r particular problem with "xx - _", perhaps it is
time to write some gawk scripts to change - to \- or hack abc2ps
to give you nicer output, or maybe both.
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from the chords.
I do not have such a utility, but if you want one and are prepared to do
a bit of C coding, a good bet might be to modify abc2abc to do this.
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ghostview a dis-service. I'm pretty sure there are
versions with setup program for the benefit of Windowers.
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. It seems to have gotten flakey some time back, with no response
in most attempts. Anyone know what happened to it?
perun does seem to be down a lot. However, I've moved all the tunes to
the ABC project website at sourceforge, so everything can be accessed
from there.
James Allwright
the time units so that it
will work on MIDI from a live player without the player having to play to a
computer-generated beat. Sometimes midi2abc guesses the wrong time unit,
but often it will get it right.
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On Sat 07 Oct 2000 at 02:04PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote:
2. A script for halving and doubling the note values.
abc2abc will do this (as long as you have a fairly recent version).
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nefeed character to be included directly
in the PostScript - probably not what you want. The syntax recognized
by yaps and abc2midi is a semi-colon.
e.g. "G;Em"
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ambiguity. Does K:^f mean
sharpen the f in every octave or sharpen the f in just one octave ?
I usually make the assumption that an accidental in the key signature
applies to every octave, which rules out notation such as K:^f =F
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of telling where the tuple starts and where it ends. This is
what the above notation is for. If the notes are beamed together, then
all you really need is the number. It would probably be fairly easy to
give abc2ps an option which selects the above notation for all tuples.
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ice number, which
is where the complication arises. Could we all agree on this first
bit ? Simple parsers can then just ignore extra fields.
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ng program. abc2midi sharpens the second C,
which is the correct behaviour according to standard musical
interpretation.
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to be contiguous (Laura's post);
this restriction did exist in early versions of abc2midi, but the current
version should allow non-contiguous voice numbers.
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reader
to work out what is going on.
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voice if they appear in the body of the
tune.
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, then
we know that something has gone wrong and any good abc program should
report an error.
The "global mode" will continue until a V: field introduces a new voice,
or there is music with no preceding V: field, which is treated as V:1
by default.
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written
would come out monophonic, though sometimes using voice 1 and
sometimes using voice 2. The purpose of V:SYNC is to mark the end
of a polyphonic section, so I think your example should be
V:1
abc abc abc abc
V:2
def def def de
V:SYNC
V:1
dead dead dead
V:2
face face face
V:SYNC
James
if an ! is at the end of a line
or not.
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already recognizes !...! for !p! !pp! !fff! in abc2midi and !coda!
and !segno! in yaps.
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if they
don't want us to use P:.
Isn't this what "_Tune name" does ?
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used here. My parser (for yaps and abc2midi) implements
global accidentals with spaces between them, but these modify the key
signature rather than the every individual note. Is this what is being
proposed ?
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note
yaps comes up with an error message and no output at all
yaps seems to be handling the grace note just fine for me. The error
message is complaining about A z. Have another look for the
output file.
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into abc2midi. You can define "/A" according to taste to make
abc2midi understand it, but you will need to do this for all the different
slash chords that you have.
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omeone got a description of what abc2midi does?
Go to http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/ and follow the link
for abcguide.txt.
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2. Work out the root note and either print root at an appropriate
place for a typesetting program or something else appropriate for a player
program.
e.g.
K:C ^b _f mode=hejaz
will check to see if you really have specified hejaz mode.
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anage perfectly well without
it, so it seems a little unreasonable to force a full knowledge of modes
onto anyone who wants to read abc.
I hope I haven't stirred up too much of the religous ferver that this topic
always seems to invite.
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I have just uploaded a new version of abc2midi which supports the "G/B"
type notation to do inverted chords and chords with added bass notes.
If you use this notation, please try it out and let me know whether it
does what you expect.
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I have just added support for printing breves (which I assume the Americans
call double notes) to yaps. The original abc2ps did not support this, so
yaps didn't either (and presumably all the other abc2ps clones).
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On Tue 12 Jun 2001 at 06:35AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James The cc construct is a problem because it is notated as a
James 3:1 ratio but played as a 2:1 ratio.
Played by whom? Does the standard document this?
Played
that abc2midi is intended chiefly to produce playable MIDI files, not
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For all those plagued by the 2:1 ratio, help is at hand !
I have just uploaded a new version of abc2midi with a %%MIDI ratio command
which controls how and are played.
I blame it all on being allowed to learn hornpipes at an impressionable
age in my musical upbringing.
James Allwright
to a novice like me!
Not only do I not know this, I also don't believe it.
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quite a bit of analysis. It might be possible
to write a utility to do the job in a day or so, but I've never felt
the urge to write one, and I've never come across a utility to do it.
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, !text! was introduced by me into yaps and abc2midi. I use
it for !coda! and !segno! special symbols in yaps and volume control
!ff! !p! and so on in abc2midi. It is really just a way of adding
new features (such as typographical characters) in a structured fashion.
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favourite image viewer. Perhaps we need someone to write a noddy
front-end that invokes an abc2ps clone, ghostscript and then an image
viewer to bring free abc typesetting to the masses.
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have any special
support for it. If you want that, you might try MINGW, which is
a port of DJGPP:
http://www.mingw.org/
Cheers,
James Allwright
On Mon 09 Jul 2001 at 10:26AM +0100, flos wrote:
Right, where do I get a C compiler for Windows 98 SE?
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I'd be interested to know what makes lilypond so much better than the
abc2ps clones. Is it some killer feature or just an accumulation of
little features that lilypond does or does better ?
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symbols is two-fold :
1. It only allows us 19 different symbols.
2. A single character is much more cryptic than a name enclosed in ! !
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@ @, but this seems a bit ugly to me.
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as the words above the staff, right?
I have recently added an option that lets yaps place
acompaniment chords below the stave instead of above
it. I invented some abc2ps-like syntax for this, since
I couldn't find an abc2ps switch.
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and then put your extension in e.g.
X:5 fastpolkas.abc abc.sourceforge.net
With a bit of luck, most software will read the number 5 and then ignore
the rest of the line.
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This is not really practical since H is already used by some programs
to indicate a fermata.
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projects to work on, has so far kept me from thinking very
seriously about trying to support it.
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Looks interesting, where do I find it ?
James
On Mon 01 Oct 2001 at 12:44PM +0200, Guido Gonzato wrote:
Hello,
I have released abcpp, a preprocessor for ABC files.
abcpp is a simple yet powerful preprocessor designed for, but not limited
to, ABC music files. I wrote it for two reasons:
not be quite correct).
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way to do it is using ties, so
there will be clever software that gets you back to D-[DA]-[DAf].
Is this what you have in mind ? Perhaps we need to know what you mean
by not correct and what you are aiming for.
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of new syntax, even if they like a new feature enough to want
to implement it.
James Allwright
On Mon 22 Oct 2001 at 04:01AM -0200, Paulo Eleuterio Tiburcio wrote:
Hi, all.
What are the rules for posting suggestions to the standard, if any? Is
there a FAQ on that?
Thanks in advance
at http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/ .
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This looks like the a and the b are tied to other notes. I think you need
to change the notation to make this unambiguous.
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On Tue 23 Oct 2001 at 04:04PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote:
James Allwright wrote:
Some time ago I toyed with the idea of creating an intermediate level
format (ILF) which would make it easier for developers to create new
tools. We would then have separate programs for
abc - ILF
ILF
the copyright on all of the editorial changes they
made, so for all intents and purposes, the music itself is copyrighted.
PEYA (please expand your acronym).
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that rapid-updating developers will fix
it themselves rather than wait for the official bugfix to filter through.
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enough it be a valuable resource to
guide any new abc developer on interpreting the more subtle aspects
of abc.
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On Wed 31 Oct 2001 at 04:28PM +, Phil Taylor wrote:
James Allwright wrote:
It is still possible for someone who cares about an abc standard
to help the process along; get hold of every abc program you can,
go through them carefully and then document the compatibilities
On Thu 01 Nov 2001 at 01:22PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James On Thu 01 Nov 2001 at 04:59PM +0100, Forgeot Eric wrote:
Sharps, flats and natural signs may be indicated in guitar chords
using '\#', '\b
On Fri 02 Nov 2001 at 06:48AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James On Thu 01 Nov 2001 at 04:59PM +0100, Forgeot Eric wrote:
Sharps, flats and natural signs may
On Fri 02 Nov 2001 at 09:32AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Ok, you have a point here, but I've never actually seen natural signs
James used in chords.
Maybe not, but they're used in figured bass all the time. And the
chord
G D2
The current standard implies that this is how it should be done.
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On Fri 09 Nov 2001 at 11:18AM -0600, Taral wrote:
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:47:25AM +, James Allwright wrote:
Well, no-one has requested this, but I thought I'd post it all
the same. This is my little bit of PostScript to insert sharp
and flat symbols in a text string. It works
ideas to make use of existing syntax and be added in harmoniously
if at all possible. Rather than propose specific syntax, maybe you
need to be saying I'd like this new feature, what syntax do we need
to support it? .
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identifiers are used for the
french violin clef (G1) for instance?
From memory, yaps supports clef=bass, treble, soprano, mezzosoprano,
and alto. These are all names that came out of one of my music
textbooks.
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On Mon 12 Nov 2001 at 07:21PM +0100, Christoph Dalitz wrote:
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I wrote line break because I do not understand the abc guitar chords
only as guitar chords, but more general as arbitrary text printed above
a note. This includes guitar chords, basso continuo figures
On Tue 13 Nov 2001 at 08:13AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
Phil == Phil Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lilypond, which is the printing program I'm actually using these days,
has a MIDI block and a score block, so the two speeds are actually
completely independent unless you do something
is well. I believe that there are only a finite
number of italian words used to indicate musical tempo, so this
approach should actually be possible.
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number used to define it. Maybe I missed
the point of your posting.
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syntax as well.
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There is some information on this XP problem at:
http://members.home.net/alexfein/Articles/FileSearch.htm
James Allwright
On Thu 15 Nov 2001 at 08:26PM +, Steve Mansfield wrote:
Microsoft have made a change to the way in which the Search facility
works in Windows XP compared
Oops, I see that Steve Mansfield's site already has that link.
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In an attempt to wrap up this thread, would the following proposal
for a new field meet everyone's requirements ?
Field Name: q:playing style
Header: Yes
Tune Body: No
Description: Contains a written non-numerical description of the
tune's tempo or mood.
Examples:
q:Allegro
q:Lento
James
Try abc2abc. This has options for doubling up and halving the L:
value used. I usually stick with one L: value for a tune though;
swapping about would make it too confusing to read in my opinion.
James Allwright
On Wed 21 Nov 2001 at 11:06PM +0100, Simon Wascher wrote:
Hello,
from time
the definition. If a term is defined at the
beginning of a tune, used once and then lost there is no point in
having it. This seems to be how written tempos are normally used.
It seems we haven't even agreed what the problem is. I think it will
be difficult to agree on a solution.
James Allwright
standard. Likewise, perhaps you could post a list of military march
tempos. Where pre-existing standards exist, then providing support
for them in abc does seem like a good idea.
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For those who have wondered what got discussed by the abc standards
committee, here is a summary of our discussion. The section numbers
referred to can be found at
http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard-propose/
James Allwright
This is a summary of the new features proposed in the new abc
.
James Allwright recently answered a question of mine (based on a proposal
for a q: field) as follows:
Would this make it impossible to transcribe music which is supposed to be
played Placidly in the main, except for a passage which is supposed
to be
played Excitedly?
Use
On Tue 27 Nov 2001 at 06:33AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
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James yaps supports ! ! for musical instructions which seems to be the closest
James thing to a text tempo field and, yes, you can give it its own font.
Can you change
, where a passage is played at half speed and
this is normally notated by using notes of double the length.
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a desire to maintain an RPM for abcMIDI ?
(c) If no-one wants to maintain an RPM, I'd like to put Ian's one on
sourceforge - can someone send me a copy ?
(note for the uninitiated; RPMs are Red Hat Linux package files)
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this is important stuff. :-)
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On Fri 07 Dec 2001 at 11:57AM +, Erik Ronström wrote:
What the accidentals =, ^, _ mean? Are they absolute (e g _e means
e flat) or are they in relation to the key (e g =e means e flat
in Bb major)?
Accidentals are absolute, which is how they are in standard stave
notation.
James
in
at the end of it all. Also, the harder it becomes to add further
encrustations at a later stage.
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program might ignore the end repeat if there is no start repeat
and just play once through.
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On Thu 13 Dec 2001 at 03:30PM +, John Chambers wrote:
How about a reminder of the best place to get the current version?
http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/
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is attached to the immediately following start
repeat by a printer program and detected as the repeat count by a player
program. If the printer program wants to use lots of dots or other
clever stuff to indicate a strange repeat, then it can, but that doesn't
show up in the abc.
James Allwright
when the start of repeat is missing.
My point is that missing out a start repeat is bad notation;
an anacrusis at the start of a piece generates ambiguity and I think
you will be hard pressed to find a music textbook that legitimizes the
process of missing off start repeats.
James Allwright
and so you can't tell the difference between a start
repeat and a end repeat. Suppose your music has the form
A |: B :| C |: D :| E
you are now in big trouble if you can't tell the difference between
a start repeat and an end repeat.
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(something which took
me quite a while).
Before I get started on this, has anyone already written a document
along these lines ?
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Perhaps the linebreak is causing your parser to have problems ?
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B|Add fdd|add fdd|BAB gfg|ece gfe|!
[1 Add fdd|add fdd|fdB AGF|GEF GF:|!
[2 afa bgb|afa gfe|fdB AGF|GEF GF|]!
From the standard:
First and second repeats
First and second repeats can
and more on setting up
sound cards. If you are willing to review and maybe add bits to
it, let me know and I will e-mail you a copy. With a bit of luck,
the document will be ready to put on the web in a few weeks
time.
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James Someone incorrectly writes:
: James is adamant that abc2midi won't play a repeat unless there's
: a balanced begin/end.
James Damn! Take
had a multiple-bar non-printing-rest
construct.
This problem could be solved by introducing a rule that says multiple bar
rests are not shown in merged lines.
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certainly think this is a potential pitfall worth documenting.
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Atte,
I tried your bit of abc on the latest version of abc2abc (1.14)
and it didn't crash. Maybe you can send me a full bug report
off-line and also tell me what OS you are running on.
Thanks,
James Allwright
On Sun 03 Feb 2002 at 09:04AM +0100, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
Hi,
maybe it's
On Wed 06 Feb 2002 at 12:26PM +0100, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
James Allwright, will you please reconsider changing the behavior of
abc2midi so that it interprets ^F-|F as ^F-|^F and not ^F|=F, since it's
widely agreed here on the list that that would be the prober way of
understanding
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, James Allwright wrote:
It would also be nice to find a written standard to support the
interpreation, since the only definition I can find says nothing about
ties and so implies that the accidental
?
* It is not nessecary to separate the tunes since
an empty line is used for that purpose.
If you have arbitrary text in with the abc, the X: field is useful to
mark the start of the tune. Also, some programs allow you to select a
set of tunes using the X: field.
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because these are used
to indicate an alternative chord.
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