Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Aaron Newman wrote: > I read in the FAQ that there is no way now to do dynamics in the official > ABC language. How are people handling this? the FAQ should be updated. In actual fact, many ABC applications support dynamics; abcm2ps, jaabc2ps, abc2midi, to name but a few. P

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread James Allwright
On Sat 20 Oct 2001 at 05:41AM -0700, Aaron Newman wrote: > I read in the FAQ that there is no way now to do dynamics in the official > ABC language. How are people handling this? abc2midi uses !p! !pp! !f! !fff! and so on. > I am working on a (yet another) free ABC music editing and display pr

Re: [abcusers] Suggestions to the ABC Standard

2001-10-22 Thread James Allwright
There isn't a formal mechanism for doing this, I suggest you just post your suggestions to abcusers. Be warned that getting new features put into the standard doesn't mean that they will automatically be added to all abc programs; usually the developers have to thrash out the exact details of new

[abcusers] new abcMIDI RPMs available + other stuff

2001-10-22 Thread Guido Gonzato
Hello, you can grab the abcMIDI RPMs and updates to JedABC + abcpp from the AbcPlus page, http://abcplus.sourceforge.net Later, Guido =8-) -- Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. - Linux system manager Universita' di Verona (Italy), Dipartimento Scientifico e Tecnologico Ca' Vignal II, Strada Le Graz

[abcusers] abc2midi filenames

2001-10-22 Thread James Allwright
Announcing the arrival of a new feature: I have just added an option to abc2midi which generates filenames from tune titles. By default these are limited to 8 characters for the benefit of simple filesystems, but there is another option which lets you change this limit. abc2midi can be found at

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Taral
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:57:35AM +0200, Guido Gonzato wrote: > the FAQ should be updated. In actual fact, many ABC applications support > dynamics; abcm2ps, jaabc2ps, abc2midi, to name but a few. Please check out > the ABC draft, http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/abc-draft.txt I'll take this

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Taral wrote: > I'll take this time to announce that I am working on a "libabc" that > eventually will handle abc file parsing so that development of new abc > applications is easier. If this can find its way into general acceptance, it would be a Good Thing. ... > I'd also

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Taral
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:56:15PM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: > > |F2A2Bc&F2c2bc| > > Is this the same syntax that abc2mtex used to use ? And, is there much abc > out there that uses it ? I used to have a few, I _think_ I've migrated > them all to use the newer and easier "V:" - being 2-p

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Richard" == Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Taral wrote: >> I'll take this time to announce that I am working on a "libabc" that >> eventually will handle abc file parsing so that development of new abc >> applications is easier.

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Taral
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 06:14:17PM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote: > I agree, but what I want to hear is not so much about new features but > a willingness to consider non-standard behavior as a bug (except for > documented extensions), and a willingness to fix bugs even if they > only affect other peo

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Taral wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:56:15PM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: > > > |F2A2Bc&F2c2bc| > > > > Is this the same syntax that abc2mtex used to use ? And, is there much abc > > out there that uses it ? I used to have a few, I _think_ I've migrated > > them a

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Richard Robinson
On 22 Oct 2001, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "Richard" == Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard> On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Taral wrote: > >> I'll take this time to announce that I am working on a "libabc" that > >> eventually will handle abc file parsing so that development

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Taral
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:56:27PM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: > It used a syntax with a '&' to separate 2 voices, before the V: was > suggested. Looked pretty much like what you're saying, but involved > something extra in the K: line, iirc, which no-one else really adopted. From what I saw,

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Taral
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:30:30AM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: > Which, doesn't your abc2ps produce dotted notes ? > > Odd thing, though. My "(a.b.c.d.)" above ought, surely, to produce > staccato notes with a slur over them ? In fact, the first note doesn't > appear to have the dot. And (AB.

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Buddha Buck
Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd also like to announce that I will be making the following amendments > to the standard in libabc: > > > If anyone thinks that these should be something else, please tell me! I'd like to suggest something else. Right now, my primary interest is notati

Re: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-22 Thread Taral
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 11:43:11PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > Right now, I have to do something like "w: left_ approach_ right_ > together" for lines 1&2, and "w: left__ approach__ right__ together_" for > lines 3&4. > > If there were a varient w: tag keyed to beats, it would help. How about a