Re: [abcusers] smaller notes among others

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Robinson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 03:08:05AM +, John Chambers wrote: Kristian Nørgaard asked: | Is it possible to write a part of the melody with smaller notes than | then rest. | This is often used when you want to show a short melodyline, which isn't | part of the main melodi. | | It should

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 spec questions/suggestions - voice overlay

2004-03-15 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:29:05 -0700 (MST), Tom Satter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Hello Tom, [snip] I saw one post in the last 9 months suggesting a way to make this work, but it was not really discussed at length. I would like to propose that we introduce three new

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 spec questions/suggestions - line continuations

2004-03-15 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:02:21 -0700 (MST), Tom Satter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Doing either one of these would give a way for people that like to embed key changes, etc on new lines to do it: I:implicit_line_breaks = no K:D [V:S] ccAb ccA2|fdab [V:A] ccAb ccA2|fdab K:G [V:S]

[abcusers] multicol alignment (margin units) in abcm2ps

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Robinson
I've been typing some things up that require a bit of annotating; alternate versions of particular bars, for example. The neatest way I've found is to use %%multicol to drop a new (partial) staff underneath, showing just the bar in question (%%scaled down). To be comprehensible, this bar must line

RE: [abcusers] Making a book, how?

2004-03-15 Thread Atwood, Robert C
Once the project reaches a certain level of complexety, it may be worth learning to use MusiXTeX directly , combined with LaTeX and its relatives. http://icking-music-archive.org/; abc2mtex allowed (still allows) a shorthand way of writing traditional folk session tunes and printing them out but

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 spec questions/suggestions - line continuations

2004-03-15 Thread Tom Satter
Interesting, I still like the idea of being able to make line breaks not be manditory on the newline. However, maybe there should be a way to say that something applies to all voices (say V:* for starters)? Then you could write: I:implicit_line_breaks = no K:D [V:S] ccAb ccA2|fdab [V:A] ccAb

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 spec questions/suggestions - voice overlay

2004-03-15 Thread Tom Satter
Jean-Francois Moine said: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:29:05 -0700 (MST), Tom Satter wrote: [snip] ( - start a voice overlay - reset time back to previous start point ) - end a voice overlay abcm2ps has '(..)', but there is a parsing problem on the closing parenthesis. Now, in the

Re: [abcusers] Making a book, how?

2004-03-15 Thread Ewan A. Macpherson
On 12 Mar 2004 at 15:09, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 14:43, Ewan A. Macpherson wrote: On 12 Mar 2004 at 14:26, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: Can anyone give me some suggestions as to how I would create a nice book. I want to be able to give a copy or two away to other people who

Re: [abcusers] Making a book, how?

2004-03-15 Thread Jeremy Cowgar
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 10:05, Ewan A. Macpherson wrote: I've snipped this down to two pages'-worth and an exemplary table of contents ... snip cheers, Ewan, That worked great, thank you for sharing. I will start working toward this to make my simple book. Jeremy To

Re: [abcusers] smaller notes among others

2004-03-15 Thread Randall J Elzinga
Kristian Nørgaard asked: | Is it possible to write a part of the melody with smaller notes than | then rest. | This is often used when you want to show a short melodyline, which isn't | part of the main melodi. | | It should show up in the same staff as the rest. John Chambers responded: snip

Re: [abcusers] Re: ABC 1.x continuations (was ABC 2.0 draft)

2004-03-15 Thread Steven Bennett
So... If it can only occur on tune and lyric lines, and it can only occur where a staff break or lyric line break would be valid, then that is why I suggested a definition along the lines of: A backslash (\) at the end of a line means do not break the staff or lyric line at this point if

Re: [abcusers] Re: ABC 1.x continuations (was ABC 2.0 draft)

2004-03-15 Thread Tom Satter
I like this way of doing it. I think that it is clearer than what I was proposing a couple days ago. This would mean that the backslash at the end of a line does not have the semantics currently written in the 2.0 spec, but it is more backward compatible with 1.x, it is defined well enough to

Re: [abcusers] Re: ABC 1.x continuations (was ABC 2.0 draft)

2004-03-15 Thread Steven Bennett
Except I'm only proposing this as an aid in defining how to parse 1.* style completions (when the user has selected that as a parsing flag...), not as a change to the 2.0 spec. I actually prefer the 2.0 continuation mechanism, although I'm not strongly attached to it and could see how the 1.*