John Chambers wrote:
>Steve Mansfield asks:
>| Mention of the standards committee prompts the thought :
>
>Y'know, I haven't received any email from them recently. Either
>there's no current activity, or I've been dropped from the mailing
>list. Maybe I should ask. Probably no need to,
> What worries me about the use of an inline field for V: is that it is an
> invitation to people to put [V:2] in the middle of a line. After all,
> that's what inline fields are for. In this case, however, it makes no
> sense at all to change voices in mid-line.
It does, however, make sense to
D-Man wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:39:16PM +0200, Frank Nordberg wrote:
...
> | Isn't there a programming language named ABC? And shouldn't we all
> | use that?
>
> I don't know if it is still around, but it was the language that Guido
> van Rossum (Python's creator) worked on before
Jack Campin wrote:
>> What worries me about the use of an inline field for V: is that it is an
>> invitation to people to put [V:2] in the middle of a line. After all,
>> that's what inline fields are for. In this case, however, it makes no
>> sense at all to change voices in mid-line.
>
>It
> "Frank" == Frank Nordberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But in modern interpretations, music is often
>> transcribed for one lead intrument (recorder, fiddle
>> etc.) with an accompagning intrument (guitar,
>> keyboard...) and then we get a partition with two
>> staffs
> "Steve" == Steve Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> Mention of the standards committee prompts the thought :
Steve> Where's the standards committee up to?
I think the short answer is, "Not much."
A longer answer is that several people worked pretty hard a couple of
mont
Phil Taylor said -
>The tune will work with Muse and abcm2ps with a minimal
>amount of editing (just insert a return after every V:n field).
Why should users have to do that? How are they going to know that's what
they have to do? They may not be on this list. They may never have heard of
Bryan Creer wrote:
>Phil Taylor said -
>
>>The tune will work with Muse and abcm2ps with a minimal
>>amount of editing (just insert a return after every V:n field).
>
>Why should users have to do that?
Because they are dealing with a tune which uses extensions to the abc
standard that their own
Bryan Creer hath writ:
| >I can see that we're going to end up having to write "smart" software
| >which can figure out the right answer from anything which looks like abc.
|
| Or, alternatively, we can all work to the same standard and save ourselves a
| lot of trouble.
Fat chance. Even if we t
