Re: [abcusers] Please Add To 1.7.6 Standard

2004-04-22 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:14:58PM -0400, John Kraybill wrote: > !mp! - mezzo pioano (medium soft) > !fp! - forte piano (loud-soft) > I would like to have them added before 1.7.6 becomes official. "Me too", particularly !mp!. thanks, Dave To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to

Re: [abcusers] xml<->abc under linux

2003-12-12 Thread Dave Holland
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:50:05PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote: > What are the possibilities (if any) for converting between abc <-> > musicxml under linux? I need to to is from the commandline if that makes > any difference... http://www.biff.org.uk/dave/software/abc2xml.html Dave To subscr

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Holland
(just to address one point) On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:49:21PM +, John Chambers wrote: > One of the problems that I think I've seen in my occasional looks at > MusicXML is that it permits the representation of music as a pile of > isolated notes, with no clues as to their structure. If you h

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 do

Re: [abcusers] mup

2003-10-13 Thread Dave Holland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:03:23PM +0200, 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. I think it would be more use to have a program for each forma

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps hangs

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:37:21PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: > I'm seeing some problems with the Mac version of abcm2ps (v3.6.2) > where it hangs up on certain tunes and has to be killed. Just as a data point, your example works fine for me, with 3.6.3 on Linux (and it doesn't report any overfull

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps hangs

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:40:33PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: > Hmm, it couldn't be a problem of page size I suppose? I'd *guess* that that's unlikely, since I use A4, which is narrower than Letter, and hence more likely to provoke overfull line errors... but I could be wrong. Dave To subscribe/u

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-16 Thread Dave Holland
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:50:40PM +, John Chambers wrote: > (Has anyone written any musical parodies in abc yet? Aside from the > good old 4'33", that is.) I wrote an arrangement of "The Morning Star" (from O'Neill) for string quartet using ABC, but I'm not sure that's the kind of thing you

Re: [abcusers] Free notation program for Windows - let's write it...

2003-07-04 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:33:01PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: > Why are there no professional musicians who perform without being paid > for it? Surely you are not trying to say that no professional musician would ever perform without payment! I know some who do. Charity events, playing for fun or

Re: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread Dave Holland
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:21:51AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a real "guideline"? I've never heard that one before. I think it's the generally accepted way in Western classical music. As you imply, jazz may have its own conventions (I don't know much about jazz). Dave To subscribe

Re: [abcusers] mobile phones as a commercial opportunity

2003-03-21 Thread Dave Holland
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:32:18AM +, Jack Campin wrote: > I've just found out, via uk.media.radio.archers, of all places, > that mobile phones use MIDI for their ringtones. Some do, particularly the most recent phones. Older models may use a format called RTX or RTTTL. > I am not sure how >

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-19 Thread Dave Holland
I wasn't going to contribute again to this off-topic discussion, but I have some news which might be welcome. The mail-archive.com administrator has recently said: | Finally, the more stringent address obfuscation suggest | (i.e. clobbering the domain completely in message bodies) | is (finally)

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:29:43AM +0100, Dave Holland wrote: > http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#spam does say that email addresses > will be obfuscated when they are present in the archive, but as Jack > noted, it's not always done. I will report that. It appears that the

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:36:17PM -0700, Toby Rider wrote: > They're probably subscribed to the abcusers list. Since you are a > list subscriber, you can send majordomo a "who" command, and go through the > entire list of abcuser subscribers, find any email addresses that look > su

Re: [abcusers] unsubscribe

2002-07-04 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:49:43PM -0700, Toby Rider wrote: > I removed this guy and a bunch of others that were in the queue. Sorry, > I've been pretty behind on all this stuff since recovering from my accident. Sorry to hear about your accident. Nothing serious, I hope. This illustrates

Re: [abcusers] Multiline footer and page number

2002-01-23 Thread Dave Holland
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:08:43AM +, John Chambers wrote: > Yeah; me too. I haven't yet learned enough about PS, but I suspect > there oughta be a way to take an arbitrary page and add headers and > footers independently. You could let abc*2ps produce the PS for the > music, and then w

Re: [abcusers] attachements to the lists.

2002-01-23 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:30:53PM +, Jack Campin wrote: > crypto signatures contribute absolutely > nothing except clutter and annoyance. Have to disagree there... > Hs anybody here ever run a PGP > verifier over Taral's sig to authenticate one of his or her messages? Yes; my email program

Re: [abcusers] attachements to the lists.

2002-01-16 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:39:47PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: > I think it would be friendlier to just put a size limit on postings. I agree. I also admin a few lists and 40KB seems plenty for the abc users list. Dave To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/li