On Fri 16 Nov 2001 at 04:20PM -0800, John Walsh wrote:
I haven't been following closely enough to be sure, but I have the
impression that the idea of basing the tempo on the L: field has been
pretty well discarded, except possibly as a legacy from abc 1.6 in the
(deprecated) Q:120
Hello all,
since no one else raised her hand, I have taken the sweet burden on my
hefty shoulders: I've started writing the new ABC draft.
Design goals:
a) 100% upwards compatibility with current ABC;
b) main target is western classical music;
c) explicitly designed for computer
A while ago James Allwright said -
The problem of abritrary text has come up before and "_ " is the agreed
syntax for arbitrary text
and more recently -
This was resolved ages ago. Q:120 takes the value of unit note length
from the header. If there is a new L: field in the body of the tune,
the
James, we're at cross purposes here. In fact I think you are at
cross-purposes with everyone else.
We know that the existing Q: field works and it's well defined BUT
Some people (I think it was Frank that started it) say (and I'm putting
words into their mouths) Look, the Q: syntax is all very
May I (rather humbly since I'm not doing the work) suggest that you do not
wait until it's all complete and then publish it all at once. It would
cause too much reading load so that some people would not read it all for
months and then, several months late, object like mad. It would also be
Hello,
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
So we find we've begged some questions. OK, so Allegro is 120 per minute,
but 120 of WHAT per minute?? It then became clear that if you are playing
in 6/8 it would mean 120 3/8 notes but if you were playing in 2/4 it would
mean 120 1/4 notes and if you were
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James 1. Musical terms would be better put in a new field (I think q: has been
James suggested) than added to the existing Q: field. Possibly N: would be
James acceptable.
No, it wouldn't. N: is used for notes. I use it for
On Mon 19 Nov 2001 at 01:34PM -, Laurie Griffiths wrote:
Some people (I think it was Frank that started it) say (and I'm putting
words into their mouths) Look, the Q: syntax is all very well for
controlling the speed of a player program, but what I want to be able to do
is to say 'play
James Allwright wrote:
I think we need to know whether Allegro is one of a small set of
well-defined tempo descriptors (in which case it would be really nice
to have the complete set together with their definitions) or one
tempo definition in a large and vague set that spans the complete
James Allwright said -
The "_ " construct is in the draft standard and probably documented in
the application notes for a number of abc applications.
I concede. You are right. (Why didn't you say this in the first place?)
You could have added this from the draft standard -
$ A meter change
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:25:45PM +, James Allwright wrote:
The Q: field is documented reasonably well by the 1.6 standard. In the
long distant past there was a similar problem caused by the standard
stating that an implicit value for the L: field can be deduced from the
value of the M:
Hello,
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Simon Wascher wrote:
why if the beat changes with the meter, the meter (M:) isnt the field
which defines by its content (I do *not* mean to add an extention to
it) what Allegro (~120 beats per minute) means.
However, if the note
I belive it is not really neccessary to define the beat of allegro in
Balkan music (like 3+3+2), I've never heard of such a definition in any
other music notation context. And for sure it would be an abuse of the
classical music's tempo word Allegro.
I just fished out my copy of Maud
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
James, we're at cross purposes here. In fact I think you are at
cross-purposes with everyone else.
We know that the existing Q: field works and it's well defined BUT
Some people (I think it was Frank that started it)
It was Jack, actually.
James Allwright
Jean-Francois == Jean-Francois Moine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jean-Francois Sure I should tell everyone the changes I did to satisfy their
Jean-Francois needs, but, as it is often done after a while in a unstable release,
Jean-Francois I hoped the concerned people had a look and
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