On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, John Chambers wrote:
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
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bruce Olson wrote:
I don't think that is quite right. My recollection is that
39.37 inches was one meter until some time in the 1970s.
I was one of many scientists at the US National Bureau of
Standards who was appalled, to say the least, when the US
government decided
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
say these are the standard fields, for
everything else there are comments!
Tom Novelli
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Richard Robinson wrote:
I don't think we really are running out of field letters yet, since
most of the lower case letters are still available.
We could certainly get by for a while
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Jack Campin wrote:
I've been working on an Abc 2.0 proposal, which is a stripped-down
version of 1.6. Amongst other things, I removed most of the headers
(notably A-G, X and Z, to avoid confusion with notes and rests).
In my view of things, removing the C:Composer
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Richard Robinson wrote:
But, as has been said before, ABC is used for a lot more than just
rendering sheet music. One advantage it has, to me, over just about
everything else I've looked at is the way it offers a usable way of storing
_lots_ of tunes, rather than just
version
of 1.6. Amongst other things, I removed most of the headers (notably
A-G, X and Z, to avoid confusion with notes and rests). I admit
it's a little radical :) http://bespin.org/~tom/abc2-tcn.txt
Tom Novelli
P.S. I'm working on an Abc viewer for Linux/svgalib.. it could be adapted
to Windows
