>I use this abc for obtaining, sending, transcribing and printing tunes >- I use emacs/xemacs as editor with abc-mode and then to produce top >quality printed music I use jcabc2ps - what is *wrong* with the abc2ps's ??
I think jcabc2ps was not targeted in the list of the bad applications, of course jcabc2ps is a good "clone", and it's the reason there is a question for merging jcabc2ps and abcm2ps (if I understood well). The problem raised is that on the abc main page http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/ we get the impression that abc2ps is the best "fully tested released version" / "the latest version with new and experimental features from Germany" while others are vile clones : "John Chambers' clone of abc2ps / Jean-Fran�ois Moine's clone of abc2ps", and they are presented after the outdated Abc2ps. And even if Abc was developped originally for TeX, those old TeX packages should be presented only at the end of the list, for nostalgics. >I really wish I understood this hate campaign against abc2win. On >his website, Jim Vint credits a great many people who gave him support some >of whom are still active on this list) so he didn't work in isolation. I don't hate abc2win. On my website I still recomment it, but I state that it's only for beginners who wish to type simple folk tunes only because it's so limited. And now I tend to favorise Abacus, even if the 1st release still crash from time to time. On http://www.abc2win.com/ infos have been updated, but not the prg. For ex. it still plays music throught the buzzer of the PC, when it could have been maybe not so hard to have the option to send the tune to abc2midi istead. I don't say it's compulsory the author does that, of course, but abc2win couldn't expect in return we consider it the most important and best abc application. I discovered Abc with Abc2win, and learn to type abc with it, I'm gratefull it existed at that time and I still consider it was a good application at the moment (also for selection of tunes in a book), but now it's a bit outdated for some other uses. For ex. it can't directly print a whole book of tunes on several pages. The problem was raised recently. I used my Atari with pleasure, but I'm glad better computers arrived on the market, and programmer didn't released later software still compatible with Atari. Even Abc2win couln't run on the DOS emulator I had on it :) >> using abcpp I've fixed lots of legacy ABC files. It would be nice if >there >> were a web-based "translation service" based on abcpp. I have no >> experience on writing web applets; any hints? >Although the list seems to be dominated by the Windows and Linux users, >don't forget in designing standards that there are a fair number of >Macintosh users who use abc too. Solutions that aren't compatible with >our >computers don't do us much good! Therefore the idea of a web-based >translation service sounds particularly good to me. About Macintosh, so far I couldn't check how Barfly behaves. I've made it work on an emulator recently, and I liked it, but I had to convert my tunes to make them display when each V: label occurs only once (on big score it's less readable, but not on smaller ones), and the %midi transpose commands weren't supported. I find more conveniant to use such a command for transposing -24 and to type something like G2 G>G A2-A>B instead of G,,2 G,,>G,, A,,2-A,,>B,, About a translation service, for converting whole set of tunes to pdf it could be a good idea. JC's Tune finder can do this for single tunes, but not for user's tunebook I think. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
