Re: [abcusers] ANN: new version of Five Line Skink

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 16:31, John Chambers wrote: > Recently I got my hands on a new BlackBerry 7280, the java-based > PDAphone. I wonder if Skink would run on it. I don't seem to see > anything saying which version of java it uses; the config stuff is > rather noncommittal. There'

Re: [abcusers] Nastiness. [Was Unicode]

2004-05-01 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 15:30, Christian M. Cepel wrote: > Anyone have a favorite IDE for Java? NetBeans is cool, but it's not > happy on a 233mhz machine with 64mb ram running win2k.I remember > someone mentioning one they liked, but don't remember where, or what it was. Yeah, I use Eclipse

Re: [abcusers] Re: chord lengths

2003-07-09 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 09:11, Bernard Hill wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes > > Where does this "bang" thing come from? "!" was always called "shriek" > >when I were a lad. > > Yes, it's a new one to me too. I always knew it as "thwack-tung" > although I've come

Re: [abcusers] Solution for ! notation?

2003-07-06 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 10:37, Phil Taylor wrote: > Eric Galluzzo wrote: > > >All programs, to my knowledge, that implement the !...! construct > >(abcm2ps, jcabc2ps, and abc2midi?) are under active development, to my > >knowledge. Therefore, all of them could easily be alt

Re: [abcusers] Stars and Bangs

2003-07-06 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 19:21, I. Oppenheim wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, John Walsh wrote: > > > My first reaction is that" ! " is better, since in !ppp! it is > > used as a delimiter, and delimiters are tall and skinny, while " * " is > > short and fat. > > This is also my fealing. I'd rather

[abcusers] Solution for ! notation?

2003-07-04 Thread Eric Galluzzo
Folks, After donning my asbestos suit, let me propose this alternative. Other people have hinted at this and perhaps even said it outright; however, this might be a concise restatement of the point and possible solution. Regarding !...! --- 1. abc2win introduced the "!" sign which,

Re: [abcusers] Voice header again

2003-01-04 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 00:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Phil, I'm not so sure I agree with that. If what you say is correct, you would >really need to go: > V:1 ... > K: Bb > V:2 > K: Bb > > And I have never seen an ABC tune that does that, and I would bet that Barfly >doesn't require that(d

Re: [abcusers] Laurie Griffiths : sad news

2002-11-29 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 18:52, James Allwright wrote: > > I have some sad news that I expect many members of this list would > like to know. Laurie Griffiths was a regular contributor to the list > and sooner or later I expect you would be wondering "Where is Laurie?" > Laurie Griffiths was killed

Re: [abcusers] Violin duet

2002-11-26 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:50, Frank Nordberg wrote: > I need some fiddler's advice for this. > > How difficult is the second fiddle of this arrangement? Childishly > simple? About average? Quite a challenge? Fiendishly? Unplayable? > > I haven't got a clue myself! Well, hopefully a not-terribly-

Re: [abcusers] RE : suggested patch for abcm2ps-2.11.3

2002-07-24 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 11:16, John Fattaruso wrote: > > There is now a version 3.1.0 available on http://moinejf.free.fr/, which I > just downloaded and built. It has my page numbering patch in it, but still > no !mp! decorations. I need !mp! for my choral music, and I can't figure > out why it di

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F > F (and F > F2) problems

2002-06-02 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 06:43, Frank Nordberg wrote: > > > Eric Galluzzo wrote: > > > > For what it's worth, abcm2ps 2.10.9 (February 10, 2002) didn't have any > > problem with it apart from the global accidentals [snip] > > I can post a PDF (23K) or

Re: [abcusers] Re: The F > F (and F > F2) problems

2002-05-30 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 16:11, Frank Nordberg wrote: > > I really wonder what the results from other abc applications are. For what it's worth, abcm2ps 2.10.9 (February 10, 2002) didn't have any problem with it apart from the global accidentals, which it gave one warning about ("Unknown token in k

Re: [abcusers] Slides

2002-04-07 Thread Eric Galluzzo
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 11:43, Jeff Bigler wrote: > I'm particularly interested in dynamics and their > associated markings (crescendo, diminuendo, etc.), and I'm not aware of > any existing abc-to-anything-else program that deals with them. (And > I'm not enough of a programmer to write my own!)

RE: [abcusers] Sharps 'n flats

2001-12-08 Thread Eric Galluzzo
They are absolute. Thus, no matter what key you are in, "_e" means E flat. - Eric > -Original Message- > From: Erik Ronström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > What the accidentals =, ^, _ mean? Are they "absolute" (e g "_e" means > "e flat") or are they in relation to the key (e g "=e"

RE: [abcusers] dynamics

2001-10-24 Thread Eric Galluzzo
Have you looked at Denemo (http://denemo.sourceforge.net)? The Web page hasn't been updated in a while but the development is very active, and there's ABC export (not import) in 0.5.6. It is not a text editor; rather, it is a graphical editor that can import/export multiple formats, rather like

RE: [abcusers] merging voices

2001-10-05 Thread Eric Galluzzo
Buddha, I can't remember your original message, I'm afraid, but abcm2ps will merge lots of voices (up to three, at least) onto a single staff, and it does so quite nicely. New releases are made quite frequently, too, which is great. I use it on Linux all the time. In order to have five voices,

[abcusers] Denemo with ABC support is out

2001-07-19 Thread Eric Galluzzo
ut rest assured that the new release is indeed available from the download link. - Eric -- Eric Galluzzo <>< Senior Developer, eInnovation, Inc. http://members.home.com/engalluzzo/ http://www.einnovation.com/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] accents and other signs

2001-07-19 Thread Eric Galluzzo
URL is in my sig (go to the "My Compositions" link). They're not that great, but they're okay, and most are original. Some glitches in some ABC tools (namely, abcm2ps and abc2midi) are also thus exposed, with "Mysterious Is the Lord" being the primary culprit in bot

Re: [abcusers] accents and other signs

2001-07-01 Thread Eric Galluzzo
, are !Ped! and the "take off the pedal" mark (sorta looks like an asterisk) in the standard? If not, perhaps they should be added. Also, I noticed that all the dynamics except for !mp! were in the standard -- probably just an oversight, but it ought to be corrected before the standard becomes official. - Eric -- Eric Galluzzo <>< Software Developer, eInnovation, Inc. http://members.home.com/engalluzzo/ http://www.einnovation.com/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] 6 against 4 (again?)

2001-04-08 Thread Eric Galluzzo
ght, too, esp. with abc2midi) have done an excellent service to the ABC community by writing their respective programs. - Eric -- Eric Galluzzo <>< Software Developer, eInnovation, Inc. http://w3.one.net/~eng/eric/ http://www.einnovation.com/ To subscribe/unsubscribe,

Re: [abcusers] ABC standards committee webpage

2001-03-16 Thread Eric Galluzzo
n that in lyrics, the backslash mark must occur at the end of the line in order for it to be a continuation character. - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//=-===-==-=-=--= <>< - "God is real, unless // Name: // Eric Galluzzo // [EMAIL PROTECTED] decl

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-06 Thread Eric Galluzzo
ile itself is where the \paper {...} and \midi {...} declarations occur, which instruct ly2dvi to create paper and MIDI. So you'd probably have to search in the .ly file and add your own \paper {} and \midi {} declarations if they weren't there (which they almost always are). - Eric

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-06 Thread Eric Galluzzo
very long time that they weren't available. On the other hand, I'm sure the copyright has expired by now - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//=-===-==-=-=--= <>< - "God is real, unless // Name: // Eric Galluzzo // [EMAIL PROTECTED] declared integer." // WWW: // http://w3.one.net

Re: [abcusers] XML ( was draft for V: retraction..... )

2001-01-05 Thread Eric Galluzzo
Laura Conrad wrote: >>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Galluzzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> > > Eric> As far as I know, no current music programs use an XML-based > Eric> format as their standard input format. However, I'm

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draft for V:)

2001-01-05 Thread Eric Galluzzo
each voice); it looks something like "\key c \minor" or "\key bes" (it uses Dutch note names, so "is" => sharp, "es" => flat, thus "bes" is "B flat"). If no "\minor" or "\major" appears, it defaults to major. H

Re: [abcusers] XML ( was draft for V: retraction..... )

2001-01-04 Thread Eric Galluzzo
s a native file format is definitely suboptimal, since Lilypond is even harder to parse than ABC and maintaining and enhancing that code for every new feature that Denemo adds is much more painful than adding a tag or two to the XML. - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//==

Re: [abcusers] draft for V: retraction.....

2001-01-04 Thread Eric Galluzzo
e ABC into some sort of XML-based file format (it doesn't really matter which one) would probably be handy. Thanks for reading this far! :) - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//=-===-==-=-=--= <>< - "God is real, u

Re: [abcusers] draft for V:

2001-01-02 Thread Eric Galluzzo
x27;s I:octave=-2 proposal (or something like that) ought to make it in, or else we'll still have endless debates about clef transposition and an ill-defined standard to boot. :) - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//=-===-==-=-=--= <>< - "God is real, unless

Re: [abcusers] V: field

2000-11-14 Thread Eric Galluzzo
just at the moment. :) - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//=-===-==-=-=--= <>< - "God is real, unless // Name: // Eric Galluzzo // [EMAIL PROTECTED] declared integer." // WWW: // http://w3.one.net/~eng/ --

Re: [abcusers] Multiple bars of rest

2000-11-14 Thread Eric Galluzzo
fined) musical instructions and hence go in !...! and not "...". I think the idea is that text in double quotes is just unparsed text, whereas text in exclamation points is an instruction to the ABC program. - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//===

Re: [abcusers] Key signature accidentals

2000-10-16 Thread Eric Galluzzo
7; or F, -- probably either issue an error or leave it natural. - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//=-===-==-=-=--= <>< - "God is real, unless // Name: // Eric Galluzzo // [EMAIL PROTECTED] declared integer." // WWW: // http://w3.one.net/~eng/ -- Unknown // Work: // Synchrony // Product Engineer ---=-=-

Re: [abcusers] ABC, AHC, Do-Re-Mi

2000-07-09 Thread Eric Galluzzo
ind diffing two files, so that bit was particularly interesting to me. So, keep going! and we all will learn something. - Eric -- ---=---=-=-==-===-=//===//=-===-==-=-=--= <>< - "God is real, unless // Name: // Eric Galluzzo // [EMAIL PR