[abcusers] Re: Tune identification

2003-10-12 Thread Peter Yarensky
;D7"FA/c/ "G"B.GG2:| > |:"G"gf/e/ .d.c B.cd2|"G"gf/e/ .d.c "D7"B.cA2|\ > "G"gf/e/ .d.c B.c d3/B/|"C"c/B/A/G/ "D7"FA/c/ "G"B.GG2:| Since I get the digest I hesitate to respond in case 20 others already have, but just in case, it's the Rakes of Mallow - great tune! Peter Yarensky To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] The abc Home Page

2003-08-17 Thread Peter Yarensky
I haven't seen anything about it since the notice that Chris Walshaw's abc home page had disappeared, which I verified for myself. However, I was just at John Chambers' abc site and clicked on the link for Chris Walshaw's web-wide abc index to see what would happen. I was taken right to it, and alo

[abcusers] Readability of abc

2003-07-23 Thread Peter Yarensky
Jack Campin wrote: > If you can't make your ABC source human-readable you shouldn't > be using it. If all you want is staff notation, Finale or > Sibelius will do it better. It's the other uses of ABC that > make it unique, and most of those uses depend on readability. As a user of abc I have t

[abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #939

2003-07-16 Thread Peter Yarensky
Guido Gonzato said, > And about those broken old ABC files, I remind > you that abcpp can fix most of them! and > using abcpp I've fixed lots of legacy ABC files. It would be nice if there > were a web-based "translation service" based on abcpp. I have no > experience on writing web applets; any

Re: [abcusers] My point of view on the abc standard

2003-07-02 Thread Peter Yarensky
Jon Freeman wrote, > I think you are taking a pretty narrow view here. Yes, abcm2ps is excellent > but it is pretty well useless to many people I know who may like to use abc. > What you see in the abcusers list tends to be the "geeks", the ones that are > quite happy to run command line programs,