[abcusers] developers/users

2001-01-23 Thread Jack Campin
Laura: >> The reason the guitar chord notation got co-opted for text annotations >> is that many, many users needed a text annotation of some kind. Bryan: > No. This is a reason for developing a text annotation system, not a reason > for co-opting the guitar chord notation. Couldn't they have d

Re: [abcusers] validation & the ABC corpus

2001-01-23 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, John Chambers wrote: > I could use such an option myself. Why? Well, one thing that current > abc tools aren't very good at is dealing with fragments of abc. Most > people don't want this, and probably haven't even thought of it. But > I've been working on some abc tutor

Re: [abcusers] (no subject)

2001-01-23 Thread Laurie Griffiths
Bryan said: >If you are producing software that claims to process abc then > surely you have a duty to make that as complete as possible > or you aren't Fare Trading. Fare?? Fair, I think. Well, we disagree here. As I also claim to be able to import MIDI files, I suppose I would have a duty

Re: [abcusers] validation & the ABC corpus

2001-01-23 Thread Bryancreer
John Chambers says - >Well, this [validation] would be useful, but it does have its limits. A few points here. 1) If you introduce this innovation for José it should be included in the standard and hence wouldn't be invalid so wouldn't fall foul of validation routines. 2) Just becau

[abcusers] International Folk Dance music

2001-01-23 Thread John Chambers
Anselm writes: | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, | Richard L Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > Is anyone aware of any abc collections of tunes used for | > International Folk Dancing? | | John Chambers has a fair amount of stuff on his site but you have to | piece it together for yourself.

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2001-01-23 Thread Bryancreer
Laurie Griffiths says - >Some examples >were posted to the list which were alleged to be incompatible >with each other. I imported them all (actually I think there >were only two) into Muse and they all worked fine. I >reported that and then shut up. As far as I was concerned >that wasn't "fi

Re: [abcusers] validation & the ABC corpus

2001-01-23 Thread John Chambers
Bryan writes: | Jack Campin says - | | >Existing software, or future software for that matter, is hardly going | >to remove pages from the web, is it? | | No, but can't we try and stop it getting any worse? This is where I came in | many months ago with an appeal to developers to exercise a bit o

Re: [abcusers] validation & the ABC corpus

2001-01-23 Thread John Chambers
John Henckel wrote: | At 10:06 PM 1/22/2001 +, JC wrote: | >It's part of human politics. It's similar to how, here in the | >USA, the public health people have been blocked from setting up the | >needle exchange programs by others who think that this "encourages" | >drug use. | | Here in M

Re: [abcusers] V: again

2001-01-23 Thread James Allwright
On Tue 23 Jan 2001 at 11:59AM -, Laurie Griffiths wrote: > I think I would prefer > V: SYNC > Consider: > V:1 > abc abc abc abc V:SYNC 1 dead dead dead V:SYNC 2 def def def def > V:2 > face face face V:SYNC 2 def def def def > I don't think you've understood the concept here. What you've w

Re: [abcusers] V: again

2001-01-23 Thread Laurie Griffiths
I think I would prefer V: SYNC Consider: V:1 abc abc abc abc V:SYNC 1 dead dead dead V:SYNC 2 def def def def V:2 face face face V:SYNC 2 def def def def We don't know whether voice 2 singing face was supposed to make harmony with voice 1 singing abc or dead, but we do know that they are suppose

[abcusers] V: again

2001-01-23 Thread James Allwright
I have a small suggestion regarding the V: field and global parameters. This isn't something I've implemented, just an idea I had. I'd like to know if other people think it is useful or not. The idea is that we introduce another V: directive V:SYNC which marks the point in the abc where all th

Re: [abcusers] Developers responsibilities

2001-01-23 Thread Laurie Griffiths
Wendy said "I don't agree that the V: field discussion just got dropped." Bryan said "No, it just sort of fizzled out without achieving anything." We had a discussion about this a while ago. Some examples were posted to the list which were alleged to be incompatible with each other. I imported

[abcusers] Unsubscribing from the abcusers list

2001-01-23 Thread Tim
I have tried a few times through the page at Tulluchgorm.com to unsubscribe from this list, but so far unsuccessfully. My ISP uses a system that allows you to add a small extra piece to your email address that allows you to trace any misuse of that address. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], b

Re: [abcusers] Developers responsibilities

2001-01-23 Thread Laurie Griffiths
Anarchy is exactly it. Note: that does not mean "no rules"; it means "no rulers". And that is de facto what we have. Short of a blood bath where a hit man really does appear at my door, nobody can tell me what to implement or how to do it. And of course nor can I tell Phil or John or anybody

Re: [abcusers] validation & the ABC corpus

2001-01-23 Thread Anselm Lingnau
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard L Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone aware of any abc collections of tunes used for > International Folk Dancing? John Chambers has a fair amount of stuff on his site but you have to piece it together for yourself. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ...

Re: [abcusers] Developers responsibilities

2001-01-23 Thread Steve Mansfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : >> On the other hand Muse will not attempt to play "^D.C." as a chord. >>This (if I remember the syntax properly) is an annotation to go above the >>staff, was discussed here and is I think agreed on. Sort of "almost >>standard". > >Are these things documented anywhere t