On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:07:39AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Richard> Which reminded me of abc2ly. I looked at that once and
> Richard> found it wouldn't deal with large amounts of my abc
>
> Why not? If it's the one tune per run limitation, abcselect will deal
> with that for you.
No, it wasn't that, just the problem of variant dialects. The last time
I tried it (a couple of days ago, after the mention in uc.o.l reminded me
of it) I hit a tune I'd just typed up which specifically wanted an
acciaccatura, abcm2ps's {/gracenote}. Which abc2ly didn't like ...
To be fair, I've just tried it on a big version of the Black Joak,
and it didn't report any problems there (though lilypond subsequently
blew up on a missing start-repeat ...) [ It may be relevant to mention
that I'm running Debian Linux (stable), and therefore probably quite
a long way behind "current" versions. ]
My thought was just that, this is possibly an important abc-reading
program, but I don't think we've heard from its developers at all,
on this list ? And maybe there are other such.
> Richard> ... which leads me to realise we've never really
> Richard> mentioned it. But it's abc-reading software, whatever the
> Richard> output (I think Laura uses it, I'm not sure how many
> Richard> others do).
>
> I don't think very many. I had a correspondence with one user last
> Spring. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who didn't also write unix
> scripts pretty fluently. E.g. for running abcselect on a file with
> multiple tunes, writing a latex file to include the output for all of
> them, and running lilypond on the ones that have changed. But if you
> go to lilypond, you've suddenly removed an awful lot of the ABC
> limitations people here complain about.
Oh, I can do that stuff ... but if you use lilypond like that, haven't
you cut yourslef off from ABC ? I don't think I'd want to use lilypond
as primary storage for tunes, it's too wordy. But if an abc2ly could read,
say, a new-improved-standard-ABC, then conversion-on-the-fly might make
lilypond-book a better alternative to my own ABC->ps-via-LaTeX scripts.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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