Jean-François Moine wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:44:29 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor)
wrote:
John Chambers has proposed a series of extensions to handle this, and
I tried to implement them in my own program. It turned out to be a
nightmare to get it working in the player. Eventually I
The latter.
People on this list will try to tell you that you don't really want to do that, which
of course you do or you wouldn't be asking :)
Regards,
Aaron
In a message dated 2/28/2003 12:43:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I'm having problems getting the
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:44:29 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor)
wrote:
John Chambers has proposed a series of extensions to handle this, and
I tried to implement them in my own program. It turned out to be a
nightmare to get it working in the player. Eventually I got frustrated
with it and
John Chambers wrote:
Since I'm also involved with styles like trad Scandinavian music
(How can you possibly write music without using 3rd and 4th
endings?)
I don't really understand your problem. I've played A LOT of
Scandinavian music and NEVER seen a 3rd and 4th ending in
Henrik Norbeck writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
| Since I'm also involved with styles like trad Scandinavian music
| (How can you possibly write music without using 3rd and 4th
| endings?)
|
| I don't really understand your problem. I've played A LOT of
| Scandinavian music and
| I'm having problems getting the variant ending feature to work for me.
| This works for 1 and 2 being different:
|
| AA,2A, B,2C |1DD3 z3 :||2 DD6 |]
|
| But I can't seem to find a way to indicate 1-3 are the same with 4 being
| different. I've tried encapsulating it in quotes, brackets,
Steven K. Mariner wrote:
I'm having problems getting the variant ending feature to work for me.
This works for 1 and 2 being different:
AA,2A, B,2C |1DD3 z3 :||2 DD6 |]
Your program should have flagged :|| as an error - the correct symbol for
a repeat bar is :|
But I can't seem to find a
On Thu 13 Dec 2001 at 11:57AM +, Phil Taylor wrote:
When John first suggested multiple alternate endings and repeats of
2 times I thought it was a good idea and started to implement it in
BarFly. Getting it to display was easy, but getting it to play correctly
turned out to be a
James Allwright writes:
| On Thu 13 Dec 2001 at 11:57AM +, Phil Taylor wrote:
| When John first suggested multiple alternate endings and repeats of
| 2 times I thought it was a good idea and started to implement it in
| BarFly. Getting it to display was easy, but getting it to play
At 01:34 PM 12-13-2001 +, James Allwright you wrote:
On Thu 13 Dec 2001 at 11:57AM +, Phil Taylor wrote:
A few things to consider when discussing repeat syntax:
* It has to coexist happily with other methods of specifying repeats,
such as the P: field in the header, and not rule
Phil taylor writes:
| A few things to consider when discussing repeat syntax:
|
| * It has to coexist happily with other methods of specifying repeats,
| such as the P: field in the header, and not rule out the use of conventional
| musical indirection (e.g. using the Segno). (A lot of people
Phil taylor writes:
| A few things to consider when discussing repeat syntax:
|
| * It has to coexist happily with other methods of specifying repeats,
| such as the P: field in the header, and not rule out the use of conventional
| musical indirection (e.g. using the Segno). (A lot of people
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/
James Allwright
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John == John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John BTW, where does the 1.6 standard explicitly forbid this final :|? I
John don't seem to see anything at all on the topic, only the statement
John that :| marks the end of a repeated section. This would imply that
John
On Thu 13 Dec 2001 at 03:24PM +, John Chambers wrote:
| * We also need a (preferably illustrated) description of how the various
| repeats are to be displayed in conventional notation. If we have a
| 4x repeat - |:::...:::|, should that be displayed with four dots
| arranged
John Chambers wrote:
Phil taylor writes:
| * It is very common to see repeats written as:
|
| abc |[1 abc :|[2 cba :|
|
| which is wrong (the last repeat should be written as || or |]), and is
| explicitly forbidden by the 1.6 standard. At the moment, because it's
| so common BarFly lets it go
I think it is reasonable to require |: at the start of a repeat section
Not given the amount of ABC out there that doesn't have one.
Like all of mine.
And I am NOT interested in re-editing the whole damn lot to please
simpleminded fussbudget implementations.
: If we can have multiple
Jack Campin wrote:
| ... A very long time ago (years) I posted an
| example of what such a structure might do: the 9/8 march Heights of
| Dargai has the form ABAC DBDC, and I've seen that in a modern book (in
| two staff lines) as
|
| [1,2 A [1,3 B :|
| [3,4 D [2,4 C :|
|
| which was
Phil taylor writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
| Phil taylor writes:
| | * It is very common to see repeats written as:
| | abc |[1 abc :|[2 cba :|
|
| This is done because with most current ABC tools, it's the *only* way
| to indicate four times through. It's definitely crappy notation, but
| it's
Phil taylor writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
| Phil taylor writes:
| | * It is very common to see repeats written as:
| | abc |[1 abc :|[2 cba :|
|
| This is done because with most current ABC tools, it's the *only* way
| to indicate four times through. It's definitely crappy notation, but
| it's
John Chambers writes:
Going back to || or [| isn't a very good idea. It's common practice
to use double bars to mark the major phrases within a section, and
they are (almost) never used as repeat boundaries. The code should go
back to |: or the start of the tune. We oughta state this in the
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