Sorry, my answer didn't reach the baroque lute list, as I only sent it
to Taco.
One problem could be, that django at the moment doesn't support output
of abctab, but as it did (or at least stringwalker did), that might be
very easy to include!
I'm not sure, if fronimo does support it.
Best regards
Markus
Markus Lutz schrieb:
The big advantage of abctab is IMHO, that you can write the tabs more
easily within one line of ASCII.
Best regards
Markus
Taco Walstra schrieb:
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:06 +0200, David van Ooijen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Markus Lutz<mar...@gmlutz.de> wrote:
I would very much appreciate to be able to include incipits also.
.
Probably the best would be to have them in abctab2ps, as this format
is very
agreed and multi-platform and free/open source. after all these years
there are still only 2 open formats: tab and abc. Both have their
problems but it's still better than proprietarity formats like django or
whatever. Unfortunately more sofisticated formats like musicxml do not
support tablature.
I had a look at the Weiss page. Nice and clear, very helpful. It would
be nice to have this in the b-lute catalogue, too.
Is it possible to automatically compare abctab2ps files with each
other? If, say, 60% of the data in the first few measures would be the
same, it could be an indication for a concordance and be worth to have
a look at. Then, of course, this data should be made available in the
catalogue.
abctab is plain ascii, so you can easily see differences when opened in
a text editor or a program which is able to show differences in text
files (in linux it's simply called diff). Still, using a program for
retrieving concordances of pieces written
with tab or abc is certainly not possible: if two equal pieces are
written in a different key you will find only differences.... But
what's wrong with manual work done by a large community and a small
group of specialists who are reponsible to check outcomes and updating
the results in a free online database?
Taco
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