Re: [abcusers] accents and other signs
Bonjour, Jean-François > De : Jean-Francois Moine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : [abcusers] accents and other signs > Date : dimanche 1 juillet 2001 18:56 [...] > I have some questions about the accents and other signs as defined in > the ABC draft: > > - !open!, !snap! and !thumb! > Could anybody tell to me what are the glyphs and the implementation > rules for these signs? You could have at a look at 'Théorie de la musique' by A. DANHAUSER (Revised edition, 1996, Editions Henri Lemoine, Paris). As I understand it: - !open! is the symbol for (in French) 'harmoniques' on string instruments, and is a circle, see page 175 - !snap! is for (in French) 'pizz Bartok' on string instruments and is a circle with a vertical line crossing the circle and continuing up (if below the staff) or down (if above the staff) on about a half of the radius of the circle, see page 174 - I don't know anything about !thumb!, but I am a fiddler, not a cellist... [...] > - !repeatbar!, !repeatbar2!, ... > I think it is a kind of '%' meaning the previous measure shall be > repeated, but I don't think it is an accent. Instead, it should be > indicated as a regular music sign. > Could it be 'R' or 'r' (repeat)? Don't forget that 'R' is (if not redefined by a 'U' statement) for the 'roll' symbol. Thanks a lot for your work on abcm2ps! Amitiés. Christophe To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] accents and other signs
Henrik Norbeck wrote:
>Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
>> - !repeatbar!, !repeatbar2!, ...
>> I think it is a kind of '%' meaning the previous measure shall be
>> repeated, but I don't think it is an accent. Instead, it should be
>> indicated as a regular music sign.
>> Could it be 'R' or 'r' (repeat)?
>> The length indication, when present, would give the number of
>> measures, just like the multi-measure rest ('Z') I implemented in
>> abcm2ps.
>
>As I understand the idea behind the draft standard, the
>!something! can be used for accents, but also for other symbols. I
>would say that the parts of the draft dealing with redefinable
>symbols (using the U: and u: fields) should be reformulated a bit.
>So if you want R for repeat, just define:
>U: R = !repeatbar!
Reformulated is an understatement. That section of the draft standard
is total mess. It confuses and conflates the ideas of redefinable
symbols and macros, while introducing the totally unnecessary !text!
construction. I've had both things working in BarFly for several
years, using the syntax which was formulated back in the old abc
developers group. It works beautifully and I have no intention of
replacing it with something which is clearly inferior.
Phil Taylor
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Re: [abcusers] another pebble on the beach
Jack Campin wrote: >Another version of Shingly Beach, using lots of BarFly-specific tricks >to fit it on one page, landscape format. Sent as an attachment in case >of linewrap problems. I'll leave it to Phil to turn it into a GIF with >the latest anti-aliasing version. See http://rbu01.ed-rbu.mrc.ac.uk/shingly.gif >(Phil: you will notice a bug in the display of the C crotchet in >bar 4, Looks OK to me. >an ugly blob in the F-crotchet-against-G-quaver at the end of >the second line, Yes, if you want a program to be fast enough to let you do live editing, and run on 8-year old machines you have to draw the line somewhere, and scanning every note to see if it conflicts with any other in any voice is a little beyond that line. (Mind you, so is antialiassing, unless you've got a fast PowerMac, so it might come in as an option at some point.) >and that "y" is a hack that shouldn't be needed). Same applies. The 'y' gets you where you want to be without using a lot of processor cycles. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
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