[abcusers] Re : Abacus 1.0.0 launch

2002-08-03 Thread Bryancreer
Jack Campi wrote - This is a very good idea, but the semantics I'd need in every instance where I've wanted it would be that the *shortest* note counts. So Eric wants longest note counts, Jack wants shortest note counts, I went for highest note counts and suggested first note counts

[abcusers] re : Abacus 1.0.0

2002-08-03 Thread Forgeot Eric
- I didn't managed to print scores with my HP DeskJet 520 Printer. It works OK on my Epson Stylus 440. I'll try it on other printers to check this... I can't see the point of taking up valuable space on the screen for something you aren't using all the time. But for browsing several tunes

[abcusers] re : suggestions for [A4A2] notation

2002-08-03 Thread Forgeot Eric
Bryan Creer : I've gone for highest note prevails in the counting of the times so you can do things like - X:1 T:The Cotillion C:Trad (Bosham Band) M:4/4 L:1/8 K:G [G4D4][d4B,4]|[B2D4]AB [G2B,4]AB|[c2E4]B2[A2D4]G2|[FD4]GAF [D3A,3]D| I've seen that Skink happily supports this notation too.

Re: [abcusers] re : suggestions for [A4A2] notation

2002-08-03 Thread Phil Taylor
Bryan Creer : I've gone for highest note prevails in the counting of the times so you can do things like - X:1 T:The Cotillion C:Trad (Bosham Band) M:4/4 L:1/8 K:G [G4D4][d4B,4]|[B2D4]AB [G2B,4]AB|[c2E4]B2[A2D4]G2|[FD4]GAF [D3A,3]D| The trouble with this is that there are an awful lot of

[abcusers] Re : suggestions for [A4A2] notation

2002-08-03 Thread Bryancreer
Phil Taylor wrote - BarFly handles chords with notes of unequal length by padding out the shorter notes with rests when playing, so it's longest note prevails. But Jack Campin (a BarFly user) had said - but the semantics I'd need in every instance where I've wanted it would be that the

[abcusers] Re : Abacus 1.0.0 launch

2002-08-03 Thread Bryancreer
Wil Macaulay wrote - BTW, Abacus worked pretty well for me, except that it crashed when I tried to change instruments (WinNT wkstation 4.0) running as a non-admin user. Would this be Runtime error 70? This seems to happen on every version of Windows except 98. I think I've fixed it but I

Re: [abcusers] Re : Abacus 1.0.0

2002-08-03 Thread Jack Campin
I can't see the point of taking up valuable space on the screen for something you aren't using all the time. But for browsing several tunes it could be usefull. Maybe if this subwindow would stay on top and doesn't disappear if we load a tune (so we could move it at a corner of the screen),