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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:41:01 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Taylor)
Bernard Hill wrote:
Why is it so great? What's wrong with z8 (or z6 or whatever is
appropriate)?
Presumably because you can write | Z5 | and have the program interpret
it as
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jack Campin
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John Norvell wrote:
In this line
BBe2A4 e2 :| Z ||!
what does the Z mean?
A Rest.
But I wonder if it meas a whole bar rest (uppercase) - z8 is more usual
assuming L:1/8
So is Z a new symbol for a full bar rest?
Bernard
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
So is Z a new symbol for a full bar rest?
Uppercase Z means a full bar rest, Z# with # a natural
number means multibar rest. This is documented in the
abc2midi documentation, together with several other
common extensions.
Groeten,
Irwin Oppenheim
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Good grief, is anyone ever going to put all this lot together? It's not
in the official standard or the draft extension. How are developers
supposed to work with this mish-mash?
I missed this one (a single uppercase 'Z' meaning 1 measure rest), but
a
From: Bernard Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good grief, is anyone ever going to put all this lot together?
It's not
in the official standard or the draft extension. How are
developers
supposed to work with this mish-mash?
My feeling exactly. It is severely inhibiting my enthusiasm for
writing an
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:04:32AM +0200, Guido Gonzato wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote:
Good grief, is anyone ever going to put all this lot together? It's not
in the official standard or the draft
Bernard Hill wrote:
Why is it so great? What's wrong with z8 (or z6 or whatever is
appropriate)?
Presumably because you can write | Z5 | and have the program interpret
it as | z8 | z8 | z8 | z8 | z8 |, thus saving a lot of typing. If it's
any consolation, while this has been discussed here I
John Norvell wrote:
All of the tunes (hundreds) in my private collection use |!(newline)
as the line terminator.
Attached are a few examples.
Which all look a bit odd, as if you'd formatted them carefully for
source-readability and then some gremlin intervened to insert random
amounts of
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:51:29PM +0100, Jack Campin wrote:
John Norvell wrote:
I've never heard of using ! in the middle of a line as a terminator
and think that we should deprecate that usage.
Why? Lots of abc2win users do it and as I've been arguing, a lot
more people ought to,
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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] ABC examples with bang?
John Norvell wrote:
All of the tunes (hundreds) in my private collection use |!(newline)
as the line terminator.
Attached are a few examples.
Which all look a bit odd, as if you'd formatted them carefully
John Norvell wrote:
Most notation programs are pretty good about figuring out how much music can
comfortably fit on a staff. I think by default we should let them do as
they please unless they see a |!newline which is our way of saying break
because I say so.
You could always do that in abc by
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jack Campin
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Gg^fa! g2G2 TA4|F2 f4F2 ABcA |Gg^fa g2G2 TA4|G2 g4 G2 ABcA
H::
Notice how easy it is to ignore the linebreaks when reading the source if
you aren't interested. That's the point - most of the time you *will*
Bernard == Bernard Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bernard But why would you want to put :: at the end of the tune
Bernard when :| is correct notation? Do you really want to see a
Bernard repeat-both-ways barline at the end? I think not.
In modern notation you wouldn't, but if you
Bernard Hill writes:
|
| And a fermata over the final bar has no meaning either. You could put it
| over the final note, but a fermata over a barline means a pause here
| and that has no meaning at the end, I suggest.
Actually, that's not an uncommon thing in printed music,
though it is
Hello,
I've been unable to find ABC files with the much-talked-about bang (!) for
breaking lines. Could any good soul send me some examples? It's for
extending abcpp to deal with this beast.
Thank you,
Guido =8-)
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Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. guido . gonzato at univr . it - Linux System
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:29 AM
Subject: [abcusers] ABC examples with bang?
Hello,
I've been unable to find ABC files with the much-talked-about bang (!) for
breaking lines. Could any good soul send me some examples? It's
I've been unable to find ABC files with the much-talked-about
bang (!) for breaking lines. Could any good soul send me some
examples? It's for extending abcpp to deal with this beast.
Here's another one using it the way I want to. The point of
reproducing the original linebreaks isn't just
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