Bryan Creer wrote:
>It sounds as if I won't be able to use Phil's transcription of the Goldberg
>Variations. Can they really be said to be written in abc rather than in
>BarFly output code?
>
A C program which makes use of the Windows API is still written in C,
even though the source code won't compile elsewhere. It's just using
a set of extensions appropriate to that particular job. I have extended
abc to deal with Baroque keyboard music and Gregorian Chant. The
extensions are not particularly complex (not compared with the Windows
API anyway), so you could implement them if you needed to.
If you want to do Gregorian Chant you can use Melody Assistant, which
is available for Windows and Mac and incorporates the same Gregorian
Chant extensions as BarFly. No other program has yet implemented the
macros which are required to deal with Bach's decorations.
>BarFly has something of a monopoly in the MAC market.
There's
macabc2mtex (now very old)
macabc2ps
macmidi2abc
Melody Assistant
Virtual Composer
abc4mac
Skink
Phil Taylor
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