Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-16 Thread John Chambers
Bernard Hill writes: | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes | >flats you find at the start of the staff; "global accidentals" are | >accidentals applied to notes throughout the music. (Does anybody ever use | >these?) | | French Horn parts (and maybe brass in general) in orches

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-16 Thread Bernard Hill
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes >John Chambers wrote - > >>I've also found the phrase "explicit key signature" more useful than >>"global accidentals", though I don't suppose that's a real big deal. > >These seem to me to be two separate things. Whem converted to conventio

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-16 Thread Richard Robinson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:03:25AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard Robinson wrote - > > >abc2win introduced constructs, out of the blue, > >that the abc->ps family have never _been_ able to read. > > I really wish I understood this hate campaign against abc2win. If I'm running a "camp

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-16 Thread Gerry McCartney
Bryan Creer wrote: I really wish I understood this hate campaign against abc2win.  On his website, Jim Vint credits a great many people who gave him support some of whom are still active on this list) so he didn't work in isolation.  Many developers have introduced their innovatio

[abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-16 Thread Bryancreer
Richard Robinson wrote - >abc2win introduced constructs, out of the blue, >that the abc->ps family have never _been_ able to read. I really wish I understood this hate campaign against abc2win.  On his website, Jim Vint credits a great many people who gave him support some of whom are still activ

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-16 Thread Dave Holland
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:50:40PM +, John Chambers wrote: > (Has anyone written any musical parodies in abc yet? Aside from the > good old 4'33", that is.) I wrote an arrangement of "The Morning Star" (from O'Neill) for string quartet using ABC, but I'm not sure that's the kind of thing you

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:50:40PM +, John Chambers wrote: > Phil Taylor writes: > | Bryan Creer wrote: > | >Unfortunately, to really to solve compatability problems you need a > | >masochistic altruist who will go back and remove all the line-break !s > | >from all the > | >tune files created

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Robinson
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:54:25PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: > Bryan Creer wrote: > > >Unfortunately, to really to solve compatability problems you need a > >masochistic altruist who will go back and remove all the line-break !s > >from all the > >tune files created with abc2win over the last eigh

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-15 Thread John Chambers
Phil Taylor writes: | Bryan Creer wrote: | >Unfortunately, to really to solve compatability problems you need a | >masochistic altruist who will go back and remove all the line-break !s | >from all the | >tune files created with abc2win over the last eight years or so which | >might annoy | >the pe

Re: [abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-15 Thread Phil Taylor
Bryan Creer wrote: >Unfortunately, to really to solve compatability problems you need a >masochistic altruist who will go back and remove all the line-break !s >from all the >tune files created with abc2win over the last eight years or so which >might annoy >the people who chose to put them in. (

[abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-15 Thread Bryancreer
Richard Robinson wrote - >It woul be a start. I fear the only real answer (or not even that) would be >for some masochistic altruist^H^H^H^H wonderful person to write a Windows >app providing similar functionality, to which people could be encouraged >to "upgrade" in order to solve compatability p

[abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-15 Thread Bryancreer
John Chambers wrote - >The difference is somewhat minimal, though. The original text had as >example "K:D =c", which implies a key signature of two sharps but >with a natural written before all the c's. The natural reaction to >this is "If all the c's are natural, why put a c sharp

[abcusers] Re: Announcement: ABC 2.0.0 draft online

2003-07-15 Thread Bryancreer
John Chambers wrote - >I've also found the phrase "explicit key signature" more useful than >"global accidentals", though I don't suppose that's a real big deal. These seem to me to be two separate things. Whem converted to conventional notation, an "explicit key signature" is the collection of