Re: [abcusers] Re: ABC, AHC, Do-Re-Mi

2000-07-09 Thread Richard Robinson
m too busy with summer, and being away and doing other things, but I'm saving it all for when I have time to think (if ever). There's all kinds of ideas I hadn't met before, that look like they might be useful for something if I could get my head round them. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged u

Re: [abcusers] Change of e-mail address to davidale6@hotmail.com

2000-09-27 Thread Richard Robinson
and the millions of other people who use MSN Explorer 'struth. Me, I use pine and SMTP. Can't MSN Explorer users exchange mail with me ? Goody, if that's the standard. What's happened to moderation ? This has been nothing to do with the abc mailing list. Thank you and goodnight. -- Richard Robinson

Re: [abcusers] Distributing DLLs

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Robinson
. ;-) ;-) -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] O'Neill's 1001

2000-10-02 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when does the Svenska Laatar Project begin? (How many volumes of that were there?) 24 :) You know the books have recently been re-published ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes"

Re: [abcusers] Modes (was O'Neill errors)

2000-10-10 Thread Richard Robinson
c.uk.music/Info/RRTuneBk finished a few days ago. It's been in the works since August of last year. And I'm not going to make it obsolete by typing up anything else for ... ooh, days, I hope :) -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S

Re: [abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #364

2000-10-13 Thread Richard Robinson
like: [impressive list] Two letters isn't going to do it, we need something extensible. Putting keywords in N: fields is a stopgap you can use meanwhile. Yes. Or invent your own %%private_keyword: fields, is another way round it. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged

Re: [abcusers] abc2ps and early ornament signs

2000-10-22 Thread Richard Robinson
haven't been using abc2mtex very intensively for a while, but it seems to work ok - no really obvious breakages, anyway. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Melodic Index

2000-12-05 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Frank Nordberg wrote: Richard Robinson wrote: ... There is something like that with my stuff, http://www,leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ A typo there, Richard: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ Oops. Ta :) -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan h

Re: [abcusers] The mailing list and the abc Users Community

2000-12-29 Thread Richard Robinson
things mostly do so because they want that behaviour to use in their abc, no ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] draft for V: retraction.....

2001-01-03 Thread Richard Robinson
1"end/beam /note Have you ever looked at raw musixtex, as, eg, hint hint, output from abc2mtex ? It's *far* nastier than that :) ie, if xml gives access to worthwhile stuff, how about an abc2xml converter ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity o

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-05 Thread Richard Robinson
aying some of theirs. If only in self-defence. :-)) -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-06 Thread Richard Robinson
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson [w]rites: | On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Wendy Galovich wrote: | |Really?? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls sound like in abc?? :-) | (Sorry John, I couldn't resist!) | | Quite right too - it's the best bit of bait I've seen in ages

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-07 Thread Richard Robinson
ry string of 3 or 4 consonants is a word, so you can "read" most sequences of random letters. Whether this is sensible is another question. Every 3 or 4 consonants, huh ? Coud we drag the idea of dna sequencing s/w in here too ? :-) -- Richard Robinson "The whole pla

Re: [abcusers] e-mailed ABC tunes

2001-01-17 Thread Richard Robinson
of RFC's ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] validation the ABC corpus

2001-01-23 Thread Richard Robinson
nyone else, but it's nice not to be "non-standard", when I can. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] abc server setup?

2001-02-22 Thread Richard Robinson
ss anybody knows better ? -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] The abc committee

2001-03-07 Thread Richard Robinson
to dislike everyone else. I don't think I'd want to work with you either. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] What programs do V: lines and how?

2001-03-23 Thread Richard Robinson
'%%' lines is to make sure that I keep identifiers within a namespace that won't conflict with anything else, unless-or-until there is an agreed standard usage. If there was such, I'd gladly convert to it. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes"

Re: [abcusers] to post or not to post

2001-04-03 Thread Richard Robinson
you've contacted the copyright holder and obtained their permission). -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] www.geocities.com/SoHo/9618/, www.celticmusic.co.nz

2001-06-04 Thread Richard Robinson
of the Village Music Project's more complete version of the earliest stuff, or is it a third thing (_was_ it. Damn. perhaps we'll never know) ? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] www.geocities.com/SoHo/9618/, www.celticmusic.co.nz

2001-06-04 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Frank Nordberg wrote: Richard Robinson wrote: I'm intrigued. There are Winders with manuscripts in Wyresdale, just down the way from Lancaster. Is this a copy of the one I typed up (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/Winder/Winder.abc)... That's the one. I

Re: [abcusers] www.geocities.com/SoHo/9618/, www.celticmusic.co.

2001-06-04 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Johnny Adams wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Frank Nordberg wrote: Richard Robinson wrote: I'm intrigued. There are Winders with manuscripts in Wyresdale, just down the way from Lancaster. Is this a copy of the one I typed up (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info

Re: [abcusers] midi2abc (was: Wanted: ABC transcription...)

2001-06-11 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Frank Nordberg wrote: I can't write a perl script to save my life, though. Curious thought. save_franks_life.pl -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software (was:midi2abc [was: Wanted: ABC transcription...])

2001-06-13 Thread Richard Robinson
of it). Hornpipe isn't exactly a unitary construct, though, there's a range of different weightings between the notepairs in different sub-styles. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software (was:midi2abc [was: Wanted: ABC transcription...])

2001-06-14 Thread Richard Robinson
, the R: field conveys this information (in fact that's about the only real use for that field). Doesn't follow. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] De facto standards

2001-06-15 Thread Richard Robinson
the standard and appears to argue for accepting it from abc2win. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software

2001-06-26 Thread Richard Robinson
. I hope this was not to mercyless, I still look foreward to every usefull addition to the standards. Hear hear. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] chords writing in abc/little V: comment

2001-07-10 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, John Chambers wrote: Modern GUIs are very well designed, for people with three hands. The real problem has been how slow customers have been to make necessary hardware upgrades to meet the requirements of the software. Quite ;-) -- Richard Robinson The whole plan

Re: [abcusers] Three-handed job.

2001-07-23 Thread Richard Robinson
... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread Richard Robinson
, of course, but if we can agree on something more generally useful, that would be better. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-25 Thread Richard Robinson
that I can use it to generate a URL that will stay the same regardless of how I might re-organise the files, add in new tunes, etc. Obviously, I'd like that to stay with the tune rather than getting changed by other peoples' re-numbering schemes (or, indeed, my own). -- Richard Robinson The whole

Re: [abcusers] RE: ABC transcrivers ID

2001-09-02 Thread Richard Robinson
addition unless the writers of the software in use choose to incorporate it. Even then there's always the John Chambers Case - people who read ABC directly and can't even be bothered to include an X: line :- but we can't do anything about that :) -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon

Re: [abcusers] merging voices

2001-09-30 Thread Richard Robinson
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson writes: | On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Laurie Griffiths wrote: | | %This is more subtle - Message 5 is encoded in the line breaks of the | source. | G | ABcd | e \ | fg | | I think I'll stop before the CIA try to extradite me

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Taral wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:56:15PM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: |F2A2BcF2c2bc| Is this the same syntax that abc2mtex used to use ? And, is there much abc out there that uses it ? I used to have a few, I _think_ I've migrated them all to use

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-23 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Taral wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:30:30AM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: Which, doesn't your abc2ps produce dotted notes ? Odd thing, though. My (a.b.c.d.) above ought, surely, to produce staccato notes with a slur over them ? In fact, the first note doesn't

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-24 Thread Richard Robinson
by anybody that cares to take part, linked into your front-end code, might make your life easier too ? I'm sorry, as a non-VB programmer I don't know how VB links to a C library, but I imagine it must be possible by now. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-26 Thread Richard Robinson
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Robinson said - Consider the possibility that a separately-maintained ABC library, open-source bug-fixed by anybody that cares to take part, linked into your front-end code, might make your life easier too ? I'm sorry, as a non-VB

Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was)

2001-10-31 Thread Richard Robinson
of the same association of standard and software project and used my now notorious outlaw reference. She then said that she was simply making two separate points in the same email and I (if you recall) apologised. I may have been a little premature in doing so as, since then, Richard Robinson

Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was)

2001-11-02 Thread Richard Robinson
actually contributing something constructive, I'll consider removing my filter. If anybody's left reading them, to notice it. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com

Re: [abcusers] a request to developers

2001-11-28 Thread Richard Robinson
. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] links and anchors

2001-10-10 Thread Richard Robinson
to build a full read-write interface to an abc collection via http (possibly via a perl::DBI module or somesuch) but it would require any user to install a raft of software, and is likely to be more trouble all round than it's worth. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural

Re: [abcusers] Re: DA:

2001-10-15 Thread Richard Robinson
_lots_ of characters before the colon, so long as the first 2 are '%%'. Well, only the first one, strictly, but 2 has become conventional for things that at least one program expects to parse. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem

Re: [abcusers] Linux abc HOWTO

2001-12-20 Thread Richard Robinson
the little scraps all gathered together, could save some time, and might draw a few peoples' attention to ABC as well. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Re: OT: hornpipes

2002-02-28 Thread Richard Robinson
) as a translation for chalumeau, which is also said to have been a forerunner of the clarinet -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://wwwtullochgormcom/listshtml

Re: [abcusers] another mystery tune, Norwegian this time

2002-03-05 Thread Richard Robinson
), but it may go back further than that. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-06 Thread Richard Robinson
of blowing up rest-of-the-world tunes is quite remarkable, and is wasting whole days out of my life. Has anybody succeeded in writing a translator ? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] Re: Encoding linefeeds

2002-03-08 Thread Richard Robinson
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Robinson said - I want to do some fiddling about with the body of VMP tunes, most of which come from abc2win. The number of ways this output has of blowing up rest-of-the-world tunes is quite remarkable, and is wasting whole days out

Re: [abcusers] Where's the Music

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Robinson
be necessary to have the use of a browser to access a mailing list ?) is there anything to stop them going Oh, sorry, we did it again next month ? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

RE: [abcusers] Re: abcusers-digest V1 #668

2002-04-12 Thread Richard Robinson
into a wave Depending on your machine, of course; that would be for what, Windows ? If you're on a linux box, timidity is what you need. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] re : parts, repeats...

2002-04-22 Thread Richard Robinson
, and would like to check (or improve on) my hand-edited/perl-mangled versions. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] from ABC to image

2002-04-23 Thread Richard Robinson
the parameters the program's working with so that everything will fit on one page. I've just played around with sizes in abc2ps's format file, and I get PS output exceeds reserved space per staff -- increase BUFFSZ1. Which means recompiling. Bleargh. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon

Re: [abcusers] re : parts, repeats...

2002-04-23 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson wrote: | On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, John Chambers wrote: | if I could digress a little for a minute (without altogether dropping the | topic of standards) ... your Tune Finder, if asked for midi :- is this | equivalent to doing abc2midi

[abcusers] Tune Comparisons

2002-04-24 Thread Richard Robinson
from my own Tunebook (Aird, Winder, a few other scraps). First results are at http://www.beulah.demon.co.uk/tunecomparisons.html -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] RE : from ABC to image

2002-04-24 Thread Richard Robinson
? Circularity alert ... ! Also pdfTeX. The usual free suspects, in fact. I originally took up Linux because it seemed simpler than getting TeX running on DOS. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser

Re: [abcusers] Save 70% to 80% on Term Life Insurance

2002-04-26 Thread Richard Robinson
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, I. Oppenheim wrote: What has this got to do with ABC? On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The junkmailers have got hold of the address. There will be more of this ... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem

Re: [abcusers] Action against spam, was: KAMPANYALARINIZ iCiN, MUHTESEM KAMPANYA.!! -

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Robinson
. I vote for only allowing subscribers to post here. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Robinson
? That can't be right. But, it can be used to *notate* it, sure. Just, abc2midi won't playback right unless that's what you happen to want. yaps, using the same parser, will _display_ it fine. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Robinson
should be ready for the web before long). -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F F (and F F2) problems

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Robinson
to hear a strathspey played like a strathspey once in a while), but as a default, it's wrong. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Tune comparisons, again

2002-06-03 Thread Richard Robinson
it uses - and which made this possible, I really didn't want to write my own :) -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Embro, Embro CD-ROM

2002-06-12 Thread Richard Robinson
. Yes. And since GIF is supported within a browser, it reduces the supporting software that's needed. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Antialiasing

2002-06-14 Thread Richard Robinson
the antialias setting, wondered what it was, flipped the setting, and saw some very nice music notation suddenly appear on the screen. I hadn't realised this until you just mentioned it. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe

Re: [abcusers] Antialiasing

2002-06-15 Thread Richard Robinson
and asking around convinced me that there were just too many browsers that wouldn't do it. Newer versions might, but that doesn't mean older ones have disappeared. When does the Unisys LZW patent run out, anyway ? It can't be long now, surely ? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon

Re: [abcusers] Re: Modes (and iabc skink)

2002-06-26 Thread Richard Robinson
came in.) I came in around 1.4 ... I rather think major/minor came first, and modes were added on a bit after that. Not that it makes much difference. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

[abcusers] Some things never go away ...

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Robinson
would be for one of the authors to include a little file listing what their conversion routine knows about ? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Some things never go away ...

2002-07-03 Thread Richard Robinson
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Frank Nordberg wrote: Richard Robinson wrote: Lists have been posted here, once or twice, ... Don't be modest, Richard. *You* have posted a very useful list here at the list a couple of times. I've taken the liberty to include it in the abcyclopedia at: http

Re: [abcusers] Sidmouth

2002-07-25 Thread Richard Robinson
chord he was improvinsing harmonies apparently unfazed by playing in seven sharps). I cheated ... it's an A clarinet. But, thanks anyway :) -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] Re : suggestions for [A4A2] notation

2002-08-11 Thread Richard Robinson
was working on the tunes-comparison program, I was glad I had. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] sourceforge homepage

2002-09-23 Thread Richard Robinson
an answer to the questions that I have at the moment. I've had a look at the sourceforge ABC pages a few times, but find it really confusing to get around. I'm not sure I've even managed to ever get to any of the software. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity

Re: [abcusers] Musica Viva, latest news (Was: Goodbye)

2002-11-20 Thread Richard Robinson
could check the notes of Dowland's Mistress Winters' Jump, which I've been learning from a local melodeon player (!!). Intriguing title, good tune. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] Operator precedence

2003-01-02 Thread Richard Robinson
notes on either side, unlike the flat symbol. You get a similar situation with grace notes, so abc{g}d and abc{g}d are equivalent to one another. Except in which of them causes errors in which program. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem

Re: [abcusers] more abc interpretation questions

2003-01-20 Thread Richard Robinson
for abc2mtex. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: Kid and cat

2003-01-29 Thread Richard Robinson
laugh even without a punchline. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: Kid and cat

2003-01-30 Thread Richard Robinson
. :-) Yes ... I have 3 brothers. All 4 of us are musicians of some sort, and 3 of us are involved to some extent in persuading computers to do what we want them to. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser

Re: [abcusers] abc in web pages

2003-01-31 Thread Richard Robinson
. EPS is typically many times bigger. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] abc in web pages

2003-02-01 Thread Richard Robinson
. That's a big gig. I hope it turns out well for all concerned. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] abc in web pages

2003-02-02 Thread Richard Robinson
? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] ABC transposition tool?

2003-02-25 Thread Richard Robinson
. Though, after 25 years of doing that it still slows me down when I'm writing a tune down. Out-by-a-3rd errors everywhere (A clt). -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com

[abcusers] Scripts [was: multi line footer in abcm2ps]

2003-03-01 Thread Richard Robinson
except the GUI-ness ? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] source and copyright

2003-03-17 Thread Richard Robinson
anything in there ... if you wanted to search for it, as you might, it would be nice to have something more specific. I use %%Copyright: -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] abc standard and application-dependence

2003-07-02 Thread Richard Robinson
. Incidentally, I've just realised that my messages to this list haven't been making it through for the last few months, following major reorganisations here. I _hope_ this is now fixed. We shall see ... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem

Re: [abcusers] ABC home page

2003-07-02 Thread Richard Robinson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:04:12AM -0700, Toby Rider wrote: Wow this is the most active I've seen this list in months.. New blood, eh ? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

Re: [abcusers] About BarFly m: macros

2003-07-03 Thread Richard Robinson
developers are willing to implement m: in their programs, that't fine. Otherwise, abcpp will do the job for them. Which is nice :) -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com

Re: [abcusers] codepages

2003-07-03 Thread Richard Robinson
... you're going to want non-127 accented characters. If you don't write lyrics you'll want them for a tune title. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] codepages

2003-07-03 Thread Richard Robinson
? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] A bit of history

2003-07-03 Thread Richard Robinson
be nice to have the option ... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

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

2003-07-03 Thread Richard Robinson
to the why write Free Software ? question - Eric Raymond's Many eyeballs make any bugs shallow. Which seems to lead to the conclusion that programs that need paying for don't work as well, which is distinctly perverse and I'm sure it ain't necessarily so ... runs away, fast -- Richard Robinson

Re: [abcusers] bloody ! again

2003-07-04 Thread Richard Robinson
mean ... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] K:Hp anyone?

2003-07-08 Thread Richard Robinson
, which plays a semitone higher than this (ish ...) A mix, D maj, B minor, E dor ... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] K:Hp anyone?

2003-07-09 Thread Richard Robinson
something like stylesheets these could recommend a suitable one ... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Re: chord lengths

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Robinson
calculus and therefore might not have been a general-purpose pronunciation. I've heard pling used, but it's not usual (I know nothing about the pi calculus, btw. Maybe this is relevant). Most commonly in the UK, I think we'd call it an exclamation mark. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged

Re: Kind of solved (Re: [abcusers] Accented characters in lyrics

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Robinson
, as abc, to other peoples' machines ? -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: Kind of solved (Re: [abcusers] Accented characters in lyrics

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Robinson
, but are they, or are they ad-hoc-ery that just look the same ? I needed a 'c' with an inverted caret, a while back, and had a foul time trying to find someting that worked, so this looks like something I could get to like ... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S

Re: [abcusers] ABC examples with bang?

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Robinson
of a text line we might as well stick with a text CR/LF linebreak. The only value to an explicit linebreak would be if it could occur anywhere in a text line. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser

Re: [abcusers] Announcement - abcpp 1.3.0 released

2003-07-11 Thread Richard Robinson
' abc2win files and make them compatible with bang-less applications. What about :|: ? I think this is another abc2win-ism (?) which not all programs seem to cope with. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your

Re: Kind of solved (Re: [abcusers] Accented characters in lyrics

2003-07-11 Thread Richard Robinson
of stating them just as accents instead, \v \ etc, and saying that they apply to whatever the following character is. Rather easier for a user to get a grip on, I think. Though the a-ring doesn't work like that in TeX ... -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity

Re: [abcusers] Announcement - abcpp 1.3.0 released

2003-07-11 Thread Richard Robinson
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:14:22PM +, John Chambers wrote: Richard Robinson writes: | What about :|: ? I think this is another abc2win-ism (?) which not all | programs seem to cope with. ... You might be impressed by the variety of inventive bar lines that are in use in abc

Re: [abcusers] proposal for developers: modular ABC

2003-07-07 Thread Richard Robinson
list) Is there still another ABC list? It's all right, the developer's list died a long time ago. -- Richard Robinson The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] what's your Walshaw number?

2003-07-14 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: After meeting Richard Robinson at the Newcastleton festival the weekend before last and playing a few tunes in the same sessions (there can't have been many Scottish tune sessions featuring two clarinets before) No, there have been

Re: [abcusers] what's your Walshaw number?

2003-07-14 Thread Richard Robinson
as a Banjo Hitter... So, thanks to you, maybe I'll rename the instrument Hammer Banjo. Phil PS What made you guess at dulcimer? - Original Message - From: Richard Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [abcusers] what's your Walshaw number? And, while I think of it ... Phil

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