Re: [abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-15 Thread Phil Taylor
Anselm Lingnau wrote: Phil Taylor wrote: BarFly's macro processor does take lengths. You have to write a separate macro for each length of note. The reason for this is that an ornament which sounds right on a half note is often wrong on an eighth. I'm confused now. Suppose I had

Re: [abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-15 Thread Anselm Lingnau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) writes: I'm confused now. Suppose I had definitions for `Mn' and `Mn2'. What would happen (a) for `Mc' (b) for `Mc2' (c) for `Mc4' in the body of a tune? The interesting point is whether the `n' includes a length or not. (a) and (b) will expand, (c) will

[abcusers] Mirror of Joyce's book Old Irish folk music and songs

2001-08-15 Thread Forgeot Eric
Hello, I've found this : http://www.g8ina.enta.net/joyce.zip at : http://www.g8ina.enta.net/irish.htm The P.W.Joyce ABC Set The Joyce Set Site closed, thanks to Allen Garvin for permission (I've only found 370 tunes) | Don't know, but it's a great loss. | The site contained ABCs of all the

Re: [abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor inPerl

2001-08-15 Thread Jack Campin
I'm confused now. Suppose I had definitions for `Mn' and `Mn2'. What would happen (a) for `Mc' (b) for `Mc2' (c) for `Mc4' in the body of a tune? The interesting point is whether the `n' includes a length or not. (a) and (b) will expand, (c) will not, since there is no macro definition for

Re: [abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-15 Thread dman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:59:45PM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: | I wasn't able to test the script, unfortunately. MacPerl has got itself | into a fankle [...] Us Mac users don't have a lot of fun with perl. | Every time I try to use it I end up concluding that it would be quicker | to write