[abcusers] Chinese tunes

2002-12-07 Thread John Chambers
In some other fora, there has been much discussion lately of the Great Firewall of China, which is blocking Chinese access to all sorts of things on the Net. Among them are most of the search sites, especially google.com, and all of mit.edu. The folks at MIT are somewhat bemused by this,

[abcusers] Re: repeats and bar numbers

2002-12-07 Thread DavBarnert
JC wrote: Orchestral scores typically don't have bar numbers at all, just huge boxed letters at critical points. People then say things like Go to four bars before E. That's not really true. I've been playing the Cello for 40 years and have been in many orchestras. While the boxed letters

Re: [abcusers] Re: repeats and bar numbers

2002-12-07 Thread joe mc cool
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |:abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|[1abc:|[2def||gab|... Which is what I would like to achieve. I have tried inserting %%setbarnb in various places, but it maketh not a button of difference. As it stands my abcm2ps will

Re: [abcusers] Re: repeats and bar numbers

2002-12-07 Thread Phil Taylor
Joe Mc Cool wrote: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |:abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|abc|[1abc:|[2def||gab|... BTW, is it normal for the : to follow the 1st repeat rather than the 2nd as here ? Yes. That way the :| marker really means go back from this point. The second repeat should end

Re: [abcusers] Chinese tunes

2002-12-07 Thread Jack Campin
In some other fora, there has been much discussion lately of the Great Firewall of China, which is blocking Chinese access to all sorts of things on the Net. Among them are most of the search sites, especially google.com, and all of mit.edu. The folks at MIT are somewhat bemused by

Re: [abcusers] Re: repeats and bar numbers

2002-12-07 Thread ANewman110
huge boxed letters at critical points. People then say things like "Go to four bars before "E". It is because I have wasted so much rehearsal time with that that I made iabc put little numbers at the beginning of each line. BTW (self-promotion) I was the Piano Puzzle guy on National Public