, and musicians routinely write in corrections when they
stumble across this sort of poor or misleading notation.
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Bernard Hill wrote-
Surely by the standard
(www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/abc-draft.txt) H *is* predefined
as fermata.
But that's not the standard. That's the draft of the elusive next
standard.
I was advised by Chris Walshaw himself
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Bernard Hill wrote:
I was advised by Chris Walshaw himself that that is the current
standard and has replaced the one on the standard web site.
Cool. Thanks. First I'd heard. No mention of it on Chris's web
site (still refers
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Bernard Hill wrote-
Surely by the standard
(www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/abc
of standards is
a conflict of interests. S/he can drive the standard in the direction of
his/her own software.
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| There was a standards committee (or some similar name)
| some years ago. Don't remember who was on it, but I think it
| should
a
standard these days.
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, and it helps to use a font that can actually
display them.)
On a PC keyboard you can use the alt key, eg à is alt+0224 and á is
Ctrl+alt+a. Have a look at Character Map
(StartProgramsAccessoriesSystem ToolsCharacter Map) for the correct
sequences. Or install dual-language support.
Bernard
?
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Just no mention of how to get the \ character itself... ?
While I can't imagine it being important for too many song lyrics, I'd
guess '\\' will or at least should do
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|
| ... and what's the \?? code for £ anyway ?
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(Actually it's not: it's either 156 or 0163 :-)
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In fact in my opinion NO program should break
backward compatibility!
Hello there Bernard. We must stop meeting like this. :-)
I think the problem is more a question of *forward
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It is a very good idea to add an ABC version field to
the header, to distinguish old ABC from new ABC.
That gets my vote. And/or a change of file extension.
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and
others use it to mean a turn that there are problems. Of course you can
specify which you want with U: field but most examples I've seen don't.
I don't believe it's only the ~ which has a problem either...
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I'm in a slightly worse position, Dave. Music Publisher 5's abc
import
facility is almost at the finished stage and I don't want to undo
any
code writing!
I have made a lot of progress
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I. Oppenheim writes:
| On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
|
| Is ~ a roll or a turn?
|
| According to ABC 1.7.6, it's a roll:
Of course, a lot of people would ask What's the difference? ;-) And
a lot of arrogant
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Bernard Hill wrote:
[..] is the symbol for a chord, but I've seen +..+ also used
+...+ for chords is obsolete long, long ago.
Great. But does that mean there's no music out there with +..+?
Change of time sig (etc) can
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Is ~ a roll or a turn?
According to ABC 1.7.6, it's a roll:
$ The standard set of definitions (if you do not
$ redefine them) is:
$ U: ~ = !roll!
$ U: T = !trill!
$ U: H = !fermata!
$ U
/abcapps/index.tpl' not found
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for capturing certain types of music in computer-
and human- readable format. It may or not be read by software, it may or
may not result in output in sound or on paper. It should not be linked
intrinsically to any software either past or future.
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is going to make of it
which has not yet been told that ...; is a feature. I would suggest
something along the !...! lines - !swing 4! or !swing 0! because
presumably unrecognised !...! features are ignored by alien software.
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Music
whatsoever.
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Bernard Maybe we need a register of accepted application names/codes.
There is one on the sourceforge ABC site. It seems to be down at the
moment, so I can't post an exact
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Buddha Buck wrote:
For syntax (e.g., everything that isn't text, stick to stricty 7-bit
ASCII characters. No accents, no other funny stuff. Just straight
7-bit ASCII.
Agreed.
Bernard Hill wrote
and writing music in a text editor.
For graphical score editor (wysiwyg) and soon to support abc you can try
Music Publisher (www.muspub.com) but if open source=free then No. I have
a living to make.
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. If you don't write lyrics you'll want them for a tune
Richard title.
Or even English: The First Noël
That would be French. In English it's The First Nowell.
Or if it's a boy's name you're referring to it's Noel ;-)
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Richard Umm. Even if you only write in Spanish, French, German, Danish,
Richard Norwegian, Swedish ... you're going to want non-127 accented
Richard characters
GAG |BAG ABd|Bee e2d |BAG E3|]
the simplest???
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encourages the developer to develop code if there is no payment
to the developer?
I confess I don't understand the Linux setup *at all*.
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On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 06:43 AM, Bernard Hill wrote:
So what encourages the developer to develop code if there is no payment
to the developer?
Why are there amateur musicians who perform without being paid
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On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:43 am, Bernard Hill wrote:
So what encourages the developer to develop code if there is no payment
to the developer?
AMK mostly summarised it. I found it difficult to really understand why
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| A short remark about this. Somtimes open source is equated with
| cost free. But even if I'd produce a Qt-only version
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
As a programmer I'm very concerned about ! as a line terminator.
Now add two line terminators (presumably not illegal)
abc abc|!trill! abc abc|! abc abc |! abc abc|
According
principal for a future standard.
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Possibly we could just add a warning about this problem to
the standard (perhaps in an Implementation Suggestions
section), and suggest this approach for dealing with it.
SOunds good to me.
Bernard Hill
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I had already implemented in my upcoming abc reader as it's an
obvious omission.
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I'm not saying
there will be no errors but we are talking shareware not big software house.
I hope you are not implying that software sold by shareware methods is
not as good as that sold off-the-shelf?
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* Programming is fun.
Not when you do it for a living.
Good grief! How can you possibly do something for a living that you
don't
defined.
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!!
Good thought, Dave. You had me excited for a minute.
However users of abc2win may well (probably?) encode their abcs by hand
with a text editor.
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then it becomes
obvious why they prefer it: and the same I guess goes for many other
musicians who do not sight-read the music in normal performance.
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line maybe not being right-justified.
Does non-right justify mean the score could be
=
==
===
?
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. K:, L: and M: are much more
common, but raise the same issue.
/Henrik
Er, what's an E: field? The draft 1.7.6 knows nothing of E.
Come to think of it, what's an N: field? The draft says notes !!!
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Does abc have a separate way of notating acciaccaturas (the slashed
grace note) as opposed to the appoggiatura (unslashed)?
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I've never seen the K:HP or K:Hp implemented. Has anyone else?
(That's Highland Bagpipe: HP=no key sig but an implied key of 2 sharps,
Hp=key sig of 2 sharps + 1 natural and both force stems downwards for
the tune).
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I've come across this lately:
(excerpt)
M:4/4
2e2 e3f|e2(G2 G2)Bc|
d2f2 g2fg|e6 (3efg|\
a2a2 a3a|g2(B2 B2)Bc|d2dd c(B B2)\
What's the meaning of the parentheses when there is no number? It
doesn't seem to be a shortcut for (2 - or is it? Play 2 in the time of
2? g
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Er, what's an E: field? The draft 1.7.6 knows nothing of E.
Good point! It still appeared in V1.6, and apparently
it has rightfully been removed from V1.7.6.
So satisfy my curiosity
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Er, what's an E: field? The draft 1.7.6 knows nothing of E.
It was used in abc2mtex in order to set the note-spacing for
musicTeX. When musicTeX was replaced by musiXTeX---a much
bar and does not have a descender at the
right hand end. The only time it has 2 descenders is when it's the last
bar.
Gerou: Essential Dictionary of Music Notation.
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to implement it, it shouldn't cause any
problems. Except that some other abc tools might not
understand it.
If you dig around in the abcuser archives, you'll find some
mention of this topic.
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Bernard Hill wrote:
Er, what's an E: field? The draft 1.7.6 knows nothing of E.
The 1.6 standard says it's Elemskip. No, I don't know either.
I don't think it's meaningful anywhere except in abc2mtex.
Come to think
in
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on it.
And notationally it's not required either...
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ending each of the 1st/2nd time sections with a
repeat sign
__ __ ___
|1 ||2 ||3
|==:|==:|===|=
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, but a fermata over a barline means a pause here
and that has no meaning at the end, I suggest.
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) go at the stem end
or near.
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How do I tell where the 2nd time bar bracket ends if it is not
the
end of the piece?
Conventionally it goes for one bar and does not have a descender
at the
right hand end. The only time
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| I opened my copy of Scots Guards, flipped a few pages, and
| on page 15 I found this bar in The Inverness Gathering that
| (with L:1/16) could be written
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Hmm. I'm afraid this is very far from conventional in any
general
sense. I play music full of these things at least twice a week,
and have rarely seen one restricted to one bar
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| Some staff notation makes a distinction with different curve shapes
| for slur and tie, but you may need to read a lot of fine print to
| find
the practice of using separated notes for vocal music. It's
a bad practice that doesn't help anyone read the music.
As a singer I say hear, hear! to that!
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:49:22PM -0400, Eric Galluzzo wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 09:11, Bernard Hill wrote:
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Where does this bang thing come from? ! was always
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Ah, I remember pling! On my University maths course in the 1960s.
Along
with carrot as in A-carrot: upside down circumflex over an A.
Caret (pronounced the French way rather than like
the user there's a mistake and asks for a fix
before playing.
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John Norvell wrote:
In this line
BBe2A4 e2 :| Z ||!
what does the Z mean?
A Rest.
But I wonder if it meas a whole bar rest (uppercase) - z8 is more usual
assuming L:1/8
So is Z a new symbol for a full bar rest?
Bernard
to know what the rules are: or allow the software to
stop and ask.
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:04:32AM +0200, Guido Gonzato wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Good grief, is anyone ever going to put all this lot together? It's not
in the official standard or the draft
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Skink does it the way you want. AFAIK, no other program will.
Music Publisher does... soon to have abc import and export.
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confused (read:an impossible or ambiguous instruction) and then stops.
For both programs, correct the music and they're happy. Isn't this a
completely reasonable way to carry on?
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Does abc have a separate way of notating acciaccaturas (the slashed
grace note) as opposed to the appoggiatura (unslashed)?
I think it exists only
...
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shown with no keysig and accidentals in front of every note
instead.
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Bernard Hill writes:
Surely a performer wants to know what the writer meant? And lack of
repeat starts means there is no information as to how the tune was
to be played, eg whether the whole tune repeated or just
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On Tuesday 15 July 2003 8:05 pm, Bernard Hill wrote:
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Note that different lengths on grace notes are also handled by abcm2ps.
For compatibility
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on one line is legal?
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Anyway, here's an example:
T:title
W:music by ...
W:words by ...
N:sources, discography
) combination, but I don't think this will
work on Windoze or Mac systems.
Why shouldn't it?
Frank Nordberg
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Er, why *should* it?
And in fact it doesn't on Windows unless the program has been explicitly
written to recognise these keystrokes.
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, but it could go in C:, A:, D: or B: as well.
As long as you realise that (C) is not a copyright sign legally. The
situation varies in different countries: some insist on © and some on
the word Copyright which is why you sometimes see
Copyright © Bernard Hill, 2003
etc
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or another completely new one should be used.
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. This would enable different writer to use either convention
for future abc files as they wish.
Seconded.
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tentatively calls for the use of ! for this purpose.
Probably because it wasn't in 1.x...
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always use another one.
What I want is an unambiguous definition of what a legal file may
contain: *that* is the standard!
You tell 'em, Dave :-)
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the UK inch had previously been been equal to 2.54muttermuttermutter cm,
2.539998
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also taught decimetres, dekametres, hectametres, centigrams,
decigrams etc etc alongside centimetres.
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But if you measure it in, say, attoparsecs,
this is the definition of a parsec (and of the atto- prefix).
Love it! 1 attoparsec is approx 3.1cm or 1.2 ... as everyone knows g
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thoughts?
Arent
[5] software developers
I don't expect to *use* abc format in anger as it's not where I am
musically, but I expect to understand it and serve others as I write abc
interfaces to my software.
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upwards. In ensemble I have a top G and in solo work an F.
(Haydn St Nicholas mass has a low Eb and then 2 bars later a top G for
the undivided basses (!))
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a broader term in
dancing, and it seems reasonable that barlines should divide the music
into bars, not measures :-)
Bernard Hill
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Author of Music Publisher system
Music Software written by musicians for musicians
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Selkirk, Scotland
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Chambers
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Bernard Hill writes:
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| But if you measure it in, say, attoparsecs,
| this is the definition of a parsec (and of the atto- prefix).
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
not to speak of hemisemidemiquavers
It's actually hemidemisemiquavers.
But my Australian customers explicly told me they use hdsqs.
And 1/128th notes are semihemidemisemiquavers
You
) is not sufficient.
Bernard Hill
Braeburn Software
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http://www.braeburn.co.uk
Selkirk, Scotland
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and y? Paragraph marker §?
(e) is cedilla C really to be \ c space c? Why not \c?
Bernard Hill
Braeburn Software
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Music Software written by musicians for musicians
http://www.braeburn.co.uk
Selkirk, Scotland
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Hill
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After a week away I'm reading the draft 2.0.0.
Doubtless I will have other comments which I will make but simply the
special characters:
(a) I presume the list is not exhaustive. ie É (Capital E acute) and the
like
(b) I think
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], I. Oppenheim
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
(a) I presume the list is not exhaustive. ie É (Capital E acute) and the
The table only gives a number of examples for each
class of supported accents.
(b) I think we need a copyright
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arent Storm
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not to speak of hemisemidemiquavers
It's actually hemidemisemiquavers.
But my Australian customers explicly told me they use hdsqs.
And 1/128th notes are semihemidemisemiquavers
You
I'm not versatile enough, it seems to me that a passage such as
Dotted Half A Quarter A --- stems up
Half F Half F--- stems down
cannot be notated in abc as [] notation.
Bernard Hill
Braeburn Software
Author of Music Publisher system
other. Example:
A2 E2 G2 A2|A B c d e f g a A A A A A A A A A G F E
D C B, A,|]
So what does that mean?
Bernard Hill
Braeburn Software
Author of Music Publisher system
Music Software written by musicians for musicians
http://www.braeburn.co.uk
Selkirk, Scotland
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