>>>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 > >>BarFly has a built-in command to do that - Format Tune under >>the Utilities menu will rearrange the abc into the format >>that the program likes (or the other way, if you set the >>number of bars per line and notes per line high enough). > >oh yes, I noticed and used BarFly to convert this, but I wanted to >have my arrangement back :)
It's still there. When you do a "Format Tune" BarFly opens a new window for the new arrangement. The old arrangement is still there in the window behind and you can just bring it back to the front. >Why can't it do it the two ways ? It can play the tune either way, but for display the lines of abc have to be in the same order that they will be displayed as music. It's done that way for speed really. >I can understand ppl editing a very long score prefer to have the >voices line by line, but sometimes some other pple could prefer to >have the V: only once if you want to quickly "mute" some voices >by deleting them in a temp file. Quickest way is to put the word "mute" in a V: field in the header to turn that voice off. >>It is supported, but you don't use %%midi. For a single voice >>tune put "transpose -24" (or just t=-24) in the K: field. > >It could be good to find a way to unify this in the new standard. >The drawback of your convention is that old program / other >program that don't recognise it may crash or display warnings >(Abc2win warns 4 times before displaying the tune), while the %% >notation won't cause problem : they're simply ignored if not >recognized. Yes, that's true. I don't like %%midi transpose, because transposition is nothing to do with midi, and you could only put one %%xxxx in a V:1 header field. I kind of hoped that the middle and transpose directives would get adopted into the standard, as they solve one of the most serious incompatibility problems we have. >>You can see what it looks like in Gregorian notation at the above >>URL. > >and it looks very good :) > > (on the website) >>Placing a comment symbol (%) before the clef specifier will cause >it to be displayed in modern notation > >yes, it's a good idea, it's conveniant and fast to switch this > >>http://www.mcn.net/~relbooks/gf_salve.gif > Oops, sorry :-( There's a rather poorer reproduction of it at: <http://www.op.org/domcentral/life/salve.htm> Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
