Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, I. Oppenheim wrote:
Yes, and it all spelled out in section 6 (clefs) of the
standard. [K:bass middle=D] will achieve exactly what
you want.
The standard says:
middle=pitch is an alternate way to define the line number of the clef.
The pitch
Richard Robinson wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:14
So all we can do is, find all abc programs that aren't being maintained,
and document the common subset :(
I think it would be appropriate to have a section in the standard on
legacy applications. If it's documented that abc2win and
T.M. Sommers wrote:
henrik wrote:
There is one serious problem with changing the BNF spec to literal
strings
being case sensitive - places where we don't want case sensitiveness
become horribly complicated! E.g. dor dorian DOR Dor Dorian etc
should all
be allowed, but the BNF for case
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 13:52 US/Eastern, Buddha Buck wrote:
On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 06:43 US/Eastern, Bernard Hill wrote:
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chemnitz.de, Joerg Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
A short remark about this. Somtimes open source is equated with
cost free. But even
John Walsh wrote:
Ah yes, the M word. I think I added my own bit to the confusion,
tho not, I hope, to the flames. What is clear is that there are a couple
of definitions of macro floating around. They overlap but don't
coincide; and there are a couple of different types of macro in
Jeff Bigler wrote:
There's been a lot of traffic on this topic already. Two things I'd
like to emphasize:
I'd recommend that in general, we try not to add features to the
standard unless:
a) there is consensus (or at least an overwhelming majority opinion)
as to what the feature
I. Oppenheim wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, David Webber wrote:
I suspect that the only things the abc standard has
to worry about, as far as applications on different
platforms go, is to do with specification of text
fonts
The actual font type to be used is a typical issues for
the stylesheet
Georg Hajdu wrote:
4/8 sharp IS a full sharp (as you know, the reference interval is
always a whole tone). Therefore labeling it ^4 may be a bit
misleading, but it's ok if you can use the symbols alternatively.
Other than that, I like it.
Microtonal notation is mostly used to _approximate_
John Chambers wrote:
Chris comments:
| Ooh, I like this one better. I imagine it's what you use in
| tune-finder, am I right? It give a nice compact image (unlike convert,
| which makes too much whitespace), and quite small files as well (reduced
| by about a factor of 10).
Yup; I just copied my
A friend of mine is a whistle/flageolet player and has whistles in all
the popular keys -- but knows only the fingerings for the D-whistl to
sight-read by. Rumor has it that most whistle tunes are written in D or
G keys, even if they are intended to be played in other keys by suitable
choice
Kurt Kleiner wrote:
On 30-Jan-2003 John Chambers wrote:
This sort of site is a real threat to the recording industry, and is
really what the music piracy fuss is all about. Their main goal is
to take control of the Internet and put distribution back into the
hands of the oligopoly. The
John Chambers wrote:
(Does this qualify as sufficiently funny to be a musical joke? ;-)
It may be funny, but I don't think it's a joke. I think it falls into
the ha ha only serious category. There is, unfortunately, a lot of
truth in it. (I myself am a computer programmer, but I barely
Toby Rider wrote:
Can I repost those comments elsewhere off-list, with proper attribution
(of course)?
Which comments? Hopefully not the one about my friends having lot's of
tattos and piercings.. :-)
I've no problem with tatoos and piercings -- except that I've never felt
strongly about
At 10:13 AM 08-12-2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Jack Campin wrote -
OK, I'm with you and it's growing on me. It would be necessary for
something I saw the other day which would need to be written
[d6z2]2[B2G2][B2G2] although there would still need to be intelligence
within
As I understand it, the tune finder does the following for every tune:
1. Extracts it from the source file
2. puts it into a canonical form:
a. strips leading and trailing blank lines
b. changes the line endings to a standard form
c. (dunno about this one) strips trailing
At 11:03 AM 06-05-2002 -0700, Don Parrish-Bell you wrote:
Ok, Atte. I will check that out when I get to it. So it's possible to
adjust existing abc
tunes without major rewrites? A more global way of setting up the
note-to-note spacing?
abc has absolutely nothing to do with internote spacing
At 10:44 AM 06-04-2002 -0700, Don Parrish-Bell you wrote:
I haven't had the opportunity to try to encode anything yet, but I look
forward to doing
so. I'm saving the tons of posts from everyone so I can go back through
for hints on
various things when I do get to that point.
One thing to keep
At 03:08 PM 05-21-2002 +0100, Jack Campin you wrote:
I suggested an approach to this in the keep-it-simple spirit of ABC
some while ago. A lot of percussion scores use a one-line staff for
each instrument, with the note stems going up for the right hand and
down for the left. I
At 11:38 AM 05-16-2002 -0700, Don Parrish-Bell you wrote:
Hi,
I hope you are not referring to me as a non-subscriber .. I just
subscribed yesterday.
Were you the one who sent Russian (I'm assuming, it was some form of
Cyrillic text) spam to the list? Are you the one who's been trying to
At 06:35 PM 05-01-2002 +, John Chambers you wrote:
| On the other hand, I still think that the lack of a way to represent
| dynamics and certain other commonly-used symbols is ABC's biggest
| handicap.
We could get into a real debate over what's the most serious handicap
in ABC. My vote
At 12:52 PM 02-06-2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Erik Ronström wrote:
I think I'd get your point anyway.
I don't think you do get my point. It seems self-evident to me that ABC
is pseudo-staff notation. You have made it clear *that* you disagree,
At 08:30 AM 01-31-2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Hi,
I have been following this discussion with interest. Maybe that shows my
level of boredom, but. ;-)
If you use ABC just as a way to save staff notation, and
expect translations of ABC into staff notation to look in a
At 10:37 AM 01-31-2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
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Excuuse me!
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to come off sounding like an ass, but I can see
how I might have.
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)2 structure (or similar, I'd have to
double-check), so the first two repeat starts were adjacent, and
*obviously* different.
Laurie
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At 01:34 PM 12-13-2001 +, James Allwright you wrote:
On Thu 13 Dec 2001 at 11:57AM +, Phil Taylor wrote:
A few things to consider when discussing repeat syntax:
* It has to coexist happily with other methods of specifying repeats,
such as the P: field in the header, and not rule
with P:(AB)3 in that case.
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At 03:18 PM 11-28-2001 +, Laurie Griffiths you wrote:
This is NOT directly ABC related, so you might call it Spam. If so, I
apologise. I will try not to do it often!
Taking some of Laura's pleas to heart I want to experiment with Open Source.
I'm not prepared to risk the source code of
At 03:40 PM 11-21-2001 +, James Allwright you wrote:
In an attempt to wrap up this thread, would the following proposal
for a new field meet everyone's requirements ?
Field Name: q:playing style
Header: Yes
Tune Body: No
Would this make it impossible to transcribe music which is supposed
At 11:40 AM 11-15-2001 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
A couple of questions:
Q:Allegro
Should display Allegro. But for playback, should it use a default
tempo, or take a reasonable guess as to the appropriate beat, or generate
an error? The same question applies if Allegro is used
At 08:12 PM 11-15-2001 +, Steve Mansfield you wrote:
Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote :
A lot of Playford stuff is available from the US Library of Congress
(they have a special page on the history of dancing, the URL of which
escapes me right now), so one could go back right to the
At 05:11 PM 11-14-2001 +0100, Bert Van Vreckem wrote:
I found a site of a Michael Robinson that's into traditional music, but
the Playford transcription isn't mentioned:
http://www.sirius.com/~ststones/. There's other abc stuff there, though.
Actually, he has, buried in his Standing Stones
At 11:53 AM 10-23-2001 -0500, Taral you wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:04:48PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote:
What did you have in mind for the output of your library Taral?
int abc_find_index(int fd, int index);
song *abc_parse_song(int fd);
(Yes, I have the 'song' structure defined. It's big,
Laurie Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(I sent the following before my latest post and it hasn't turned up here -
so I'm reposting on the assumption that it has fallen into a bitbucket or a
timewarp).
I saw it earlier.
Unfortunately, there are some problems as far as I'm concerned both
Steve Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Someone (name with-held to protect the terminally stupid) has just
posted the following to the feedback part of my abc tutorial site ...
I AM VERY DISAPOINTED WITH ABC TO CONTINUE BILL MAHER TO STAY ON TV
AFTER THE THINGS HE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE
At 01:32 PM 09-27-2001 -0400, Stephen Black wrote:
Would someone mind telling us what this is?? It certainly doesn't look like
abc to me!
It looks Chinese to me -- or at least, the characters my mailer showed me
looked Chinese. It definitely wasn't Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese.
I don't read
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