... The restriction only makes sense if applied to ANY embedded fields: [I:postscript \[ 5 3 \] 0 setdash] CDE [V:3 name="Tbn. \[Orig.: Pos.\]"] CDE ... AFAIK,...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 10, 2011 1:36 pm
Hi, Chris and everybody, here are my additional annotations to the standard document coming from my third reading. Again, my observations are of minor...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 10, 2011 9:33 am
# 6.2 Playback # # Many of the information fields are ignored by playback programs - # exceptions are I:, K:, L:, M:, m:, P;, Q:, s:, U: and V:. Add something...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 10, 2011 9:18 am
... This adds a smidgen of parsing overhead, but from a user point of view would be very clean. I've been abusing P: syntax for a while, in tunes where I...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Dec 10, 2011 8:48 am
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:33:12 -0000 ... Agree. Here is another formulation: - A tune may be divided into parts. - In the tune body, a part starts on a P: field...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 9, 2011 8:54 pm
Of course I am using the word MIDI as a shorthand for any kind of audible rendering. The problem as I see it is best illustrated when contrasted to voices. An...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 9, 2011 8:33 pm
I thought you would write that, although nobody is criticizing you or anybody else. My point is that P: could be more useful if all its users (which does not...
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Philip Taylor
carpedestria
Dec 9, 2011 7:39 pm
... No it doesn't. In some printed music you will see parts identified by letters, and a string of such letters at the top to specify the order in which the...
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Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Dec 9, 2011 7:13 pm
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:48:26 -0000 "scheutzow4cond" <scheutzow4cond@...> wrote: [snip] ... abcm2ps does not analyze the 'P:'s. If you don't want it in...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 9, 2011 6:48 pm
Why "not at all"? What you are writing amounts to my "**internally for MIDI purposes only**". abcm2ps allows multi-character P: IDs and actually prints them,...
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Paul Hardy
paulghardy
Dec 9, 2011 5:23 pm
I'd independently spotted the same thing in my (on-going) read-through of the standard. My vote for 2.1 would be to allow either comma or semicolon as ...
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Richard Robinson
richardrobinson@...
Dec 9, 2011 4:47 pm
... I was told a few days ago that the standard currently under discussion doesn't intend to deal with database-type issues, so I suspect this'll be seen the...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 9, 2011 4:34 pm
# 4.16 Redefinable symbols # # As a short cut to writing symbols which avoids the !symbol! syntax (see # decorations), the letters H-W and h-w and the symbol ~...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 9, 2011 4:22 pm
# 4.15 Symbol lines # # Adding many symbols to a line of music can make a tune difficult to # read. In such cases, a symbol line (a line that contains only...
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Chuck Boody
chuck_boody
Dec 9, 2011 3:21 pm
Glenn, Let me know about the configure/make issues. I do the compile of the Mac stuff. I'll see what I can do. Chuck Boody...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 9, 2011 1:56 pm
[This probably does not need to be addressed in 2.1 but I wanted to bring it up for discussion anyhow.] Okay, this might come off as a little nitpicky (and...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 9, 2011 12:06 pm
... Thanks -- using it now under MacOS 10.5 (there's some configure/make strangeness under MacOS 10.6 that I'll email you about). Looking forward to the next...
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Steve Merrony
merronys
Dec 9, 2011 8:49 am
Excellent! Thanks Seymour. /Stephen Merrony/ /...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 9, 2011 5:48 am
... The fix: append, "See section 3.2 regarding the use of additional occurrences of these fields." to the end of that paragraph. -- Glenn...
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Philip Taylor
carpedestria
Dec 8, 2011 10:39 pm
... Not at all. P: dates back a long time, and was introduced in order to represent the rather complex patterns of repeating parts found in English Morris...
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seymour.shlien
Dec 8, 2011 10:30 pm
I have fixed the fermata rest problem (malformed note) eg Hz2 I have yet to figure out what is going on with the lyrics. The latest version is...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 8, 2011 9:16 pm
# 3. Information fields # # [...] # # Within the tune body each line of code is processed in sequence. # Therefore, with the exception of s:(symbol line),...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 8, 2011 8:57 pm
Forgive me if this has already been addressed -- I'm fitting ABC stuff in around the edges of everything else lately, alas ... # 2.2.1 Abc tune # # An abc tune...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 8, 2011 8:52 pm
... I missed (or more likely forgot) the fact that you were following this mailing list now -- rendering moot my "should I email a bug report or am I just...
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scheutzow4cond
Dec 8, 2011 7:19 pm
Hi Seymour, I am very glad to see that you are following the discussion. If I understand you correctly, you agree that MIDI output and score graphics should...
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seymour.shlien
Dec 8, 2011 1:47 pm
I am sorry that abc2midi has caused some grief. I will look into this problem and see what I can do. Note that abc2midi processes each voice independently, so...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Dec 8, 2011 12:22 am
Hi Glenn, abc2midi only treats correctly simultaneous fermatas on notes of equal length (because it doubles the values). You may: - run abcmidi with the option...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 7, 2011 11:53 pm
Crude workaround: replaced 'H' with 'h' in voice 2 (vim command ":g/V:2]/s/H/h/g"), added "#define h !fermata!" near the top of the file, and changed my...
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dglenn@...
dglennarthurjr
Dec 7, 2011 11:30 pm
I was trying to transcribe one of my old songs, and couldn't get the guitar to enter at the right time. After some poking around, it looks like the whole...
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Hudson Lacerda
hfmlacerda
Dec 5, 2011 11:31 am
Chris, What is the difference between "a single [H:] entry" and "two [H:] entries" in section 3.1.13? Should continued H: lines be broken to fit the page width...
