John Henckel wrote:
In abcm2ps there is a bug. If an accidental is used several times in the
same measure, it draws all of them. Thus, K:F and " =B =B " will print two
notes with naturals in front of them, but only the FIRST one should have a
natural sign. I am going to fix jhabc2ps so that
Eric Galluzzo writes:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| ... The !...! notation might be better here, since
| that seems to be what people like for official musical directives
| such as !crescendo! and !da Capo! and so on. These are all special
| cases. in this case, !23!z could be
Henning Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrivit:
| On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| | "^20"z8 | or | !17!z8 |
|
| But a midiplayer would of course not wait 17 bars...
Well, if it were combining multiple voices, I'd hope it would. But
when playing just the one part, it could be
Laura writes:
| "John" == jc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| John I've been registered as a developer since May. ...
| John ... I still haven't stumbled across the info
| John on how to put things into cvs. ...
|
| First, let me suggest that people who want to be
John Walsh writes:
| While I'm at it, I think it may also be useful to have invisible
| bar lines. These could be used in difficult cases to aid the alignment
| of notes between staves carrying different voices, or having different
| meters (in polyrhythmic music) or when there
| gets() is only used in one place (in the original abc2ps code, at that).
| Where it is used is in the interactive function and it is used to get user
| input to select tunes. The buffer is 500+ characters, and it's *highly*
| unlikely that the user is going to enter more
John Atchley writes:
| Also, I'll be moving the distribution files to source forge once I figure out how to
| get sourceforge to let me do so.
Hmmm ... So I'm not the only one with this problem. When you figure
it out, how about you pass on the word (or a URL for the
Frank Nordberg wrote:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Formatting isn't important, and if we lose it, we don't lose much.
| The important thing is the information content.
|
| Yes, but in music notation it's usually impossible to draw a clear line
| between information content
Phil Taylor suggested:
| Jack Campin wrote:
| BarFly is AppleScriptable, isn't it? So, if you've got a Mac on
| your network somewhere, you should be able to tell it to:
|
| - open the file
| - go into split-screen mode
| - do Print Preview
| - save as PICT
|
...
| The other
| Jack Campin wrote:
| many people who use JC's Tune Finder will just want the gif or midi
| as they wouldn't know what to do with the abc. For such a user, an
| automatic fixer would be an improvement even if it only worked for
| some of the tunes.
| Perhaps the best of all
Phil Taylor asks:
| I have a plea from a BarFly user who is transcribing Polish hymns, and
| he needs a way to place two words on one note. Now he can do it using
| the Mac's non-breaking space (option-space), but would prefer a more
| portable method, since that character is not
| As a matter of interest, which packages are happy with the V: commands?
| Just the other day someone was pointing out that they are not in the
| standard.
| To start the ball rolling, Muse found no problem with them.
Well, abc2ps has had them for some time now. But I think there
| What sort of a scale would use ^G_A^B?
|
| _E^F_B or _E^F_B^C definitely make sense (tonic is D).
Yup; I use both of those. However, the first corresponds to two
different scales that are common in the Balkans, with tonics C and D.
The second I only know with a tonic of D,
John Henckel remarked:
| I don't think the abc standard should allow K:^g _a ^b
I.e., you don't think ABC should be used to transcribe music that
uses scales other than the classical western-European modes. Or, if
people insist on doing such a thing, they should be forced to
John Walsh wrote:
| Frank Nordberg wrote:
| A problem with the O'Neill tunes is that many of them doesn't
| seem to have a clearly defined tonal centre at all.
|
| Ah, that's interesting. I think it's one of the great interests
| of the tunes, rather than a problem, but of
James Allwright writes:
| On Mon 02 Oct 2000 at 01:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| It did come up with somewhat fewer total tunes than before, though
| the number isn't very different. The main loss seems to be that
| perun.hscs.wmin.ac.uk has gone away, and its
| Frank Nordberg wrote:
| In case somebody wonder why I've been so quiet recently:
|
| I've just finished the first half of my own private O'Neill project.
| The first 500 tunes from Francis O'Neill: "The Dance Music of
| Ireland" (known as "O'Neill's 1001") is now available
tune
finder (http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/findtune.html) and see
if any of your tunes are missing.
The reason for this is something that I'd sorta been wondering about
since I started hearing, a few months ago, about a new breed of web
search program. The problem was all the "h
in the file is free advertising.
It is that, but it's also attribution that I like to see in all my
ABC files.
I'd bet that the composers of jazz tunes will mostly respond the same
way. Be prepared to send them a brief intro to ABC. I have a couple
at:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc
S=F8ren writes:
|
| I have about 450 Musicator-files (.mct) with scandinavian folktunes which=
| I
| would like to convert to abc-format for web-distribution. They are
| currently distributed as GIF-files (check:
| http://www.folketshus.dk/folketshus/spillefolk/noder.html) which
Derek Lane-Smith wrote:
| It seems to me that abc is an ideal format for building a library of New
| Orleans Jazz standards. Does anyone know of such a database? Or of one in
| some other format that is accessible, and that can be converted to abc?
Y'know, I've gotten a number of
| There are several ABC programs that do support multiple voices - I though=
| t
| that there was a list of these somewhere but I can't find it. maybe I've
| missed it. John Chambers' FAQ (
| http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/ABC-FAQ.html ) includes a number of
| lists
| Muse has handled V: for long enough that I've forgotten how long
| ago I did it.
Memory getting weak in old age, eh?
Anyhow, this reminds me of something that I started some time back
and haven't collected much data for:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/doc
Eric Mrozek writes:
| I'm using abc2ps/Ghostscript to print bagpipe music and would
| appreciate information on how to remove the curved tie
| between the grace-notes and the melody notes. Jackson.
|
| The last I knew there was no command line option to turn off
| ties on
Frank Nordberg writes:
|
| ABCTwin is a program for automatically creating two and three part
| harmonisations of ABC files. It can be downloaded (just 48 KB) at:
| http://www.logeny.com/abctwin.htm
Thanks, Frank. I fed that URL to my tune finder, and there are now
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