...An example of something solfa can do that ABC can't: take a waltz
tune with a trochaic metre and put a chord over beat 2 (see the Jimmy
Shand Book of Waltzes for examples of this). In ABC there is no way
to write that, chords have to synchronize with the start of a note.
Just a question:
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
Jack Campin wrote:
...I have occasionally thought about implementing an ABC-to-solfa
translator. The bit I don't have a tool to do is a solfa font...
Showing my ignorance here, but wouldn't any non-proportional font do,
such as Courier?
It's got wee
...I have occasionally thought about implementing an ABC-to-solfa
translator. The bit I don't have a tool to do is a solfa font...
Showing my ignorance here, but wouldn't any non-proportional font do,
such as Courier?
The octaving signs are the main problem; the lower one doesn't occur
in
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From: David Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [scots-l] solfa
Jack Campin wrote:
The octaving signs are the main problem; the lower one
doesn't occur
in ASCII (it has to be distinguished from a comma, which
is used
Jack Campin wrote:
The octaving signs are the main problem; the lower one doesn't occur
in ASCII...
That's a nail in its coffin then. I've always been interested in solfa
and have made a couple of half-hearted attempts to become proficient at
it. When I discovered ABC I saw a strong
If solfa can't be conveyed in ASCII what use is it?
Well, it can *roughly* be conveyed in ASCII, but you'd want to get it
looking better than that for publication-quality. After all, you can
do staff notation in typewriter art if you want.
The main use is that lots of people know how to read
Mom left nothing but trash, mostly, but this one book crawled out from under
a pile of magazines and papers and caught my eye. It is not dated. Called
Scotland Calling in 50 Scottish Songs, it has both staff notation and
sol-fa. For someone who has only a vague knowledge of sol-fa, this is
