Re: [abcusers] ABC in an internet cafe

2001-08-13 Thread Jack Campin
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 you

Re: [abcusers] ABC in an internet cafe

2001-08-13 Thread Anselm Lingnau
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 up.

[abcusers] macros

2001-08-13 Thread Jack Campin
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

Re: [abcusers] gracenote extensions

2001-08-13 Thread John Walsh
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 I

[abcusers] abcmac - BarFly-style abc macro preprocessor in Perl

2001-08-13 Thread Anselm Lingnau
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).