John Walsh wrote:
...
Incidentally, for abc historians: if you have a copy of a Basic
manual collecting dust on your shelves, check out the PLAY command.
Hmmm...
I think I can kinda guess what you're hinting at, but so many years have
past!
So, for those of us who happens to have such
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Frank Nordberg wrote:
So, for those of us who happens to have such antiqus safely stored in
our parents' house five hundred miles from present location: You don't
happen to have a web reference, do you?
For those curious, here follows the documentation from
the Microsoft
Excellent! abc2mtex was in clear breach of the standard set by QBasic (and I
bet that wasn't the first).
Bryan Creer
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On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:31:54PM +, John Chambers wrote:
Richard Robinson writes:
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| I've been forced to use this for %%Copyright, which is a thing that's
| important to keep track of, which ordinary ABC can't handle.
This is also done routinely by a lot of people by putting
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Anyway, here's an example:
T:title
W:music by ...
W:words by ...
N:sources, discography, books, history, transcription notes, etc.
% From http://...
L:1/8 M:2/4
We have had occasional suggestions that abc allow spelling out the
names of header lines, using Title: and Composer: for example. This
would mean some small tweaks to abc parsers, but it obvious wouldn't
be a really big deal.
Ho Ho! Perhaps not in C, where a pointer to a char is the
I think I'd better rethink my proposal, since (as expected) it's been
soundly rejected by several folk-tune collectors whose support is needed.
I have ideas for a better format (IMHO) for transcribing tunes; besides
correcting some mistakes in ABC and borrowing a few things from NMD, it
would
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 03:02:28PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote:
But I think we're going to have to deal with this at some point.
We _are_ running out of characters, there are ambiguities which could be
clarified by using a whole word, it would make the whole thing rather
more accessible to
Richard Robinson writes:
| On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:31:54PM +, John Chambers wrote:
| Richard Robinson writes:
| | I've been forced to use this for %%Copyright, which is a thing that's
| | important to keep track of, which ordinary ABC can't handle.
|
| There is a minor problem with the
John Chambers wrote in part:
©: 1998 Joe Smith ...
But some people might have problems figuring out how to type this. On
many linux and *BSD systems, you can get the copyright symbol with
the ALT-) (or ALT-SHIFT-0) combination, but I don't think this will
work on Windoze or Mac systems.
In
The whole origin/area/source issue must have been beaten to death many
times before I got here... you can't really say where a 300-year old tune
originated. And then some people would sink so low as to pass it off as
their own work, if it's obscure enough. Or write what they believe to be
an
Tom Novelli writes:
| I think I'd better rethink my proposal, since (as expected) it's been
| soundly rejected by several folk-tune collectors whose support is needed.
| I have ideas for a better format (IMHO) for transcribing tunes; besides
| correcting some mistakes in ABC and borrowing a few
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Anyway, here's an example:
T:title
W:music by ...
W:words by ...
N:sources, discography,
John McChesney-Young writes:
| John Chambers wrote in part:
|
| ©: 1998 Joe Smith ...
|
| But some people might have problems figuring out how to type this. On
| many linux and *BSD systems, you can get the copyright symbol with
| the ALT-) (or ALT-SHIFT-0) combination, but I don't think this
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 03:53:17PM +, John Chambers wrote:
Richard Robinson writes:
|
| | I've been forced to use this for %%Copyright, which is a thing that's
| | important to keep track of, which ordinary ABC can't handle.
I've long thought that we really should have a well-defined
Phil Taylors wrote -
Bryan Creer wrote:
Phil Taylors extensions to the V: command were largely
incompatible with
the original and you speak of different syntaxes for BarFly and abc2mps
extensions.
If precedence is at all important, BarFly handled multivoice abc before
abcm2ps started. I think
these are all arguments for full-word labels.
%% looks kludgy to me.
N: is cryptic
I just don't understand why this is an issue.
jw
On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 01:41 pm, John Chambers wrote:
John McChesney-Young writes:
| John Chambers wrote in part:
|
| ©: 1998 Joe Smith ...
|
| But some
Jeff Szuhay wrote:
these are all arguments for full-word labels.
%% looks kludgy to me.
Agreed. It does have the advantage of being automatically ignored
by programs which don't understand it though. I've always thought
of it as mainly suitable for completely program-specific features
which
John Chambers wrote:
©: 1998 Joe Smith ...
But some people might have problems figuring out how to type this. On
many linux and *BSD systems, you can get the copyright symbol with
the ALT-) (or ALT-SHIFT-0) combination, but I don't think this will
work on Windoze or Mac systems.
Why
[copyright sign]
We could pick one of the unused single-letter headers, if we don't
want to make the jump to full-word headers. Of course, the best would
be just:
: 1998 Joe Smith ...
which via your mail client and mine emerged as a colon here.
But some people might have problems
Particularly, I'm getting unhappy about Jack's (??I think) mention
of A: as Author (of words). Or, more particularly, I use A: heavily as
Area, and am not comfortable, about 1) conflicting with other meanings
(it's not the first time A: == Author has been mentioned) and 2) the
issues that
I'd also suggest that we strongly encourage a URL or email address
[...] so that people can easily find the owner and ask for permission
to use the music.
we should note that any email addresses they contain may be a spam
risk, while (if) encouraging people to use them. URLs much better;
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:24:20AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote:
Particularly, I'm getting unhappy about Jack's (??I think) mention
of A: as Author (of words). Or, more particularly, I use A: heavily as
Area, and am not comfortable, about 1) conflicting with other meanings
(it's not the
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:24:35AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote:
I'd also suggest that we strongly encourage a URL or email address
[...] so that people can easily find the owner and ask for permission
to use the music.
we should note that any email addresses they contain may be a spam
risk,
Frank Nordberg writes:
| John Chambers wrote:
|
| ©: 1998 Joe Smith ...
|
| But some people might have problems figuring out how to type this. On
| many linux and *BSD systems, you can get the copyright symbol with
| the ALT-) (or ALT-SHIFT-0) combination, but I don't think this will
|
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