All right, everybody, please forget the simple-minded piece of junk I
posted recently, which suffered from the delusion of being a BarFly
macro preprocessor. As far as I am concerned here comes the Real Thing,
based on Phil Taylor's description of BarFly macros (I hope it does
everything right). T
Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here's an example; the chords could hardly be simpler (play the lower
> octave along with the named note), but even here there's less to type
> and read than writing them out explicitly.
I've appended a little Perl program which will, from Jack's input,
Jack Campin writes:
> a useful function when notating music for stopped bagpipes, like
> uillean or Northumbrian pipes; with these you have a choice of whether
> to play legato or introduce a momentary silence by putting all your
> fingers down. In practice people use slurs for this, but if
Anselm Lingnau wrote:
>If someone (Phil?) sends me a detailed description of what BarFly macros
>do and how they are defined in BarFly abc files I'd be happy to give it
>a try on the next rainy afternoon. (Right now it is sunny outside and
>going on 30°C.) As of now I'm not really desperate but i
> If I understand BarFly macros correctly, they're simply bits of text that
> get replaced by other bits of text. If we're suitably desperate, writing
> a simple preprocessor to do that shouldn't take more than a Perl
> interpreter and a rainy afternoon, and it will basically macro-enable
> all Un
Anselm Lingnau writes:
| John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > There's no way to ask a
| > web server for a portion of a file; you just have to read through it
| > from the beginning.
|
| As a matter of fact you can ask a web server for a portion of a file,
| according to rec
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>| What should happen in the second case is that when that tune appears
>| in a list of hits, the buttons which retrieve GIF, ps or midi would
>| be disabled, and the abc button would retrieve the whole file.
>| (I've no idea how easy that would be to implement - presumably the
>| index would need
Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One piece of file-context-dependence that I am likely to introduce on my
> site fairly soon is BarFly macros. [...] but there seems to be no
> interest as yet from the Unix camp. I'd rather get the ABC right first
> and wait for the programmers to catch
John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There's no way to ask a
> web server for a portion of a file; you just have to read through it
> from the beginning.
As a matter of fact you can ask a web server for a portion of a file,
according to recent versions of HTTP (see RFC 2616, search for
>> I'm getting quite tempted by the idea of putting all the ABC on my
>> site into archive files so as to counter search engine abuse.
> If you have access to the root level directory on your site you can put
> up a Robots.txt file to tell webspiders not to index part or all of your
> site. If yo
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