[abcusers] Announce: Initial release of abc2xml and xml2abc
Hello, I'd like to announce the initial release of freeware Win32 software that translates ABC to MusicXML and back again. MusicXML is an emerging standard for music notation that allows interoperability with different notation packages, such as Finale, SharpEye, Tabazar and others. See www.musicxml.org for more info. The software is available from http://home.austin.rr.com/johner/abc2xml A brief overview of why you might find this software useful follows. Thanks, John Lynch Reasons you might want to translate ABC into MusicXML include the following: interoperability import tunes into any program that can read MusicXML, including Finale, TaBazar, and (soon) Igor Engraver. analysis once a tune or tuneset is in MusicXML format, reports can be generated using any tool that can read XML, such as XSL transformation or generation tools like XSL can also be used to transform the music in various ways, then, if desired, xml2abc can be used to turn the XML back into ABC. This allows a wide variety of musical modifications to be encoded using any tools that manipulate XML The main reasons you might want to convert MusicXML to ABC are: file creation any tool that can output MusicXML can be used to create ABC files. For example, Finale can be used for MIDI or notation-based input; SharpEye can be used for OCR input. typesetting basic typesetting of MusicXML files can done with programs like abc2ps transformation in conjunction with abc2xml , ABC files can be converted to MusicXML, transformed with an XML tool like XSL, then converted back to ABC. This allows a wide range of operations to be performed on ABC files without ever parsing ABC. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Announce: Initial release of abc2xml and xml2abc
John Lynch wrote: I'd like to announce the initial release of freeware Win32 software that translates ABC to MusicXML and back again. MusicXML is an emerging standard for music notation that allows interoperability with different notation packages, such as Finale, SharpEye, Tabazar and others. See www.musicxml.org for more info. The software is available from http://home.austin.rr.com/johner/abc2xml Congratulations John. I've been using the previous (un-announced) version of this and I can confirm that it's a useful piece of kit. BarFly users may wish to know that the next release will import (and probably export) MusicXML. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Over the rainbow
On 25 Oct 02 3:08 pm, John Chambers wrote: Of course, as with the plain-text vs word-processor debate, ABC lacks most of the fancy music formatting of some other packages. Once upon a time, the orchestra was given the tune perhaps an indication of the bass line together with some general comment about what sort of dance that was that. ABC can already deal with this very well, and I should imagine that that is all that the majority of musicians that use it want or need. But if we can keep it that way, with just the music and a minimum of formatting stuff, then ABC will probably live for a long time, for the same reason that we'll have plain-text files around for a long time despite all the efforts of the Word Processor vendors to discourage or block its use. Just so. A good analogy. Cannot help feeling that attempts to make ABC more sophisticated would largely defeat it's greatest virtue - of being essentially a simple `pencil paper' notation method. -- RJP - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sedric.co.uk. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
