> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Laurie (ukonline) wrote: > > Well as Muse already has diamond, cross square (oh, and the usual ellipse) > > for note heads, the answer is about minus three years for the formatting, > > GUI editing, printing, etc.
> How does the abc look for this in muse? It doesn't! Muse has its own format which has supported these things for quite a while. There is no point in trying to import it from ABC because there is no ABC out there that has it - i.e. no "official" standard and no de facto standard either and nobody notices the lack in Muse because there is no body of files for people to try. There is no point in exporting it from ABC because there's no place to export it to. If you want to export it to anopther copy of Muse then you can do that much better in Muse format (which will remember a load of other stuff about fonts, layout, view, staffs, tablature too). If there is an official or a de facto standard, then so long as it's not too peculiar, an hour or two of work should see Muse able to import it or export it. For instance, putting * in front of the note would be easy. However that would give something that could *look* like some sort of percussion score. To make it play like one is another matter. Incidentally I see in Tom Gerou and Linda Lusk's "Essential Dictionary of Music Notation" that non-pitched notes are written as x for a basic duration of 1/4 note (crotchet) and shorter but diamond for 1/2 and longer. (By "basic duration" I mean before considering dots, triplets etc). Their work seems to be as definitive as any (meaning not definitive at all, but a good starting point). Laurie To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
