I was using the text editor on Abcedit when it froze up. I can enter a tune & even play it back. For some reason the music will not display or redraw. There is...
Abcedit is working. I think Abcedit refused to redraw because of the way Abc code works (not a glitch in Joop's program.) I left one set of quotation marks off...
... ABCedit uses abcm2ps for doing the display. If you have an ABC error, abcm2ps could choke on it, leaving ABCedit with nothing to display. Of course, since...
... way Abc code works (not a glitch in Joop's program.) I left one set of quotation marks off one chord. Midi playback worked but the music view refused to...
... I know of 5 Line Skink, which is a nice little program. However, the ABC that Skink accepts is an older version than what abcm2ps accepts. That tends to...
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:18:56 -0000, "MusiKatz" <mazurkatz@...> ... [snip] There may be a problem with the generated ABC file. May you run abcm2ps from...
Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Mar 3, 2007 8:59 am
735
This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask: why is the ABC 2.0 draft standard still "draft" after all these years? Who makes the decision to...
Steve Wyrick
sjwyrick@...
Mar 3, 2007 6:15 pm
736
I think this goes into the "One man's meat is another man's poison" or "One man's treasure is another man's trash" category. I don't think concurrence will...
Thank you for your interest. The file is working O.K. now I did not save the original because of the error. It is, however, easy to recreate. All I have to do...
On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:03:10 -0000, "MusiKatz" <mazurkatz@...> ... OK, this problem (abcm2ps crash) has been fixed in the versions 5.3.0 and 4.12.28. ...
Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Mar 5, 2007 9:04 am
741
I have a question about checking for errors. Let's say, for instance, I am using Abcedit with abcm2ps version 4.12.28 As far as I know Abcedit does not check...
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:53:28 -0000, "MusiKatz" <mazurkatz@...> ... [snip] Hello Auburn, abcm2ps prints the ABC errors it finds on stderr. Thus, running...
Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Mar 10, 2007 8:22 am
743
... What a nice feature! Is the goal to have all errors indicated? That would be totally awsome. -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk |...
1) Is there a way to skip lyrics under notes, i.e. if the voice is silent for a few notes before picking up the melody again? (without using - or _) 2) Is...
... * ... !coda! and !D.C.! (both in abcm2ps) To my knowledge D.C. al coda and D.C. al segno are still missing, but Jean-Francois can correct me if I'm ...
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:06:49 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Atte_Andr=E9_Jensen?= ... Adding such text decorations is easy: %%deco dcac 3 dacs 20 0 0 D.C. al coda ...
Jean-Francois Moine
moinejf@...
Mar 12, 2007 9:25 am
747
Thank you, both Atte Andre Jensen, and Jean-Francois Moine for helping me with that query. I have been transcribing some Walt Disney songs for a protege of...
I use abcm2ps and have a couple questions: 1/ If I have an abc file with a single tune (X:1) and two parts, is it possible to FORCE Part B to start on a new...
... Generally speaking abcm2ps will follow the abc standard, and use a new line in the music wherever there is one in the abc text, so edit the tune so that...
Thanks. A follow-up question: Many (most?) of the tunes I do have pick-up bars and using something like -B 4 causes the ps file to be offset by this pick-up...
... I think the -B option is just a quick-and-dirty solution to the problem, and won't deal with cases where you want a different number of bars on some lines...
Thanks. I'll experiment and see how it goes. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... ...
Hello all, I am writing a thesis relating to 'abc', and I would like to know why you use 'abc' as apposed to alternative notation software? Your responses and...
... * I really like the flexibility in abc (placement of accidentals, any number of beats in a 4/4 bar, stuff like that), it's the closest I've seen to a piece...
... I like the idea of text based music notation software. I only need a good editor (I use vim on my Linux box) to get started. Sibelius and Finale are great,...
Martin Tarenskeen
m.tarenskeen@...
Mar 26, 2007 10:13 pm
756
X:999 % number T:Snippet of Unknown Tune % title C:Unknown Composer; Traditional Irish?...
I have (and when pressed, still) use Finale, Encore and TablEdit. They all require a lot of work to produce an acceptable product (at least by my standards). ...
Suitable applications for my needs (mostly abcm2ps and occasionally abcmidi when I'm trying to write harmonies) on my choice of platform (Linux again), good...
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