which any system should be configured to deal with. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.laymusic.org : Putti

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-05 Thread Wil Macaulay
treatments) and human-writeable. Now if we could only embed a GIF into the abc, life would be perfect (just mark up the paper and scan it in...!) wil John Chambers wrote: Laura writes: | "Frank" == Frank Nordberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Frank Wil Macaulay wrote: | Lets hav

Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-04 Thread Wil Macaulay
Falls, Minnesota, USA (507) 753-2216 http://geocities.com/jdhenckel/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 S

Re: [abcusers] ABC Home Page down/Inaccessible

2001-01-02 Thread Wil Macaulay
tly trying to enter forbidden territory! -- Chris Davidson To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email

Re: [abcusers] accidentals in ()

2000-11-17 Thread Wil Macaulay
job would be handled by the developer's own code. The trouble is, we'd spend forever arguing about the details of the intermediate format... Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EM

Re: [abcusers] Modes, democracy and benevolent(?) dictatorship

2000-10-17 Thread Wil Macaulay
ld be advised to support. I notice that nobody has answered that yet. Bob To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 S

Re: [abcusers] Strange abc2ps error

2000-10-02 Thread Wil Macaulay
ur browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Wil Macaulay email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1-(905)-886-7818 xt2253FAX: +1-(905)-886-7824 Syndesis Ltd. 28 Fulton Way Richmond Hill, Ont Canada L4B 1J5 "... pay no attention to the man behind the cu