On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:53:19AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am one of the world's only specialists in Thuglarki music, which as > you know is performed by three or four elderly yak herders in the > Kletnuf Mountains of Central Asia when they have nothing better to > do.
Oh, splendid. I knew there were more voices out there. > Thuglarki music, which is horribly (and perhaps needlessly) complex, > appears to have a different key signature for each "measure". Or > maybe it's just that lads are getting a little tone deaf as they age - > hard to tell. In any case, I recently ABC'd one of their favorite songs, > the "Bu Shpremt yig Platsl 'c Uv" (roughly "Who Was that Nanny Goat > I Saw You with Last Night?), and had to use the following K: field: > > K: D =c^g[?]^A[maybe]=f[are you serious?]_B[aw come on]=D,, > > ...and that was only for the first measure. > > Is there any way we can expand the standard to satisfy my (admittedly) > peculiar requirements? These guys won't be around forever - the "young > lad" of the group is 113 (gotta love that mountain air and simple diet). A C-style /*...*/ comment syntax would deal with a lot of these, but I think the trailing commas may be a more serious problem. These are intended to represent different intonations on each occurrence of a specific note, are they ? I take it that your needs for the M: field would probably need a separate thread. Oh dear. I just remembered ... one of the first things that happened to me when I got a net connection was a discussion, somewhere in the stranger reaches of alt.*, concerning marching bands and imaginary time signatures. Now, let's have a look at this. The standard says "It is also possible to specify a complex meter". Bwahaha. jcabc2ps will accept both 4i/4 and 4/4i without complaint, but only displays the 1st of these correctly. Interesting. Perhaps a better solution would have been to arrange for an "acceptable collateral damage due to friendly fire" incident, but now you've blown the gaff on this we may have to ... er, just stay where you are, okay ? Don't move. Damn unpredictable creature, Johnny Yak. <aside> I'll keep him talking, right, while youNO CARRIER -- 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
