On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:50:18 +0000 ... Hi everybody, Chris, thanks for updating the ABC 2.1 document. Here are some remarks / questions: - 2.3 Embedded abc and...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 1, 2011 6:03 pm
Hi, Chris and everybody, Here is the result of my second reading. I have restricted my comments to what I think can be admitted to 2.1 easily. Again, I am...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Dec 1, 2011 6:50 pm
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:18:03 -0000 ... I don't think so. It seems that it is treated only by abcMIDI which has the same feature in '%%MIDI octave'. As octave=...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Dec 1, 2011 8:19 pm
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:03:23 -0000 ... I think that the BOM is a bit outdated: almost everybody switched to utf-8 and most software easily recognize how the...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 1, 2011 8:39 pm
Jef, I am glad to see that you are still in the boat, so that I have no fears about the success of abc-2.1, considering the minor character of the open points....
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Richard Walker
rlwalker2
Dec 1, 2011 10:00 pm
Is there one chance in a million that 2.1 could be accepted and THEN this explosion of discussion could follow and lead to deprecations, modifications,...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 1, 2011 11:05 pm
... That would not be desirable, since this standard is meant to be much more **reliable** than previous ones, so that developers and users feel encouraged...
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Hans Davidson
harley.12358
Dec 1, 2011 11:12 pm
Hi Alex and all ! And many thanks to Chris ! About "4.18 Chord symbols", you mention diminished chords, and it seems to me after a check with wikipedia that...
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Hans Davidson
harley.12358
Dec 1, 2011 11:16 pm
... I obviously meant to write "You may know exactly what chord you want .....". Sorry and good night for today ! Hans...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 1, 2011 11:25 pm
You're right, it is not a simple topic for quick decisions. For the 2.1 document, I recommend to write something like: If the chord symbol sticks to the...
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Jim Coon
liteguy.rm
Dec 1, 2011 11:49 pm
... It works in ABCMUS When I was using it and it worked in ABCedit. so if it worked in those it could be incorporated in ABCexplorer, and it would load...
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Chuck Boody
chuck_boody
Dec 2, 2011 5:41 am
Quite common usage (without the little zero thing) is Cdim and Cdim7. I would assume the standard would accept both. Chuck Boody...
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Richard Walker
rlwalker2
Dec 2, 2011 6:08 am
Hope so. Hasn't worked in the past. We'll see. ________________________________ From: scheutzow4cond <scheutzow4cond@...> If you hold back your...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Dec 2, 2011 11:54 am
... It accepts, just does not define them. { I think there are too many flavours of gchords to define the syntax right now for ABC 2.1 in these three weeks....
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Steve Langford
slangford97
Dec 2, 2011 12:01 pm
Friends, I've been kibitzing for awhile. I think that mention of a module that converts a .PDF file to the .ABC format has been made. Is that now an available...
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Marc Sabatella
marc_sabatella
Dec 2, 2011 4:52 pm
No, there is no single program that does this, for the reasons that have explained in quite some detail in the previous posts on the subject. There are...
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Steve Langford
slangford97
Dec 2, 2011 5:26 pm
Thanks, Mark. I've been too busy to follow all that's gone by, and I've come up with a suitable approach. Myriad Music's PDFtoMusic is nice shareware and ...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Dec 2, 2011 11:35 pm
Hi. My comments are attached (I hope). Best. Hudson ... -- '-------------------------------------------------------------------. Hudson Lacerda ...
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:35:11 -0200 ... I think that the example is good: the +: continues the w:. If there was "I:vocalfont ..", the +: would continue this I:...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Dec 3, 2011 8:13 am
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:18:03 -0000 ... Sorry for my previous erroneous remark. Indeed, octave= should be in the standard: . [octave=<number>] - raise (positive...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Dec 3, 2011 11:05 am
... Ah, right. I did not realise. Thanks. Hudson -- '-------------------------------------------------------------------. Hudson Lacerda ...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 3, 2011 2:04 pm
To all developers and everybody who has not responded yet: Please go through the document and post a complete list of those paragraphs/features you do not seem...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 3, 2011 2:08 pm
Typo: Please go through the document and post a complete list of those paragraphs/features you do not __deem__ fit... (or ... _that_ do not seem fit to you...
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Steve Merrony
merronys
Dec 3, 2011 2:37 pm
Hi, I just released an updated version of my MusicXML to ABC converter (version 1.4). Many changes and improvements are incorporated - see ...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Dec 3, 2011 5:38 pm
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:04:47 -0000 ... Alex, you are dreaming! I don't think anybody will change anything in his/her software before some user asks for it....
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 3, 2011 7:08 pm
... Indeed, and a number of my dreams have already become reality. It is of course up to every author's policy to decide how soon "as soon as possible" will...
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Richard Robinson
richardrobinson@...
Dec 4, 2011 2:13 pm
... Yes. I've had reservations about jumping into this, having been "away" so long. But, it's a point that hasn't become any less relevant - anybody who ...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 4, 2011 3:52 pm
Richard, your did not really comment on the question Hudson and I were addressing. Note that A: will stand for "area" in abc-2.1, so your problem is more or...
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Richard Robinson
richardrobinson@...
Dec 4, 2011 6:39 pm
... I'm sorry - I was seeing the bunch of "comment now on the finalisation of 2.1, or it'll be too late" comments, and failed to note that this was a different...
