[abcusers] Re: chords with bass notes

2001-03-19 Thread Robert Bley-Vroman
I'm happy about the chord-plus-bass note notation (e.g. "G/c"). I'm a contra dance pianist of the primitive vamping/comping ilk, and we do a lot of playing chords in the right hand against simple bass runs in the left, in the simplest case, just connecting the tonics of chords. However, I think

Re: [abcusers] Guitar TAB and ABC

2001-03-19 Thread Graham Paton
> Is there in existence, or is anyone working on, an extension to ABC for > Guitar Tab? Many thanks to everyone who pointed me in the right direction and especially to Frank and Dave for wiseing me up about maillists. Graham Paton (Windows) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http:

[abcusers] Re: Bagpipe tunes

2001-03-19 Thread bob
At 01:57 PM 18-03-01 -0600, Richard L Walker wrote: >Tunes for bagpipes, as tunes for dulcimers, have restricted scales compared >to the 12 note scale I'm used to. Is there a easy way (read, use a program >to do it) to convert tunes created for 12 note scales for use with bagpipes, >dulcimers, et

[abcusers] New version of Skink available

2001-03-19 Thread Wil Macaulay
Skink is now available as a link from http://www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/abc4mac.html Skink version 0.7, 19 March 2001 Wil Macaulay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skink is a java application which supports the abc 1.6 standard. It can open, edit, save, and display abc files. My goal is to have a light

Re: [abcusers] mixing fonts in lyrics

2001-03-19 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Christophe" == Christophe Declercq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> De : Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Is there a way, in abc2ps or any relative, to have some lyrics in >> italics and others normal? I'm typesetting a piece with latin words >> mixed with English words,

Re: [abcusers] Making PDF (Was: ABC standards committee webpage)

2001-03-19 Thread Frank Nordberg
Lewis Jones wrote: ... > > However, on the question of how to produce publishable > quality sheet music via the creation of .ps and .pdf > files, you might care to read my little piece at: > > http://www.tradsong.freeserve.co.uk/Lewis1.htm > ... > > I posted my thoughts some time ago, with a

Re: [abcusers] Paging Wil McCauley

2001-03-19 Thread Wil Macaulay
Curious... I will look into it. wil Steve Mansfield wrote: > FAO Wil :- > > Where's Skink gone? > > I've went to download a newer version and the link that both I and the > abc home page have got doesn't work any more. > > Please point me in the right direction ... > > Steve Mansfield > [EMAIL

Re: [abcusers] mixing fonts in lyrics

2001-03-19 Thread Laura Conrad
> "James" == James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> You might find that yaps works better for you here. Yaps James> should change fonts instantly when it sees 'vocalfont', but James> abc2ps works by pre-loading fonts (at least, that was the James> impression I got

Re: [abcusers] mixing fonts in lyrics

2001-03-19 Thread James Allwright
You might find that yaps works better for you here. Yaps should change fonts instantly when it sees 'vocalfont', but abc2ps works by pre-loading fonts (at least, that was the impression I got from the documentation). James Allwright On Sun 18 Mar 2001 at 08:01AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: > Is