On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:29:17AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote: > > When trying to fit abcusers in a few groups having > > [1] abc-sightreaders (without much need for software) > > [2] abc-collectors > > [3] abc-software-only-users (1st language) > > [4] abc-as- interchange-file-format-users (2nd language) > > > > Two questions arise > > - is this a meaningful division? > > - if so, how large do we expect the groups to be? > > > > My answer to the first question is -of course- yes ;-) > > The second is the hard one my first (wild)guess would be: > > 1: <200 (1%) > > 2: <500 (3%) > > 3: >1000, <10000 (30%) > > 4: >10000 (66%) the remainder > > Any thoughts? > > I don't know what the second category means.
It seems to have come out of an idea that some people make use of the "information" fields ... stricly speaking, I suppose it'd be anyone who doesn't delete an ABC file once they've printed/midi'ed/whatever'ed it ? Or, how many tunes does it take to make a "collection" ? > The third seems a wild overestimate - surely the only program > that does interchange to any other general-purpose score format > in a meaningful way is Bryan's Noteworthy convertor? There was a posting recently on uk.comp.os.linux, from someone who wants to make a book of mixed music & text. It looks as though the "reccomended" approach is lilypond-book, which seems to behave as Chris' abc2mtex did - write LaTeX with blocks of music (in lilypond, rather than abc) which get picked out and converted. Which reminded me of abc2ly. I looked at that once and found it wouldn't deal with large amounts of my abc ... which leads me to realise we've never really mentioned it. But it's abc-reading software, whatever the output (I think Laura uses it, I'm not sure how many others do). I'm not sure if the distinction between abc-only software and converters-toother-formats is meaningful - after all, midi, ps, png, whatever, are other file formats, too. Surely the main point is that all software needs to parse ABC ? -- 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
