I stand corrected. However, I tink a lot of the problems you list are resolvable by intelligent use of the words/chords features in abc - ie: they're mostly added text.
I also think it's useful to distinguish between what the abc specification allows and what particular player or print programs do. Regards, Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Campin > Sent: 11 October 2002 12:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [scots-l] Re: Music source books > > > >> No can do. Skinner's books use a lot of fiddle-specific notation that > >> ABC can't represent. > > I'm not convinced. Could you give us some examples? > > Opening "The Scottish Violinist" at random, I hit page 48. All the > tunes on the page have fermatas, which are doable in most current > implementations of ABC but I think not in the same way. > > "The Rolling Spey" has: > > - dal segno (not specified in ABC so any player program can use it), > with the segno placed between a gracenote group and the following > note (that's going to be a fun one to implement) > - last-time-round ending (also not an ABC control structure) > - finger numbers > - crescendos and diminuendos across several notes, in one case with > a sforzando hairpin within the scope of the diminuendo > - indications "4 bows", "16" and "12 bows" for three bars > - straight slurs between staccato notes > - ties between notes marked as staccato > - double stops on the same note with one of them having a slurred > gracenote, (^d[e2)e2] - you *can* write that in ABC but I doubt if > any two programs will interpret it the same way > > "Professor Blackie" adds: > > - alternate individual notes for first and second time (at least > I presume they aren't meant as double stops) > - acciaccaturas > - looped ties (is that what you call them? - between the last two notes) > > "The Editor's Farewell" adds: > > - harmonics (that's what the circles on the e' and some other notes > mean, I think?) > - a kind of accent marked by a staccato dot with a dash under it > (at the end of bar 4) > > All three tunes have both a "genre" marking and "how to play it" marking > in different typefaces. > > On the facing page, "Hector the Hero" has a sample verse of the text > under the title, "Sarona" adds "rit. ... a tempo", and "Delnabo" has > turn-with-a-sharp (something long overdue in ABC), nested slurs (which > not all ABC software will get right or use the same syntax for) and > apparently wants something stopped with the 6th finger, which suggests > Skinner was wanting violinists to evolve as well as their notation. > > Perhaps no one fiddler will use all of that detail but representability > in ABC shouldn't be the criterion for what to leave out. > > =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> > =================== > > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List > - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
