that thing has a fairly big LCD screen (for
video display). It has a 40GB disk, and thus could store several
hundred CD's worth of MP3 dance tracks -- and it would be eminently
possible to embed dance cribs or even Pilling-style graphics in the
MP3 using special »tags«. I told him that if he adds v
I'm teaching, and then I usually know what I want to do and just
take the book along.
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I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that's true, then there
really aren't any stupid pe
ives.
My little project is ABCifying the tunes from the RSCDS dance books.
Some of the tunes have a second voice every so often (say, in four
bars out of twenty-four), and the »&« feature saves me a lot of typing
in [V:2] bits that are mostly empty.
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f to an outfit like ASCAP (in the US) or GEMA (in
Germany). In this case you will have to negotiate with that rather
than the original composers/arrangers.
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Experience is a hard teache
eudo-12/8.
The »>« notation is so useful for strathspeys, many of which consist
of nothing but »X>Y« and »X« (and »<«) is just what the
doctor ordered.
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Caveat: untested, so there may be typos, or even tho
James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have taken the view that '>' is a function to be used only in a
> very specific setting and trying to generalize it for other uses is
> courting trouble.
So, in abc2midi, ;>+ is intended for hornpipes only? What about
strathspeys?
Anselm
To subscr
affitti help if she doesn't have her manual handy.
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You're much more likely to be knocked down by a snowball than by an equivalent
number of snowflakes. -- Lar
and
Optima.
For fixed width, Courier is about as bad a font as there can conceivably
be. Knuth's Computer Modern Typewriter is not at all bad (and it even
comes in a sane encoding, compared to the rest of CM). Recent
distributions of X11 contain a mostly-free s
King isn't something
> that one does frivolously. If he doesn't enjoy your event,
> he has ways of making you sorry you summoned him.
Of course this doesn't apply to practising the tune; the Fairy King
likes his music played properly and looks benevolently on those who
app
soever.
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The obvious mathematical breakthrough [for breaking modern encryption] would
be the development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
-- Bill G
ly do mean the same thing in ABC or whether there are subtle,
non-obvious differences between the three that they don't know about.
This will be unnecessarily confusing.
The word is `KISS'.
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I
nfigurable in its
output.
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nings of these terms themselves, in a manner
appropriate to the music they were working with. The suggestion to
hard-code a selection of `tempo terms' (a bad one, IMHO) came from
elsewhere, quite a bit later.
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data/presentation dichotomy is all about, without
one actually having to bother moving one's lazy self away from the
computer.)
You appear to have this learning experience still ahead of you. I wish
you well; may your epiphany not be too painful when it comes. As it
will, eventually.
Ansel
contaminated'.
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>From a limp beginning, the erotic information processing market has been rising
in recent years and is now quite firm, although the recession has created some
soft spots.
n more detail in my reply to Laurie. If there is
anything about this that you don't understand then feel free to ask,
either on the list or in private e-mail. In any case it is important for
us to learn from other people's mistakes in order to avoid repeating
them ourselves, so since th
`This will be printed like so in that place' is a property of the
software system used to process the piece of music. I don't think the
ABC standard's business is to describe software systems; it should
describe the meaning of the ABC notation and leave it to the individual
software sy
terms of what they were supposed to look like when
rendered. It was only after outfits like Netscape and Microsoft came in
that HTML suddenly acquired stuff like BLINK and FONT, which certainly
allowed for some cool and snazzy effects that people liked to use, but
made the idea of HTML as a langu
already being treated. This is a very important distinction,
and for a famous and spectacular example of getting this wrong look at
HTML after Netscape and Microsoft were through with it. I would hate to
see the same thing happen to ABC.
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restissimo' and no metronome speed, while a player program would use
the 1/4=40 specification (as it should!). I can live with that -- at
least this possibility does not complicate the standard over and above
Jack's original proposal (modified to allow `note="..."'), which
Simon Wascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem is that there are situations where it is necessary to have
> part of the tempo indicator displayed and parts not.
>
> Example:
>
> Q:1/4=120 - Allegro % displaying "Allegro" and playing 1/4=120
>
> In your proposal how can this be d
Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anselm> I'm still waiting for you (or anybody) to explain why an
> Anselm> ABC tune should contain one prescribed explicit metronome
> Anselm> speed for display and another, different, prescribed
> Anselm> explicit metronome speed for pla
a
language complete when there is nothing left to add. (This leads us to
abominations like C++.) In fact, a design is usually much better when
there is nothing left to take away (and it still does what it is
supposed to do). We don't need special syntax for every single ABC
he
possible to control the tempo of a bunch of tunes without having to
change the `Q:' line for every single one, which I find quite appealing.
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I think there is a world market for about five computers.
ribed
explicit metronome speed for display and another, different, prescribed
explicit metronome speed for playback, and why this would be preferable
to letting users set their own playback speeds `ad hoc', external to the
ABC representation, with the ABC-provided
t;'. Within a tune, the
`grace' attribute should probably persist across `L:' changes that don't
introduce a new `grace' setting, for convenience.)
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The reason why so few
Simon Wascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is not trivial to
> tell where music ends and side information beginns. And as a transcriber
> of historical sources it is often very important to cover some "side"
> information within the exchangeable file, not just in the printed output
> (for fil
Simon Wascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I looked into my files, and found that the abc files I
> transcribed are a pile of about 3 MB (plain ASCII). Assuming that other
> peoples who are listed as large collections at the abc homepage also
> have big collections besides what is in the net rig
efer to be able to override the speed from within the
player program (via an interactive control and/or a command line
option), e.g., to slow down a piece when I'm practising playing along
with it, without having to change the ABC input. (This is actually one
of my pet peeves with abc2mi
the problems that we have experienced so far. I
still hope that we can get a bit closer, though.
There is no way that an ABC standard can be enforced other than by
`peer pressure'. However, for this it is necessary for the peers to
agree exactly where the pressure should lead.
Anselm
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as well as the `meta-data' (the title, composer and
so on) unchanged.
In my opinion, if somebody assigns an URN to a piece of ABC text that
means that he or she `signed off' on it as it stands, and that it should
be passed on either verbatim or without that URN. If a piece of ABC text
is chan
I do have a German
passport.
> But it would be even better to take the opportunity to put a bit more
> pressure to eliminate this bad notation entirely. A lot of Germans
> and Scandinavians would thank us.
Well, I don't think the ABC user community
g that can easily be fixed
using a preprocessor (the chord extraction script that I posted some
time ago would probably be a starting point).
The ABC language is fragmented enough as it is. We should work towards
simplifying and standardizing things rather than inventing new
complications.
t have a lot of fun with perl. Every
> time I try to use it I end up concluding that it would be quicker
> to write a program in C or Pascal to do the job.
Yes, but you Mac users have BarFly to begin with. I could have coded the
macro preprocessor
is fixed in these two respects on my
web page at `http://anselm.our-isp.org/abcmac/abcmac'.
> Maybe we can get abc2midi to process the Goldberg Variations?
We could try ...
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As an adolescent I aspired t
l give the program a more
permanent home on my web site if there is sufficient interest.
Cheers,
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.
And with it comes the only basic human d
which will, from Jack's input, create
output that is identical to his expanded text. I don't know whether it
is general enough (it's probably too general in places) but it could
serve as a starting point.
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be useful to someone. And I'm always on
the lookout for free beer when I'm travelling :^)
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ginning everything goes
south until the next time your indexer looks at the file.
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To s
nd
have, we can finally update the abc standard to reflect what your
program is doing, and everybody else will be eager to comply with what
is clearly the superior software package for abc on the market.
Everybody will be blissfully happy. I'm sincerely looking forward to
that time.
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looking at to get you started.
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Right now I'm having amnesia and deja
Debian net servers (and if you're online and have
your system set up correctly `apt-get install abc2ps' is all you're
going to have to say to obtain the current version), and the package is
probably not much use to others.
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sr/share/doc/abc2ps.
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ack to sheet music, but claiming that a text format geared towards
MIDI generation is better than one meant for representing sheet music is
comparing apples to oranges.
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I sometimes wonder if Microsoft keeps beating
the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution, or have you compiled your own source code? I maintain the
Debian abc2ps package and would be interested in working with you to
get any bugs in that package ironed out.
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and it would only clutter up my sheet music.
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again/But less/and less/and less. -- Piet Hein
be a way to arrange for the title of
the first »tune« to span the page in a suitably enlarged, bold,
... font but for the other tunes' titles to be displayed as »P:« is
today. This is something I would be perfectly happy with; in fact it
would please me even more than the current, slightly unsav
by
> formatters (and presumably ignored by most other software, though
> players might display it as the section is played).
I'm with you on this, John (SCD musicians unite!). Please could the P:
purists suggest another way of putting tune titles in a medley if they
don't want us
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard L Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is anyone aware of any abc collections of tunes used for
> International Folk Dancing?
John Chambers has a fair amount of stuff on his site but you have to
piece it together for yourself.
Anselm
However, I would think twice
about giving »"^number"« an official magical meaning like »If it
occurs before a full-bar rest this means ever so many bars of rest«,
since special cases like this tend to complicate the language until
you arrive at something like Perl :^)
There might be a bett
't have a lot of experience with SourceForge (yet), but I think
they have something called a »support manager« which is a WWW form
that will let you submit requests for support actions. This should be
reachable from the »Contact Us« link in the left-hand navigation bar.
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ifficult
to tell exactly to which stem the flag is attached in a
strathspey. Give me abc2ps any day.
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C++ has a really wonderful track record for compilers that disagree with
.
As Christophe says, one could probably gut the »emp« package to figure
out how to do this exactly. Actually, I quite like the idea. Would
there be interest in an »abcinc« LaTeX package? If enough people want
this I might be persuaded to work on such a beast and mak
ot;
The consequence of this is to support a »loose mode« as well as a
»picky mode«. You use loose mode for stuff that comes in from
elsewhere that doesn't pass in picky mode, and picky mode for stuff
that you are going to send out that you want to be 100% conforming to
the standard (or w
it is all that exciting but I might. If anybody else
wants to adopt this feel free -- it's only a 15-minute hack after all.
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Listen, appliance manufacturers: We don't NEED a dishwasher that we can
communicate with from afar. If
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# abc2chord.pl
# 19 Sep 2000 Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
use Getopt::Long;
$keep = "XTMK";
GetOptions("keep=s" => \$keep);
while (<>) {
# keep only header lines listed on --keep=... option
if (($header) = /^([A-Z])
ther by Praetorius (»Volta«), played as a guitar duo by none other
than John Williams (the guitarist, not the conductor) and Kevin
J. Peek. It also contains an eclectic mix of other pieces from the
17th century to contemporary.
The CD seems to be available through Amazon in the IMPORT section.
Anselm
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