Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Walsh
Wil Macaulay writes: --- Due to popular demand, +...+ is now the preferred syntax for notating decorations; !...! has been deprecated, although it is still allowed. I thought ** was proposed? although deprecated, ++ is still around as an alternate to [...] for chords. In

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:15:14PM -0700, John Walsh wrote: Wil Macaulay writes: --- Due to popular demand, +...+ is now the preferred syntax for notating decorations; !...! has been deprecated, although it is still allowed. I thought ** was proposed? although deprecated, ++

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bert Van Vreckem
Bernard Hill wrote: 2. What's a roll (+roll+ in the decorations)? I've checked 6 music dictionaries and books on notation and the only rolls mentioned are for timpani or other percussion and notated as either tr or a tremolo. It is used at least in Irish music as a general ornamentation mark. I've

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: 1. In the table of ABC fields and their usage you have U:user defined still saying !trill! rather than +trill+ Fixed. 2. In the section O: origin the separator is miss-spelled. Fixed. 3. Shouldn't +..+ be deprecated for chords? It has been deprecated

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bert Van Vreckem
Bernard Hill wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bert Van Vreckem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bernard Hill wrote: 2. What's a roll (+roll+ in the decorations)? I've checked 6 music dictionaries and books on notation and the only rolls mentioned are for timpani or other percussion and notated as

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bert Van Vreckem
I. Oppenheim wrote: I hereby publicly release the third draft revision of the ABC 2.0 standard: snip Please help me with identifying the errors and the mistakes in the draft. First of all: Guido, Irwin: well done! 1. Information Fields section: can the additional notes on fields be put in

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:55:54PM +0200, I. Oppenheim wrote: Please help me with identifying the errors and the mistakes in the draft. 1) It starts by saying The ABC standard itself deals only with structured, high-level information; how this information should be actually rendered by e.g. a

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:26:09PM +0200, Bert Van Vreckem wrote: Bernard Hill wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bert Van Vreckem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bernard Hill wrote: 2. What's a roll (+roll+ in the decorations)? I've checked 6 music dictionaries and books on notation and the

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:41:39AM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: Strange key sigs such as the above (while clear in intent) are very non-standard. Are they really necessary? I've never played from one and would actually find it very difficult to play _b ^f See

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:55:54PM +0200, I. Oppenheim wrote: Please help me with identifying the errors and the mistakes in the draft. Order of ABC constructs should include all possibilities. Tuplets are missing, for example. I suggest structuring this list - like, spell out the ordering

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: 5. No mention of midline What do you mean? Sorry, I abandoned a comment and forgot to complete it. I am thinking of the midline field in Clefs. I'm not sure what you mean. [K: clef=bass] or [K: bass] is legal. I should have said non-Multiple

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Richard Robinson wrote: It then goes on to state where each field will be printed. This is at least inconsistent, and I don't think this is the right place for this level of detail. Note that it says: Note that is only indicative, users may change the formatting by

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:41:39AM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: Strange key sigs such as the above (while clear in intent) are very non-standard. Are they really necessary? I've never played from one and would actually

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: 5. No mention of midline What do you mean? Sorry, I abandoned a comment and forgot to complete it. I am thinking of the midline field in Clefs. I'm not sure what you mean. [K:

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Bert Van Vreckem writes: | | 2. Note lengths: seems to be incomplete. There's no mention of things | like A3/2, only in the broken rhythm example. A3/2 should obviously be | parsed, but how far should an abc program go? Is A1531/3001 valid or | not? Best to clarify this and define what's legal and

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: [K: clef=bass] or [K: bass] is legal. Is it? I couldn't find it. Anyway the midline field attempted to define the middle line of say the bass clef as D or D, to avoid too many leger lines. I never liked it anyway so glad it's gone. It's not gone!

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | There are to supported syntaxes: | [A] K:tonicmode accidentals | [B] K:tonic accidentals | | Syntax A will _modify_ the key signature of the mode | given, rather than simply append accidentals to it. |

[abcusers] Re: ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bryancreer
K:A_b^f^c shouldn't that have a G# also since you've written K:A? and a lot of other stuff around the same subject. Perhaps it's time to plug my idea of - K:_b^f^c tonic=A mode=whatever Completely unambiguous. Talking of which, are there any plans for a procedure for amendments or

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes There are to supported syntaxes: [A] K:tonicmode accidentals [B] K:tonic accidentals This is actually a bit counterintuitive, since K:D means D major (= 2 sharps) while K:D ^f means D mix (= 1 sharp) Not that there are many tunes about currently which use global

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson writes: | On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:15:54PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: | | And from the abc source you have written | | K:A_b^f^c | | shouldn't that have a G# also since you've written K:A? | | It definitely shouldn't have a G#, since the Gs aren't sharp. | | It's

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:03:23PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes There are to supported syntaxes: [A] K:tonicmode accidentals [B] K:tonic accidentals This is actually a bit counterintuitive, since K:D means D major (= 2 sharps) while K:D ^f means D mix (=

Re: [abcusers]ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Laura Conrad
John == John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Next you'll be telling us that Britney Spears is a musician ... Does she follow standards? -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 To

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:17:52PM +, John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson writes: | On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:15:54PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: | | And from the abc source you have written | | K:A_b^f^c | | shouldn't that have a G# also since you've written K:A? | | It

Re: [abcusers] Cattle

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Phil Taylor writes: | John Chambers wrote: | | (One textbook example for English is the lack of any word that is the | singular form of cattle. Other languages have such words, and they | can't be translated to English with a single word. But you aren't | going to fix the English language;

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

2003-07-29 Thread Ray Davies
Eric wrote So this way, by allowing !, !...! and *=!, everyone would be happy, and I don't know the reason why this thread lasts so long. The reason the thread is lasting so long is that not everyone would be happy with this. The use of abc for printing classical etc music is fairly recent and

[abcusers] Re: ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread DavBarnert
Bernard wrote- 2. |: at the beginning of a section is not ugly. And I do not like being forced to accept incorrect notation in that if a |: is missing then the repeat should be made from the previous double bar. But it *is* ugly at the beginning of a piece. Apparently, Beethoven agreed. Open

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson writes: | The only solution would be to write this: |K:Ephr^G | | Or K:E=f=c^G=d ? Longer, but maybe clearer. Actually, I do include accidentals with this scale at times. The main reason is that with: K:E^g many musicians will not notice the subtle positioning of the

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:12:38PM +, John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson writes: | The only solution would be to write this: |K:Ephr^G | | Or K:E=f=c^G=d ? Longer, but maybe clearer. Actually, I do include accidentals with this scale at times. The main reason is that with:

Re: [abcusers]ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
David Barnert wrote: | Bernard wrote- | | 2. |: at the beginning of a section is not ugly. And I do | not like being forced to accept incorrect notation in that | if a |: is missing then the repeat should be made from the | previous double bar. | | But it *is* ugly at the beginning of a piece.

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If I had my druthers, I'd put a rule in saying that beginnings of repeated sections *must* be marked properly. But of course that's dreaming yet another impossible dream. Well in Music Publisher it refuses to play the

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Or K:E=f=c^G=d ? Longer, but maybe clearer. K:C ^g looks fine to me. Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk,

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes And from the abc source you have written K:A_b^f^c shouldn't that have a G# also since you've written K:A? It definitely shouldn't have a G#, since the Gs aren't sharp. So you are saying that K:A has 3 sharps K:A

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Actually, I've seen music with nested repeats that work exactly like parentheses. I've even used this on occasion myself. Granted, most musicians have probably never seen this. But I've found that it doesn't even take

Re: [abcusers] Cattle

2003-07-29 Thread Tom Keays
on 7/29/03 11:03 AM, Phil Taylor wrote: The singular of cattle is cow. [...] I referred to bull semen at one point and my supervisor (himself a world expert in the field of Reproductive Biology) wanted it changed to cow semen. I saw a man milk a bull, fie, man, fie. I saw a man milk a bull,

Re: [abcusers] Re: ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bernard wrote- 2. |: at the beginning of a section is not ugly. And I do not like being forced to accept incorrect notation in that if a |: is missing then the repeat should be made from the previous double bar. But it *is* ugly at the

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bert Van Vreckem wrote: That all said, I don't think I've ever actually *seen* any Irish music with a roll ornament actually placed (didn't even know there was a symbol for it until I read this thread...) -- as I said before,

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:11:44PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes And from the abc source you have written K:A_b^f^c shouldn't that have a G# also since you've written K:A? It definitely shouldn't have a G#,

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | | If I had my druthers, I'd put a rule in saying that beginnings of | repeated sections *must* be marked properly. But of course that's | dreaming yet another impossible dream. | | Well in Music

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | | Or K:E=f=c^G=d ? Longer, but maybe clearer. | | K:C ^g looks fine to me. Well, it looks fine, but it has the wrong tonic. This doesn't matter on paper. But there are those of us who take

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | | If I had my druthers, I'd put a rule in saying that beginnings of | repeated sections *must* be marked properly. But of

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
| In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson | | K:A_b^f^c | shouldn't that have a G# also since you've written K:A? | | It definitely shouldn't have a G#, since the Gs aren't sharp. | | So you are saying that | | K:A has 3 sharps | | K:A _b has no sharps and one flat instead? | | This is

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:20:26PM +, John Chambers wrote: Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | | Or K:E=f=c^G=d ? Longer, but maybe clearer. | | K:C ^g looks fine to me. Well, it looks fine, but it has the wrong

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:11:44PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes And from the abc source you have written K:A_b^f^c shouldn't that have a G#

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:23:26PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | | If I had my druthers, I'd put a rule in saying that

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Bernard Hill writes: | My suggestion is that accidentals are in lower case, keys in upper. And | if the key name is missing then C is assumed. | | K:A ^b is F# C# G# and Bb. | K:A =c is F# and G# | K:_b^f is Bb and F# | | K:_b is Bb | K:C _b | K:F | | and the last 3 are equivalent of course. No,

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson | | K:A_b^f^c | shouldn't that have a G# also since you've written K:A? | | It definitely shouldn't have a G#, since the Gs aren't sharp. | | So you are saying that | | K:A

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:26:21PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson Now I don't really mind having minor keys as they are well established, and maybe even the modes Very tolerant of you ;) Well

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:32:51PM +, John Chambers wrote: It's quite logical. K:A has a tonic but no scale information, so we assume major (^f^c^g). K:Amix has a tonic and a mode; the signature is ^f^c. K:A_B has a tonic and a key signature, which is _B K:_Bhas no

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson writes: | | Of course, such searches are always prone to failure | because people just give the wrong key. It's common to see | K:G for tunes in E minor or A dorian. There's not a lot we | can do about this except try to educate people. | | If I had them locally (the

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Arent Storm
From: I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III They are non standard in Western music, but you will find something like [K:D _b _e ^f] often in e.g. Klezmer (Ahavoh Rabboh) or Arabic music

[abcusers] Re: ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bryancreer
John Chambers wrote - Bryan Creer writes: | Talking of which, are there any plans for a procedure for amendments or | extensions to the standard or do we just stick to the implement your favourite idea | and argue about it afterwards system we have now? What a concept!  This is a gang of

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Arent Storm
- Original Message - From: John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III Bernard Hill writes: While it is indeed common practice to omit begin-repeat symbols, this is not a nice

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Arent Storm writes: | From: I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | They are non standard in Western music, but you will | find something like [K:D _b _e ^f] often in e.g. | Klezmer (Ahavoh Rabboh) or Arabic music (Maqam Hedjaz). | | My first thing will always be to remove any non standard |

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson writes: | On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:32:51PM +, John Chambers wrote: | | K:_Bhas no tonic, but a signature, which is _B. Maybe it's F or Dm. | | This last has the potential to be misunderstood, I think. The key | signature would be | K:Bb ? | | Easy to mis-type, or

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:42:32PM +0200, Arent Storm wrote: From: I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are non standard in Western music, but you will find something like [K:D _b _e ^f] often in e.g. Klezmer (Ahavoh Rabboh) or Arabic music (Maqam Hedjaz). My first thing will always be

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:19:17PM +, John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson writes: | On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:32:51PM +, John Chambers wrote: | | K:_Bhas no tonic, but a signature, which is _B. Maybe it's F or Dm. | | This last has the potential to be misunderstood, I

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Arent Storm
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:42:32PM +0200, Arent Storm wrote: They are non standard in Western music, but you will find something like [K:D _b _e ^f] often in e.g. Klezmer (Ahavoh Rabboh) or Arabic music (Maqam Hedjaz). My first thing will always be to remove any non standard

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:07:16PM +, John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson writes: | | Of course, such searches are always prone to failure | because people just give the wrong key. It's common to see | K:G for tunes in E minor or A dorian. There's not a lot we | can do

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Taylor
Richard Robinson wrote: K:_Bhas no tonic, but a signature, which is _B. Maybe it's F or Dm. This last has the potential to be misunderstood, I think. The key signature would be K:Bb ? Easy to mis-type, or misunderstand. You will find sevral examples of this in the Village Music Project.

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson writes: | | Of course, such searches are always prone to failure | because people just give the wrong key. It's common to see | K:G for tunes in E minor or A dorian. There's not a lot we | can do about this except try to educate people. | | If I

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson | See http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/gettune/0c54.html | | (And why sharpen the fs in stave 5?) I looked at this, and decided that I don't know the tune. Staff 5, which is in D major, sounds just find. If I

[abcusers] Changelog of ABC 2.0

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
Dear Abcusers, Thank you for your feedback. Based on your input (both on and off-list) I have made the following modifications to the standard. -- The debated section on Key sigs reads now as follows: By specifying K:none, it is possible to use no key signature at all. The key signatures may

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Phil Taylor writes: | Richard Robinson wrote: | | K:_Bhas no tonic, but a signature, which is _B. Maybe it's F or Dm. | | This last has the potential to be misunderstood, I think. The key | signature would be | K:Bb ? | | Easy to mis-type, or misunderstand. | | You will find sevral

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Arent Storm wrote: For the church-modes part I agree, the explicit accidental signature will confuse anyone trying to play the music from paper (except for the authors band perhaps) Klezmer musicians all use explicit key sigs, and so do musicologists. In fact, it are

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Phil Taylor writes: | John Chambers wrote: | | K:?Adorian | | Implementing this would be easy for most abc software: Just | ignore the '?'. | | Unnecessary. You can already write: | | K: Adorian %? | | but nobody does. People who get the mode wrong are mostly | not aware of their errors, and

Re: [abcusers] Changelog of ABC 2.0

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
I've now also updated the ties and slurs section of http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html to give PNG examples of nested slurs. Please have a look to see if you can agree. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:32:51PM +, John Chambers wrote: It's quite logical. K:A has a tonic but no scale information, so we assume major (^f^c^g). K:Amix has a tonic and a mode; the signature is ^f^c.

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Bernard Hill writes: | My suggestion is that accidentals are in lower case, keys in upper. And | if the key name is missing then C is assumed. | | K:A ^b is F# C# G# and Bb. | K:A =c is F# and G# | K:_b^f is Bb and F# | | K:_b

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Bernard Hill
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Arent Storm writes: | From: I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | They are non standard in Western music, but you will | find something like [K:D _b _e ^f] often in e.g. | Klezmer (Ahavoh Rabboh) or Arabic music (Maqam Hedjaz). |

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | No, the accidentals should be case sensitive. I might not care about | this, personally, but I've seen the explanations. When the topic has | come up in the past, several people have pointed out that

[abcusers] N-times repeats

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
I. Oppenheim writes: | I've now also updated the ties and slurs section of | http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html | to give PNG examples of nested slurs. | Please have a look to see if you can agree. It's getting to look better and better. One thing I noticed missing: The repeat

Re: [abcusers] N-times repeats

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote: I. Oppenheim writes: | I've now also updated the ties and slurs section of | http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html | to give PNG examples of nested slurs. | Please have a look to see if you can agree. It's getting to look better and

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:58:42PM +0200, Arent Storm wrote: If there are people who use ABC, or are considering using ABC, for music where non-standard signatures are less non-standard, they might make the same discovery. For the church-modes part I agree, the explicit accidental

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:47:27PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: John Chambers wrote: that it would be nice if a transcriber could write something like: K:?Adorian This would mean that the transcriber is guessing the key. The software would just ignore the '?', of course, and

[abcusers] BarFly update

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Taylor
A couple of bugs have shown up in the recent BarFly release: Under OS X only, when printing at high magnification part of the tune title gets blanked out. Under some circumstances all versions may hang, displaying an Unknown System Error message which cannot be cancelled. Version 1.41 fixes

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
| In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | The best comparison I've seen is: Suppose you were to find | a piece of music written with two sharps (^f^c), and as you | played it, you realized that every G had a sharp added, and | it really was in A major. You'd

Re: [abcusers] N-times repeats

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
I. Oppenheim writes: | On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote: | | |:: ... ::| % Play this three times. | |::: ... :::| % Play this four times. | | These are already in the standard: | | | By extension, |:: and ::| mean the start and end of a | section that is to be repeated three

Re: [abcusers] Changelog of ABC 2.0

2003-07-29 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:08:13PM +0200, I. Oppenheim wrote: -- The debated section on Key sigs reads now as follows: ... The key signatures may be modified by adding accidentals, according to the format K:tonic mode accidentals. For example, K:D Phr ^f would give a key signature with

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: Bernard Hill writes: | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | No, the accidentals should be case sensitive. I might not care about | this, personally, but I've seen the explanations. When the topic has | come up in the past, several people

Re: [abcusers] Changelog of ABC 2.0

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson writes: | What about the cases where notes in different octaves | have different accidentals ? I don't see why notes in the key | signature couldn't take the full normal ABC value, with uppercase | and lowercase and , and ' as necessary, so that somebody could | express a key

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Chambers
Phil Taylor writes: | John Chambers wrote: | | The K:D=C_E_B^c example has a natural on the C line (below the | staff), flats on the E and B lines, and a sharp on the c line. It | might be better to put them in a different order; I just expressed it | that way to make the scale clear.

Re: [abcusers] Changelog of ABC 2.0

2003-07-29 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Richard Robinson wrote: What about the cases where notes in different octaves have different accidentals ? I personally think that the explicit key signature scheme as it is currently defined in the standard is already quite complex. Making distinction between the octave

Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III

2003-07-29 Thread John Walsh
About rolls in Irish music: ...used more in fiddle or pipe music. Well it's not known in pipe music. They use a particular form of embellishment known generically as a doubling and it takes many forms, which are written out. Depends on the pipes. They're used a lot for uilleann pipes,

[abcusers] Changing !..! to *..* or $..$ or ?..? or...

2003-07-29 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Ray Davies wrote: be encouraged but not if it messes up the abc of the original folk users. I vote to change the !--! usage to *--* or some other unused symbol. good. Since breaking backwards compatibility with thousands of tunes is apparently no longer a problem, I vote