Paulo Eleut�rio Tib�rcio wrote:

>Anyway, I think such a plugin would be of limited usability, as abc is a
>very loose standard (remember, it was conceived for human consumption
>with
>processed output as a byproduct) and a lot of the files available on the
>net use encoding features that do the task but must rely on specific
>software for that (and some may use custom features allowed by the
>standard
>but hard to be predicted by programmers;  I'm in need of some to encode
>Gregorian Chant, for instance, and I think I'll have to add more variety
>to
>the already existent for that).

Have you looked at <http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/bfgregorian.html)?
This scheme is followed by BarFly and by Melody/Harmony assistant, and
involves minimal changes to allow abc to represent Gregorian Chant.

(Basically, it's just an addition to the K: field to specify which of
the eight possible clefs is in use, and some reinterpretation of the
standard abc symbols when a Gregorian clef is specified.)

Phil Taylor


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