I need to set the record straight. My prior post was wrong. ABCedit can properly set the note length for polkas. In defense of Joop's application it includes...
... Can you provide some more details on what went wrong with ABCedit? I have been using it for some time now, and haven't run into problems with saving or...
Hello Folks, I have been using ABC happily for several years, but just joined the group today, having just bought a new PC... I installed the software from my...
... I gather that you are having trouble getting an ABC program to work on your new PC. The question that I have for you is, what program is it that you are...
Hi Geoffrey, Thanks for your help. The program was ABC2Win, and I am now sorted after downloading the latest beta version. On-On /Yogi PS: Maybe now I'm a...
... Glad to hear that you have been able to find an updated version. I've installed the latest beta version of ABC2Win on my XP computer and had it running,...
I use four different ABC applications - including a lightweight MID2Abc. Though this particular app often rejects my text files I try to use that aspect. If...
... You'll pardon my rearranging your message, but it flows a little easier this way. Your personal use (other than the printing, which I have yet to do much...
You can probably fix your songbook files by opening them in whatever program you made them with and saving them as a text file. Or open them in windows...
I was going to try to contact Seymour Shlien direct, but decided there might be others who would be happy to share in this: What's the source for the clearest...
As it is the utility I have used longest, is freeware (with an option to contribute to development costs), and am familiar with, I tend to do most of my...
... You can find everything you want here: http://archive.cs.uu.nl/pub/MIDI/ There's a huge amount of documentation and other stuff there, but the file you...
... Sorry for not making myself clear. My songbook files were created in various ways, including via Notepad. Every other Windows program I have, including...
Geoffrey, you don't understand. Notepad and the other programs will open most any type of file and most can save them in several formats. Tocorrect your...
... Having done a lot of work with Unix systems, and having had to deal with the differences between Unix text files and Windows / DOS text files, I know what...
I copied the text of Paddy O'Rafferty into Notepad & saved it as a text file <pad_o.abc> It was accepted by all four of my applications: MID2Abc,ABC...
... "SAVE AS". ... For Windows users, I'd suggest trying abcmus, by Henrik Norbeck. It is (inexpensive) shareware, has a text editor, a very good midi...
John Walsh
walsh@...
Jan 6, 2007 5:31 am
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Any chance this is the text file difference between unix and msdos? Unix uses a CR (or LF) while msdos uses both CRLF after each line. If so, there is a...
Having also spent a lot of time (over 30 years) moving files between Windows and Unix (and VMS and MVS, and DOS, and ...), this apparently simple task is...
I have been using ABCMUS for play back and searching ABC folders for all the incidences of a particular tune in any of the files. ABC2WIN for editing and...
Can you upload a sample of one of your files that you are having trouble with and maybe we can figure out what is happening. There should be a files link at...
... Apologies for the highly delayed reply, due to festive season, etc. This solution works perfectly, for which many thanks are due :) The tablature stuff...
Calum Galleitch
abc@...
Jan 6, 2007 6:00 pm
586
... I reinstalled ABC2Win and tried to load in another of my song files. Sure enough, the error message popped up, only this time I read it more closely. Text...
Before you get too carried away with the raspberries, I think you have to take into consideration that English may not be his native tongue. Did you try giving...
... Sorry for getting a bit carried away, but, from working in the computer field, I have really come to hate poorly designed messages to the user. I am, of...
... I don't particularly miss the "Save As" with ABCedit - it seems to save directly as a text file with the .abc extension rather than .txt, which is fine...
With ABC2WIN I can open an abc file, pick out as many tunes as I want and export them to another file that alredy has tunes in it or I can make a new file and...
... Good idea about using ABC2Win that way. I just tried it out and, even with tunes that it doesn't like the ABC code of, it will nicely export them into...
Ok, I am again trying out abcEdit. IT just doesn't work right. I opened an existing file and started to enter a new tune. Every thing looks great but I...
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