Re: [abcusers] Intergalactic naming conventions.
... And the English think that English is the language that the English speak!! Laurie To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general
Ages ago Eric said programs should "... - follow the general convention for
shortcuts ("ctrl + c" for
copy, "ctrl + a" for select all etc.)"
I'm just looking at this in Muse. The problems is that a clip has a musical
context described in Muse by Clef, Key signature, transpose, capo and
accidentals (and ABC has most of these too and you can argue as to whether
time-signature, tempo etc should be included). So if you want to cut and
paste from the flute part to the clarinet part, you have to say whether you
want to copy the musical intent or the text. Furthermore a snippet that is
copying may alter the context for following notes (for instance it may
include a K:) so that makes about 8 variants according to whether you want
to
* Copy the TEXT (ignoring the original context) or the MUSIC (in effect
transposing the clip temporarily into the key of C with no inherited capo,
transpose or accidentals)
* Paste the TEXT or the MUSIC (in effect transposing the clip by the inverse
of the new context and inserting naturals to undo anything done by the key
signature or accidentals in the new context)
* Ignore the consequences or PRESERVE the context - for instance pasting a
^C into a bar in K:G where there is another C later in the bar - should that
new C now become =C?
Unfortunately most of these options make sense some of the time. To copy
the soprano part into the tenor part, I might copy and paste the text and
the text inherits the new context (transposing down by one octave). To copy
that into the clarinet part I want to paste the *music* and not the text.
Likewise to copy out of the clarinet part into somewhere else.
Should the default perhaps be to copy the music, paste the music and
preserve the context?
Laurie
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[abcusers] re : RE: Intergalactic naming conventions
>| Lewes, East Sussex, England. Take a look at=20 >| http://whatson.brighton.co.uk/folk/. ... >The URL worked, but there were no clues there about which planet it >might be on. try to do a WHOIS on it, a DNSLOOKUP, a TRACEROUTE, or even a FINDPLANET and you'll probably find it. > Finally a bright side to the Norwegian/Danish alphabet. I'm fairly >certain my present home town is the only place on earth named Bodø ;-) When I've been in Bodø and Nord-Norge in winter (Jul), I thought it was HEAVEN (or to be more correct, VALHALL) ! :) ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] modes (again)
Here's a slightly improved version of the Key-Signature-Scoring mode graph or table now on my website. The numerical assignments (convenient but not unique) of key, signature, and mode) are for algebraic use in a computer, so you can ignore them when scoring or analyzing (descoring?) a tune by hand (eyeball that is). http://www.erols.com/olsonw/SFMODE.GIF";> Click A little counting (automated via the search and display program) of the 6601 tunes coded in the file COMBCODE.TXT on my website, heavily slanted towards 18th and 19th century Irish tunes, shows that a little over half of them (52%) are tune mode NOT EQUAL to scoring mode. Bruce Olson -- Roots of Folk: Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside ballads at my no-spam website - www.erols.com/olsonw or just http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click Motto: Keep at it; muddling through always works. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
