Re: [abcusers] Make only lyrics and chords from abc?

2004-12-12 Thread Ulf Bro
o far as I can see they do not read an abc-file that has chords, melody line and lyrics in it. It reads a file consisting of lyrics with chords over it. That is, however, the file I wanted to make. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Make only lyrics and chords from abc?

2004-12-12 Thread Ulf Bro
b C Working like a dog Or some other format that a band can use when some of them say they don't necessarily need the notes (the bass player for example). Do you see the possibility of adding such a feature, or something like it to already existing software and have the result

Re: [abcusers] How to transpose abc to abc?

2004-08-04 Thread Ulf Bro
make sure every abc file ends with at least one newline to avoid problems with abc2abc. If you want to see these sed scripts, I will be happy to give them to you too. Hope this gives you some inspiration... Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Exchange of songs

2004-08-01 Thread Ulf Bro
transcribed what. One could then email the person in question and ask for a copy. The way things are at the moment there is no way to exchange jazz standards or rock songs or any contemporary pop music. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Copyright indication / version indication

2004-08-01 Thread Ulf Bro
second title like this: X:1 %%continueall 1 %%maxshrink 0.5 T:Can You Feel The Love Tonight T:Bb Instrument. 02.08.2004 M:... I don't print any copyright notations anywhere, but I sure have considered placing a notice like "Illegal copy hacked by ABC-Hacker, Germany. Enjoy". I think

Re: [abcusers] Copyright Issues ... Socks and America Bashing

2004-07-24 Thread Ulf Bro
I am willing to communicate with anyone in the world who strives to develop the abc system or to promote its use. This mailing list is certainly not the environment to state my opinion about your country. I have done that often enough at other, more suitable, places. Ulf To su

Re: [abcusers] Variant rhythmic notation

2004-06-07 Thread Ulf Bro
a line, write it down, play it once more and compare what I hear to what I have written (without converting the written to sheet music), I'd say that making any such changes would force me to learn a new system although the old one works perfectly well. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point you

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps questions

2003-12-20 Thread Ulf Bro
d where they don't use A4, and that is USA. They also still have these funny old "pounds" and "feet" and things like that. Like living in a museum, right? Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] abmc2ps problems

2003-10-19 Thread Ulf Bro
Hello, Since my update to abcm2ps-3.7.11 I seem to have problems printing multistave music. Also, any measure starting with a chord and having a grace note following the chord seems to be printed such that the chord is missing. Are these known bugs? Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your

Re: [abcusers] The abc standard

2003-07-01 Thread Ulf Bro
> It is a very good idea to add an ABC version field to > the header, to distinguish old ABC from new ABC. Jawohl !!! Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] ABC 1.7 standard?

2003-07-01 Thread Ulf Bro
e care of all this, which he does in his free time without getting paid for it, I would like to see an Estonian professor or something like it, founding a "Department of ABC"... Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Vim, abc mode

2003-03-18 Thread ulf
linux:/usr/share/vim/vim61/syntax # patch -i /home/ulf/vim/abcSymbol.patch abc.vim patching file abc.vim Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] Apply anyway? [n] Skipping patch. 3 out of 3 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file abc.vim.rej Then I thought, I might ans

Re: [abcusers] Vim, abc mode

2003-03-16 Thread ulf
> For your viewing pleasure, a simple patch that highlights !symbols! in > the same way as guitar chords... Hey, that's nice! I am still learning the most basic features of Vim. (But I AM learning every day...) What must I do with this patch to make it work? Ulf To subscribe/unsubsc

Re: [abcusers] source and copyright

2003-03-16 Thread ulf
ingsbums Verlag Berlin 1984 C: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart D: James Last - Berlin-Konzert 1987, Polydor 833 683-2 H: This piece was composed in the Year , first time played in , then I: This abc file holds a version for Piano Z: Transcription into ABC format for the abcm2ps program by Ulf Bro

Re: [abcusers] Guitar chords on a line by themselves

2003-03-15 Thread ulf
bc community something back in return to everything I have been able to enjoy over the years. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Bb and Eb instruments (Linux)

2003-03-14 Thread ulf
of sheet music has a subtitle stating for which instrument the music was written. If anyone can use these scripts for anything I am happy to share them with you. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Guitar chords on a line by themselves

2003-03-14 Thread ulf
and make it executable with the command > chmod +x changeitall.sh and then execute it. I have just used it on Henrik Norbecks hnr3.abc, hnr4.abc and hnr5.abc, it completed the work in few milliseconds. If there are any other similar changes you want to do, please feel free to ask me and I

[abcusers] Vim, abc mode

2003-03-14 Thread ulf
abcplus for example - then one should expect that there would also be someone who maintains the abc mode for Vim. Who actually does that? Who wrote that mode in the first place? Who knows anything about this particular matter? Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: OT: [abcusers] Announce: new ABC manual

2002-06-27 Thread Ulf
> You never cease to amaze me, Ulf! Exactly *how* many languages do you > speak fluently? I know of four by now :-) I don't speak Italian. But I do understand that manual with only an occasional glance in the dictionnary. You will too, I'm sure, because it is really well writt

Re: [abcusers] Announce: new ABC manual

2002-06-27 Thread Ulf
e a most skilful teacher. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] resons for using abc

2002-06-04 Thread Ulf
certainly not bother filling it with lyrics and chords etc. My conclusion: abc is good for people who (1) are very experienced in the use of a computer, (2) who can do the necessary intellectual abstractions in their mind and type in the tune at the same time (3) who use sheet musi

Re: [abcusers] Transpose and GUI development

2002-05-14 Thread Ulf
bably send it to Atte to put on his new jazz songbook homepage. I think Atte's initiative is very good and should be supported at least until the bad guys come and get him... Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] Transpose and GUI development

2002-05-06 Thread Ulf
e, but that doesn't keep me from making another one. It is written in Tcl/Tk and demands of you that you have Tcl/Tk installed on your machine. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] jcabc2ps

2002-05-05 Thread Ulf
gt; much work left to do. This gives you lots of time to type up the > tunes and put them in your web site. One thing I will certainly agree about is - there is an impressive number of ways of doing things... I hope to become a long time Linux user when I get older... :-) Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] The Girl From Ipanema

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 23:25 schrieb Atte Andre Jensen: > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Ulf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm so proud of this one, I simply have to give it away, believe me: it > > was not easy to make... > > Hey, great! I did find room for improve

[abcusers] The Girl From Ipanema

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
Hi, I'm so proud of this one, I simply have to give it away, believe me: it was not easy to make... I have been looking for sheet music with the Portuguese lyrics to it but never found one. The particular rhythmics of this version has a particularly sexy note to it. Ulf X: 1 T: The

Re: [abcusers] Tunes with chords

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
; -3 chords are no problem. At the moment, continued lines are a problem, > and the routine strips the continuation chars out and handles it one text > line at a time. Please excuse me for this simple musical question, but what exactly is a -3 chord? If it means a minor third isn't it the

Re: abc's biggest problem (was: [abcusers] !fine! exclamation-point abuse)

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
| "A Am"C4 | Not me, I write | "C" A- "Cdim" A- "Dm7" A- "G9" A- | "C6" A2 z2 | Which is, by the way, also ugly... Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] jcabc2ps

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
ite sure of what features exactly exist, but I am willing to do this little piece of documentation work as a way of thanking for everything you guys did for me. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] jcabc2ps

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2002 11:31 schrieb Ulf: > Writing to a file can be made with > > > jcabc2ps bach.abc > bach.ps > > > > I suppose this is not what we expected? > > Ulf > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/

[abcusers] jcabc2ps

2002-05-01 Thread Ulf
2ps bach.abc > bach.ps I suppose this is not what we expected? Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] jazz-songbook in abcformat

2002-04-19 Thread Ulf
more complete. One thing you can do is mention on your home page that the abc files exist. I have visited homepages of a number of people who mentioned that they had certain mp3-files. I sort of came to mention that I had some others (around 5500 in all). Mostly that has led to very fruit

Re: [abcusers] The virtues of handling music graphically

2002-04-13 Thread Ulf Bro
ndo (mandoline players' email list). You haven't written a Linux version of Muse, have you? Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] The virtues of handling music graphically

2002-04-12 Thread Ulf Bro
;s all about. Abc is very very productive in that you can write a huge number of notes in a short time and don't care what it will look like afterwards. You can be sure that when you use abc2ps then at least it won't be ugly and that's good enough for me. Still I agree with your viewpoints. Both is needed. Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] What tune is this?

2002-04-06 Thread Ulf
Bd | "D7" c2 a2 a2 Ac | "G" B2 g2 g2 Bc | d^cde "D7" cBcd | "G" B2b2 b2Bd | "D7" c2 a2 a^gab | "G" g2 g2 g2 z2 || "A7" a^gab a=gfe | "D" d^cdf edcB | "A7" AB^cd efge | "D" d^cde f2 z2

Re: [abcusers] tune wanted

2002-04-06 Thread Ulf
z4 | z G G A | "G7" B G d G | "C" e4 | "E7" z4 | "Am" z e e f | "C" g> g "Gdim" f e | "G" g> G- G z | "G7" z4 | "C" z G G A | "G" B d3 | "C" z G G A | "G" B d3 | "C" z G G B | "G" d2 B2 | "C" G2 A2 | "G" G4 | z2 g>e | "C" g4 | z2 g>e | "G" g2 d2 | z2 G> G | "C" G4 | z2 G> G | "G" d4 | z4 | z4 | z4 |] snip It has been transposed to my voice which is 4 half notes up since Frankie Laine appears to sing it in Eb major. The deviation from the original version should be minimal. Your Ulf To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html