On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:30:10PM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Robinson > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> No, it wasn't that, just the problem of variant > Richard> dialects. ... > > I'm really out of touch with abcm2ps development ... > > Richard> To be fair, I've just tried it on a big version of the > Richard> Black Joak, and it didn't report any problems there > Richard> (though lilypond subsequently blew up on a missing > Richard> start-repeat ...) > > Can you send me that file? I thought I had that fixed....
You probably have - it's just the same old much-argued missing start-repeat at the beginning of the opening bar. Some ABC apps complain, as well, but recover. I know it would be "better practice" to put it in, but there's so much ABC that doesn't. Including mine; because it's obvious and saves typing ... > Richard> [ It may be relevant to mention that I'm running Debian > Richard> Linux (stable), and therefore probably quite a long way > Richard> behind "current" versions. ] > > If it's 1.4, you should upgrade. You can get 1.6 from > ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/binaries/debian. Unfortunately, > upgrading to 1.7, which is soon to become the next 1.8 stable version, > will require getting some stuff from unstable. But I had 1.6 on a > pure stable system. Yes. 1.4.12. So I should probably update before I make any further comment (well, I should have done _before_, really). The way I do it is to let Debian manage everything except the things where I want to be up to the edge (mainly abc-related stuff), which I install myself in /usr/local ; I don't really want to get involved with debian unstable, I like a solid system. So it's a circularity problem - outofdate abc2ly doesn't do what I'm wanting so I hadn't clocked it as "important" so I haven't kept up to date ... I may have been wrong about that, lilypond-book might just better a better wheel than the ones I've cooked up for myself. I'll have a look at this, and comment further when I have a more up to date idea ... it may be a while, though. > Richard> My thought was just that, this is possibly an important > Richard> abc-reading program, but I don't think we've heard from > Richard> its developers at all, on this list ? And maybe there are > Richard> other such. > > I'm probably the most active maintainer, although I haven't done > anything to 1.7. And I do mention it from time to time, but don't > seem to get much interest back. I don't know why, since it solves a > lot of the problems people discuss here. I'm sorry, I hadn't realised you were involved with its development. > Since someone finally asked, I have daydreams, which may turn into > actual coding in the next couple of months, of enabling both > abctab2ps-style tablature and figured bass in abc2ly. You do *not* > want to type the lilypond input for either one, but the lilypond > output is really nice. See > http://www.laymusic.org/music/veracini/book/sonatas.pdf for examples > of the figured bass. Yes, it does look nice. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
