[abcusers] BarFly version 1.53 available

2004-04-01 Thread Phil Taylor
There's a new version of BarFly up for grabs at http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com As usual this is a free update. New stuff: * Recent files menu. * Line number display. * Coda added to list of musical symbols. * Symbol definitions can now be written between exclamation marks or + signs (if you

[abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread P J Headford
Just a reminder ... ABC is not just a computer thing. I know quite a few musicians who can play you the tune from the ABC notation. Also, when I'm in a session and someone plays a tune I'd like to remember, I can simply note down the first few bars in ABC more quickly (and more legibly) in ABC

Re: [abcusers] Exporting to Midi.

2004-04-01 Thread Jack Campin
there is a bug in Quicktime 6 which causes long notes to be truncated (played staccato) when generating a midi file. [...] so another possible work around is to generate the midi file at a fast tempo to keep all delta times within two bytes, then use a midi editor to change the tempo. Is

Re: [abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread John Chambers
P J Headford comments: | Just a reminder ... | ABC is not just a computer thing. | I know quite a few musicians who can play you the tune from the ABC | notation. This is worth repeating periodically as a reminder of one of ABC's main features. One example from last year: I got email from

Re: [abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread Richard Robinson
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:33:01PM +, John Chambers wrote: P J Headford comments: | Just a reminder ... | ABC is not just a computer thing. This is worth repeating periodically as a reminder of one of ABC's main features One of the benefits of any plain-text data format is

Re: [abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread Neil Jennings
MusicXML is plain text, just as all the markup languages are, but that doesn't mean you don't have to decode it. Can you decode even simple HTML by just reading it?. MusicXML needs to be read along with the DTD. (By the way, I am slowly adding MusicXML export to HARMONY) Neil At 05:05 PM

[abcusers] anyone for jim vint?

2004-04-01 Thread P J Headford
I'd like to email Jim Vint. Can any kind soul oblige me (off-list)? Thanks, Flos -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread Richard Robinson
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:20:00PM +0100, Neil Jennings wrote: MusicXML is plain text, just as all the markup languages are, but that doesn't mean you don't have to decode it. Can you decode even simple HTML by just reading it?. Sure. Anything can be made hard to read if you have a machine

Re: [abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread John Chambers
html Neil Jennings writes: blockquote MusicXML is plain text, just as all the markup languages are, but that doesn't mean you don't have to decode it. Can you decode even simple HTML by just reading it?. MusicXML needs to be read along with the DTD. /blockquote p

Re: [abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread Phil Taylor
On 1 Apr 2004, at 18:39, Richard Robinson wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 06:20:00PM +0100, Neil Jennings wrote: MusicXML is plain text, just as all the markup languages are, but that doesn't mean you don't have to decode it. Can you decode even simple HTML by just reading it?. Sure. Anything can

Re: [abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread Christian M. Cepel
With this in mind, I've been struggleing while editing ABC lately. I'm not real good at reading music or ABC on the fly due to learing disability (latent cognition between reading and comprehending). There's a few things that prove to be making reading ABC on the fly a real difficult task. I

Re: [abcusers] ABC and MusicXML

2004-04-01 Thread Phil Taylor
On 1 Apr 2004, at 22:19, Christian M. Cepel wrote: With this in mind, I've been struggleing while editing ABC lately. I'm not real good at reading music or ABC on the fly due to learing disability (latent cognition between reading and comprehending). There's a few things that prove to be making