Philip Whittaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Below you will find the abc file I have created. I have stuck to Calvert's
spelling of the titles including the "f" for "s". Rather iritating! For
authenticity change your font to a distressed serif font!
You might want to take a closer look at those letters. In most fonts,
there was a slight but visible difference between the "long s" and an
"f". Some fonts did make them identical. The most common distinction
was that the little horizontal cross went all the way through in an
"f", but was only on one side (usually the left) in a "long s". In
other fonts, the bottom of the "f" was abrupt or a serif, while the
"long s" had a curl to the left at the bottom.
| So if you want to comment on my first attempts - please be kind - see below
One suggestion: You might want to see if you can turn off the line
wrapping in your mailer, or set it to something like 999 chars. It
did some real damage to your tunes:
X: 8
T:Trip to Kelfo
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:jig
B:Thomas Calvert Collection - Page 4
K:A
E| ABA c2 A| e2 A c2 A| BcB d2B| f2 Bd cB | ABA c2 A| e2 A c2 A| fga e2
d| cd B A2 | |
e| aga g2 e| fdf ecA | ABA aga | Acd efg | aga g2 e| fdf ecA
fga e2 d| cd B A2 e|
aga g2 e| fdf ecA | ABA aga | Acd efg | aga geg | fdf ecA | fga e2 d|
cd B A2 ||
The inserted line feeds produces some rather badly-formatted music
with software that follows the official abc syntax. Having one note
plus one measure stretched out across the entire page doesn't look
real pretty.
This is an ongoing problem with abc and email, of course. And it
didn't start with abc. Most programmers are quite familiar with the
damage done to source code when mailers insert line feeds like this.
A lot of us have often wished we could hunt down the authors of the
email software that does this, take them out back, and quietly give
them a good going over to teach them a lesson.
Well-formatted abc is easy to read. Try it yourself. Some people now
claim that they can read abc better than staff notation. But there's
a lot of poorly-formatted, unreadable abc out there ...
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