Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Holland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:13:44PM +0100, Neil Jennings wrote: Problem is that the 'independent format' needs to accommodate all functionality required from all formats. To a certain extent; otherwise you end up with a complicated monstrosity that no-one supports all aspects of anyway. I

[abcusers] Re: Tune identification

2003-10-14 Thread DavBarnert
Frank Nordberg wrote: Great lyrics, btw. Very poetic ;-) Too bad I can't use them. The tune's not really suitable for singing at the tempo we're gonna play it in. Nonsense. We play it at the speed you posted it, and I first became aware of the words one night when Billy Drislane started

[abcusers] Re: mup

2003-10-14 Thread DavBarnert
Martin Tarenskeen wrote: Would be nice to start working on a commandline tool that can take many types of music notation formats as input and produces any other of these formats as output. Neil Jennings wrote: Problem is that the 'independent format' needs to accommodate all functionality

[abcusers] Re: ABC to HTML viewer

2003-10-14 Thread DavBarnert
Norman Schmidt wrote: After not finding a plugin for my browser to read abc files directly from the internet, I have taken the viewing engine I wrote for ABassC on the Palm and PockePC and ported it to HTML. The result is at www.normanschmidt.net/abassc.php . You have to copy/paste the

Re: [abcusers] Re: mup

2003-10-14 Thread Laura Conrad
David == DavBarnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David pdf). The problem with compatibility with abc for this format David (and I believe all the others) is support for modes. I don't think David any of the other formats know the difference between C major and A David minor.

Re: [abcusers] Re: ABC to HTML viewer

2003-10-14 Thread Norman Schmidt
The problem with concertina.net/tunes.convert.html is that it often gives an error message: No image available -- there's probably a error in the ABC source causing the conversion to fail. I make lots of mistakes and need something much more forgiving... a beginner can just type in ABC and get

Re: [abcusers] Re: mup

2003-10-14 Thread Neil Jennings
My program HARMONY certainly knows the difference between Modes, Minor and Major, as does the abc format. MIDI does NOT distinguish modes, but the key meta-event is only for documentation anyway, makes no difference to the audio output. - Original Message - From: Laura Conrad [EMAIL

Re: [abcusers] Multivoice in ABC 2.0

2003-10-14 Thread ANewman110
Hi Barry, I agree about putting things in the V: header (or other headers). V: makes sense for type specific things. I disagree about removing the [] in front of the lines for voice change. The reason is that, for instance abcd is a valid voice name in the new standard and is also valid tune

[abcusers] new iabc released

2003-10-14 Thread ANewman110
We're up to version 0.8 now. http://abc.sourceforge.net/iabc See the above link for release notes. Aaron To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html