Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general

2002-06-22 Thread Phil Taylor
Forgeot Eric wrote: Here is what a normal user can expect from a software (especially music / abc related). It's only my preferences and several users would not understand my wishes but it may help nevertheless. It's not about display / hearing abc, but it's about program conveniences and file

Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general

2002-06-22 Thread Laurie (ukonline)
Interesting. The thing that has bothered me for a long time is whether being able to have files dropped on you is worth a megabyte of download time. When I built Muse I avoided MFC because the instant you touch it the file size goes up by a megabyte (it may be more). Now it may be possible to

Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general

2002-06-22 Thread Laurie (ukonline)
| - add keyboard shortcuts for every command (or for the most used | at least) | | Yes, although with over 100 menu commands there aren't enough | keys to go round. I think I counted that Muse has about 70 shortcuts defined (so there's heavy use of Ctrl+this and Shift+that). It would be a very

Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general

2002-06-22 Thread Jack Campin
Here is what a normal user can expect from a software (especially music / abc related). - open files with drag and drop (for windows, but maybe for other O/S too) - when you open file from the dialog box (file...open... etc.), give the choice in the file type filter to choose other

[abcusers] re : Broken rhythms / triplet rhythms

2002-06-22 Thread Forgeot Eric
Here's your example with general tuplets thank you very much Frank ! I didn't know this feature because it's not in the abc-draft 1.7.6 but in the standard-propose.txt so I missed it. It's not really quicker to write than my notation with slurs (sorry, ties... ;) ) but it had the advantage to

Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general

2002-06-22 Thread Laurie (ukonline)
From: Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED] !snip ! !Here are a few more application-level things that might make life !easier: !We need: ! * transposition (which understands the mode of what's being ! transposed) ! !snip Why does transposition need to understand the mode? Am I missing

Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general

2002-06-22 Thread Laura Conrad
laurie == laurie griffiths Laurie writes: laurie Why does transposition need to understand the mode? Currently, the abc2midi transposer only understands the key signature. So if I have a piece in D dorian, and I transpose it up 3 half notes, the transposed output is in Ab. It should be

Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general

2002-06-22 Thread Rick Davis
Laura Conrad wrote: laurie == laurie griffiths Laurie writes: laurie Why does transposition need to understand the mode? Currently, the abc2midi transposer only understands the key signature. So if I have a piece in D dorian, and I transpose it up 3 half notes, the transposed output

Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general

2002-06-22 Thread Rick Davis
Laura Conrad wrote: laurie == laurie griffiths Laurie writes: laurie Why does transposition need to understand the mode? Currently, the abc2midi transposer only understands the key signature. So if I have a piece in D dorian, and I transpose it up 3 half notes, the transposed output