Thanks for the encouragement, John.  I am getting close to testing the final product and have gotten to know regular expressions a lot better. My first...
... I only get updates once a day and didn't realize there were other replies. I'm ready for grace notes, but slurs will take a little extra doing since the...
Hi there ! I want to ask if there is any good existing ABC parser that support the full ABC language (some relatively recent version of the language) and...
I don't know if this is useful to anyone else, but just in case I'll put it up here... This is an EBNF description of ABC 2.0. It is written in a format that...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Nov 23, 2010 8:17 am
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:33:53 +0100 ... Hi Hans, Did you look at the abcm2ps / tclabc parser? It is a single C source with its associated .h file. It contains...
The following file is in John Chamber's test suite and I ran it through abcm2ps-5.9.15 (August 2, 2010) to see what it would do, but I'm not convinced of the...
I haven't looked at the documentation to see if this is correct, but here's my take on it: Tenor clef is an awkward name. Sometimes it means treble clef down...
... abcm2ps seems to be ignoring both the clef and middle directives, and just going its own way here. Actually, using the middle directive to shift the note...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Nov 27, 2010 10:48 am
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:03:17 +0000 ... It does not ignore the clef nor the middle. The problem is that, with a tenor clef (C clef), there cannot be a B in the...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Nov 27, 2010 12:36 pm
... Sorry, thinking again at this problem, eventually 'middle' is the best directive because it completely defines the clef and the pitch (a clef type as...
From a musical sense, allowing middle to be anything but a few defined things doesn't produce meaningful output, but I suppose some tradition somewhere might...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Nov 27, 2010 5:55 pm
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:37:29 -0500 ... I vote for 'middle' as the reference. "middle=B," implies a treble clef, as "middle=C" implies an alto clef and...
The thing about abc is that it doesn't really do error checking. It just goes out on the fly and tries to convert. I think a named clef should tell it what...
... _Orchesographie_ (Arbeau, 1589), which is not in modern notation but is similar enough that someone who only knows modern notation can read it without...
if you remove the two commas after clef=bass, Skink (like BarFly) puts the C clef on the fourth line of the staff but uses B as the middle note, which is ...
... The so called "soprano clef" was in use then. Like "French Violin clef" (treble on bottom line of the staff) it is no longer much used, but whatever the...
... Yes, I think there should be three goals for the standard: 1) express anything that can possibly be needed 2) be easy to express the common things 3) make...
... Hmmm.,but what happens when the file starts to get manipulated creatively, bits taken away and used somewhere else, or a part moved into another...
I think the standard is off base here. There are three clefs: F, C, and G. Those are their proper names. The problem with the names like "alto" etc. is...
I agree with the concerns Chris describes below. The middle command is at issue here, since it allows this sort of adjustment. There are some simple...
First, I made a mistake in the octaves on my test file. I've included the corrected one below. I'm thinking that my mistake kind of proves my point that it...
Another set of clefs we should bear in mind are those used in Gregorian chant. There are two clefs, called Doh and Fa, and they can be placed on any line of...
Sigh. This isn't in the ABC 2.0 standard, so I guess that needs to be updated. The Gregorian chants are a little bit more involved because the whole look of...
... It's listed under "Features still missing" at the end. ... The only differences from normal abc are the clef specification, the single character symbols K...
I am attaching an abc data file and the resulting sheet music. If you look at ending 1 and ending 2 at the conclusion of the piece you will notice the violin 1...
Opps - you assumed correctly. I meant to mention that in my question. Thanks. ________________________________ From: Gregory Dyke <gregdyke@...> To:...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Nov 30, 2010 9:30 am
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:50:10 -0600 ... You did nothing wrong. The normal behaviour is to let clean the repeat bracket of the lower voice. If you don't want a...
I have no idea what I'm doing with the %% comments, but they work perfectly. I'll add them to my template so I can remember in the future. Thank you very...
