Re: [abcusers] explicit !break!
Tom Keays wrote: > No really. Look at all the Irish tunes on the web that are set in phrases > of four or eight bars so that you can see the patterns in the tunes. Well in the case of my transcriptions this is not important to me. Most of them happen to have 4 bars per line in the abc, but that's not meant to be preserved in print. If people want them printed with 4 bars per line, fine for me, but I wouldn't print them like that for myself. I would like as compact printing as possible, which would mean about 6 bars per line. Henrik Norbeck, Stockholm, Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norbeck.nu/ My home page http://www.norbeck.nu/abcmus/ AbcMus player program http://www.norbeck.nu/abc/ >1900 ABC tunes http://www.norbeck.nu/blackthorn Irish trad music band http://www.rfod.se/folklink/ Links to Swedish trad music To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] explicit !break!
On Sunday 06 July 2003 8:33 pm, I. Oppenheim wrote: > > a) There's a lot of ABC already in existence that > > depends on that assumption. > > As I said already, I seriously doubt that. Tunes for > which the linebreaks are important for some reason or > another, should make them explicit. As Tom says, almost all traditional dance music is best laid in lines of four or possibly eight bars; a large proportion of the ABC corpus in this category is laid out already, and it shouldn't be broken, though I agree some other system might be theoretically better. I won't even mention us pipers... Cheers, Calum To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] explicit !break!
on 7/6/03 3:33 PM, I. Oppenheim wrote: >> a) There's a lot of ABC already in existence that >> depends on that assumption. > As I said already, I seriously doubt that. Tunes for > which the linebreaks are important for some reason or > another, should make them explicit. No really. Look at all the Irish tunes on the web that are set in phrases of four or eight bars so that you can see the patterns in the tunes. Classical musicians don't (necessarily) do this since they are sight-reading the music, but folk musicians who use the written music to memorize it, most certainly DO. Newline must be preserved in the standard. Use some other parameter, if you have to, to determine whether the abc parser will adhere to it or ignore it. Use the explicit !break! or !nobreak! designators as you see fit. OK. I'm done with this thread. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
