[abcusers] Woodenflute mailing list tune archive updated

2002-02-02 Thread Steve Mansfield
The tune archive from the woodenflute mailing list has now been updated to include all postings up to the end of January - the archive now holds 499 tunes in abc format. http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk/abc/woodenflute.htm Steve Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk -

Re: [abcusers] ties and accidentals

2002-02-02 Thread John Chambers
One of those other Johns wrote: | On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, John Chambers wrote: | I have no control over what people put on their web sites, so I have a | strong incentive to use Be liberal in what you accept as a major | rule. | | I disagree, both with this rule and with the idea that you have no

Re: [abcusers] ties and accidentals

2002-02-02 Thread Laura Conrad
John == John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John It's really the ABC representation that's misleading, implying that John ties and slurs are different things. It would be better for ABC to John officially go along with the usual musical convention, and just say John

Re: [abcusers] ties and accidentals

2002-02-02 Thread jhoerr
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, John Chambers wrote: Most musicians don't understand the distinction between a tie and a slur. So you may speculate, but I doubt you have any quantifiable evidence to back that up. You could argue that there isn't really a distinction. Here is an example of the

Re: [abcusers] ties and accidentals

2002-02-02 Thread Rick Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, John Chambers wrote: Most musicians don't understand the distinction between a tie and a slur. So you may speculate, but I doubt you have any quantifiable evidence to back that up. So, to start quantifying it, I *do* know the difference.

Re: [abcusers] A question about converting abc2ps output ps to pdf

2002-02-02 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Rick Davis wrote: My question is - when I take the ps output of abc2ps and run it through ps2pdf, the resulting pdf makes the first and second ending bars into closed rectangles, the bottom part of which runs straight through the chords I have there. I don't really

Re: [abcusers] A question about converting abc2ps output ps to pdf

2002-02-02 Thread Rick Davis
Laura Conrad wrote: Rick == Rick Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rick My question is - when I take the ps output of abc2ps and run Rick it through ps2pdf, the resulting pdf makes the first and Rick second ending bars into closed rectangles, the bottom part Rick of which

Re: [abcusers] ties and accidentals

2002-02-02 Thread John Walsh
This thread keeps going on, but I have the feeling that there has been agreement for some time, and we've just forgotten it. But I've often been wrong on that score before... Here's what I think has been said: ties and slurs can't always be distinguished in printed staff

[abcusers] abc2abc crashes

2002-02-02 Thread Atte Andre Jensen
Hi, maybe it's not a big achievement, but I just made abc2abc (1.13) crash, by hitting it with this: X:1 T:Crash abc2abc with -t 2 M:4/4 L:1/4 C:Atte André Jensen K:D A#/Bz2 z2 | I don't see anything wrong in the example (do any of you?), so I think we have ourselves a bug... -- Atte To