Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-27 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
On 24 Jun 2003 22:37:23 -0400, Christopher Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jean-Francois, Hello Chris, [snip] >BTW, I'm using abcm2ps-2.11.3 (May 5, 2002) if that makes any >difference. [snip] It makes! Annotations work correctly starting from version 3.5.0. About deco.abc,

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-25 Thread MCPearce0
Using "<("">)"G with abcm2ps 3.3.1 actually produces something like:   (     >) to the left of the note, seemingly taking the string after < as a unit and ignoring the middle quotes. This does more or less accord with the 1.7.6 version of abc which says (in the copy from Chris

Re: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-25 Thread chrismyers
TECTED] > Subject: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc. > > Chris comments: > | Jean-Francois, > | > | I just got around to trying out your suggestion below for enclosing a > | note in parentheses: > | > | > > | > Yes, you may use annotatio

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-25 Thread John Chambers
Chris comments: | Jean-Francois, | | I just got around to trying out your suggestion below for enclosing a | note in parentheses: | | > | > Yes, you may use annotations: | > | > "<("">)"A | | And it doesn't work. Instead of getting a note in parentheses, what I | get is a "guitar chord" that l

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher Myers
Jean-Francois, I just got around to trying out your suggestion below for enclosing a note in parentheses: > > Yes, you may use annotations: > > "<("">)"A And it doesn't work. Instead of getting a note in parentheses, what I get is a "guitar chord" that looks like this: <( >) The pro

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-18 Thread Jean-Francois Moine
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:32:45 -0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >(NOTE - using abcm2ps) > >Problem 1: >As far as I can tell, you can only align chords with actual notes. >This is a problem for me. Suppose I have a measure that looks >like this (M:C, L:1/4) > >E/D/ C3 > >and I wan

Re: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread chrismyers
AIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Problem 1: > > As far as I can tell, you can only align chords with actual notes. > > This is a problem for me. Suppose I have a measure that

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread Bert Van Vreckem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem 1: As far as I can tell, you can only align chords with actual notes. This is a problem for me. Suppose I have a measure that looks like this (M:C, L:1/4) E/D/ C3 and I want guitar chords to change on beats 1 and 3. If I do this: "Am"E/D/ "C"C3 It looks l

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread MCPearce0
> How about > > "Am"E/D/ C-"C"C2 > > ? > > This would also be clearer to read for the accompanist, and it doesn't violate > the guideline that the third beat of a bar in common time should be visibly > delineated (ie beat two shouldn't be a dotted minim!) > >This is a real "guideline"?  I'v

Re: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread Dave Holland
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:21:51AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a real "guideline"? I've never heard that one before. I think it's the generally accepted way in Western classical music. As you imply, jazz may have its own conventions (I don't know much about jazz). Dave To subscribe

Re: Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread chrismyers
> > How about > > "Am"E/D/ C-"C"C2 > > ? > > This would also be clearer to read for the accompanist, and it doesn't violate > the guideline that the third beat of a bar in common time should be visibly > delineated (ie beat two shouldn't be a dotted minim!) > This is a real "guideline"? I

Re: [abcusers] abcm2ps, guitar chords, vocal music, etc.

2003-06-16 Thread Calum Galleitch
On Monday 16 June 2003 2:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Suppose I have a measure that looks > like this (M:C, L:1/4) > > E/D/ C3 > > and I want guitar chords to change on beats 1 and 3. If I do this: > > "Am"E/D/ "C"C3 > > It looks like the "C" chord should start on beat 2. If I put the "C" >