Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-11-13 Thread John Atchley
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Guido Gonzato wrote: > P.S. - has anybody got a song for/about a pregnant woman? My son Lorenzo is > due late January... Congrats. I don't know of any suitable trad songs but there was a really drippy song "She's Having My Baby" that came out back in the late 70's... -- J

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-11-13 Thread Phil Taylor
Guido Gonzato wrote: >On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: > >> OK for me. You may try it in abcm2ps-1.6.5 I'm uploading just now. >> >> BTW, it would be fine to have a common ABC definition on how to print >> and play multi-voice tunes... > >thanks for the upload, Jean-François. BTW, y

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-11-13 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Jean-Francois Moine wrote: > OK for me. You may try it in abcm2ps-1.6.5 I'm uploading just now. > > BTW, it would be fine to have a common ABC definition on how to print > and play multi-voice tunes... thanks for the upload, Jean-François. BTW, your statement raises an impo

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-11-12 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
Guido Gonzato a skrivas: > Hi all, Hi Guido, [snip] > While I'm at it, I may just as well ask for more. Imagine a scheme like > this: a SATB choral part and a piano/organ accompaniment. The SATB staves > could be linked by tall bar lines, but not the piano part. So, something > like: >

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-11-06 Thread Guido Gonzato
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One thing that I wondered about a while back, but didn't get any > response from: I've seen music that uses a "broken bar", in the form > of short vertical dashes (either between the staff lines or crossing > them). This is useful, for inst

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-11-01 Thread John Atchley
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Laura Conrad wrote: > > "John" == John Atchley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > John> Rather than risk abc that might break some existing parsers, > John> it might be better to use a syntax like %%stavesex ... > > Maybe it's my dirty mind, but I'd vote against

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-10-31 Thread Laura Conrad
> "John" == John Atchley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Rather than risk abc that might break some existing parsers, John> it might be better to use a syntax like %%stavesex ... Maybe it's my dirty mind, but I'd vote against that particular name. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-10-31 Thread John Atchley
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Guido Gonzato wrote: > So my question is: > > John, could you add an option to jabcm2ps to toggle tall bar lines on/off? > Jean François, would you do the same? I'll take a look at it. The change I made for this was only a few lines of code, but I remember that it did i

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-10-31 Thread Laura Conrad
> "jc" == jc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jc> One thing that I wondered about a while back, but didn't get any jc> response from: I've seen music that uses a "broken bar", in the form jc> of short vertical dashes (either between the staff lines or crossing jc> them).

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-10-31 Thread jc
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 is

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-10-31 Thread jc
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 is

Re: [abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-10-31 Thread John Walsh
Guido Gonzato writes: >While I'm at it, I may just as well ask for more. Imagine a scheme like >this: a SATB choral part and a piano/organ accompaniment. The SATB staves >could be linked by tall bar lines, but not the piano part. So, something >like: > This may be a question of language. I'

[abcusers] tall or short bar lines

2000-10-31 Thread Guido Gonzato
Hi all, I'm going to touch a subject that I know some of you have strong feelings against. The most apparent difference between abc2ps and abcm2ps is the looks of bar lines: the latter has tall bar lines that cross the vocal part. IIRC, John set out to write jabcm2ps because he couldn't stand tho