| On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:31:50PM +, John Chambers wrote:
| When I first ran across abc, I was quite impressed by the fact that
| it (abc2ps actually) accepted M:7/8 without complaint and did the
| Right Thing. When I tried M:4+3+4/16, it also did exactly what I
| wanted it
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:48:04PM +, John Chambers wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:31:50PM +, John Chambers wrote:
| When I first ran across abc, I was quite impressed by the fact that
| it (abc2ps actually) accepted M:7/8 without complaint and did the
| Right Thing.
Richard Robinson writes:
| On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:48:04PM +, John Chambers wrote:
|
| On the other hand, when I first tried transcribing some Zwiefacher
| tunes, I also discovered that abc2ps accept M:23/44 and did the, uh,
| Right Thing with it, too. I was appalled!
|
| ;-)
|
|
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Richard Robinson writes:
| On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:48:04PM +, John Chambers wrote:
|
| On the other hand, when I first tried transcribing some Zwiefacher
| tunes, I also discovered that abc2ps accept M:23/44 and did
There has been quite a bit of discussion about features which are not
part of standard notation and yet are acceptable in abc.
Fine. But I propose that all such things are NOT implemented in version
2 but wait for version 3. This would include
strange key signatures.
N-times repeats ::| etc
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:38:29AM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote:
There has been quite a bit of discussion about features which are not
part of standard notation and yet are acceptable in abc.
Fine. But I propose that all such things are NOT implemented in version
2 but wait for version 3.
Bernard Hill writes:
|
| You *have* to make your standards document intelligible
| by normal musicians if ...
Normal musicians - what a concept!
(Are there enough of them in the world that we should pay
any attention to what they think?)
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I. Oppenheim writes:
|
| What you call strange key signatures, is standard
| notation among musicologists, Klezmer musicians etc.
| Finale can certainly deal with them, even a simple
| program like Noteworthy Composer has support for them!
|
| If there are any other features that you would
Richard Robinson writes:
| On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:38:29AM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote:
|
| One possible counter-argument would be, that if ABC was able to express
| things that no other software can, just imagine the explosion of
| usefulness. Tunes might start turning up containing information
John == John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John (I do think abc could use some competition, though. When are we going
John to see some big Lilypond or MusicML web sites?)
Mine's a pretty big Lilypond web site. There are pointers to a couple
of others on the lilypond page. In
From: John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(I do think abc could use some competition, though. When are we going
to see some big Lilypond or MusicML web sites?)
I don't know how big is big but the digital tradition database is the
largest collection of folksongs I know of on the Internet. The dt
Jon Freeman writes:
| From: John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| (I do think abc could use some competition, though. When are we going
| to see some big Lilypond or MusicML web sites?)
|
| I don't know how big is big but the digital tradition database is the
| largest collection of folksongs I
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