Re: [abcusers] expandable information field

2003-07-26 Thread Phil Taylor
Jack Campin wrote: I'd like to catch the use the the Y: field for future extensions like Y:someinfofield=some info field value This way we've maintained compitiblity with existing abc files while having the possibilty of future expansion. Perhaps Phil (as the person whose program has the

Re: [abcusers] expandable information field

2003-07-26 Thread Richard Robinson
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:00:11AM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: Jack Campin wrote: I'd like to catch the use the the Y: field for future extensions like Y:someinfofield=some info field value This way we've maintained compitiblity with existing abc files while having the possibilty of

Re: [abcusers] Re: About the choice of '!'

2003-07-26 Thread Forgeot Eric
Changing abcm2ps to use *...* instead of !...! (it accepts ! for a linebreak already) would be a matter of minutes work for Jef. Changing ABC2Win is not possible. no, we don't ask people to change their way of notation or Abc2Win to be improved or conform to anything : !-for-line-break addicts

Re: [abcusers] voice properties

2003-07-26 Thread John Chambers
Arent Storm writes: | From: I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] | T1 in V:T1 is just an identifier that will make the ABC | source code more readable. | | As you know the name of the voice and other options | need to be spelled out only once, so having readable | identifiers throughout a big

Re: [abcusers] voice properties

2003-07-26 Thread Arent Storm
- Original Message - From: John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] voice properties Arent Storm writes: | From: I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] | T1 in V:T1 is just an identifier that will make the ABC |

Re: [abcusers] voice properties

2003-07-26 Thread Phil Taylor
Arent Storm wrote: Nonetheless V:1 name=Soprano subname=S V:2 name=Alto subname=A V:3 name=Tenor subname=T clef=tenor V:4 name=Bass subname=B clef=bass would be more complete and to the point I agree. BarFly currently does not use voice labels at all, and only permits numerical V: fields.

Re: [abcusers] ABC examples with bang?

2003-07-26 Thread Jeff Bigler
I'm catching up on old email here. Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:41:01 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor) Bernard Hill wrote: Why is it so great? What's wrong with z8 (or z6 or whatever is appropriate)? Presumably because you can write | Z5 | and have the program interpret it as