Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is: |:: ... ::|

2001-12-08 Thread Simon Wascher
Hello, there is no reason to reject ::| and :::| notation as far as I see. Additive complementary constructs (intriguing to me) could be: :text| and :numeral| the text construct would allow to specify freely any text that gives information on the number of repeats. examples: :repeat this

Re: [abcusers] tempo

2001-12-08 Thread Laurie Griffiths
I've been off sailing. Let me try (below) to clear up the tempo thread for the last week. Do we have a concensus? Can we adopt this yet? Laurie Jack Campin: One extra thing you get in actual scores: multiple names for the same tempo, which in your notation might be Q:allegro=Tempo I

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-08 Thread Simon Wascher
Hello, John Chambers wrote: (...) [First and second repeats] After several online discussions, I (and probably a few others) have implemented the rather trivial extension of allowing any string of digits, commas, hyphens and periods to label an ending. This means that endings like

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-08 Thread Laurie Griffiths
If 1+3 means the same as 1,3 then I would NOT like to see it. Multiple different ways to write the same thing just makes things more complicated. I presume that 1-3 means the same as 1,2,3. I can live with that as it could save a lot of typing;1-6 is much shorter than 1,2,3,4,5,6. Laurie -

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is: |:: ... ::|

2001-12-08 Thread Buddha Buck
Simon Wascher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, there is no reason to reject ::| and :::| notation as far as I see. Additive complementary constructs (intriguing to me) could be: :text| and :numeral| assume rest of proposal is included by reference I second this proposal. I have a

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-08 Thread John Chambers
Simon Wascher writes: | I would like to add: | [1+3 | and | [13 This is easy; it adds a couple of chars to the list of acceptable chars in the ending string. As long as these chars can't start another ABC term, there's no ambiguity. My current implementation has -,.0123456789 as the

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is: |:: ... ::|

2001-12-08 Thread Jack Campin
there is no reason to reject ::| and :::| notation as far as I see. You go on to suggest a more powerful formalism, so one reason would be that we simply don't need it. [Simon's message rearranged...] Additive complementary constructs (intriguing to me) could be: :numeral| This looks

RE: [abcusers] Sharps 'n flats

2001-12-08 Thread Eric Galluzzo
They are absolute. Thus, no matter what key you are in, _e means E flat. - Eric -Original Message- From: Erik Ronström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] What the accidentals =, ^, _ mean? Are they absolute (e g _e means e flat) or are they in relation to the key (e g =e means e flat

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard

2001-12-08 Thread Frank Nordberg
Jack Campin wrote: In music I've seen that uses this construct, it's represented by printing (3x) above the staff. A staff-notation generator could do whatever it liked with |:: ... ::|, but I suspect that most non-Scandiwegian users would be happier with some such explicit

Re: [abcusers] tempo

2001-12-08 Thread Laurie Griffiths
I feel these suggestions are making it complicated. I would like to follow the engineering maxim of Keep It Simple (yes, I know there's normally another S on the end and I know what it stands for but I don't want to insult anyone). - Original Message - From: Buddha Buck [EMAIL