Comments for abc notation blog http://abcnotation.com/blog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on tunepal.org by Nice review of tunepal.org « tunepal.org http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/03/02/tunepal-org/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Nice review of tunepal.org « tunepal.org Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:51:37 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=271#comment-130 [...] http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/03/02/tunepal-org/   [...] [...] http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/03/02/tunepal-org/   [...]

]]> Comment on Linux & multi-platform software by Balage http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/02/12/linux-multi-platform-software/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Balage Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:29:14 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=234#comment-116 thx!! I has missed this list very much. thx!! I has missed this list very much.

]]> Comment on You what? by Chris http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/02/05/you-what/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Chris Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:05:55 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=227#comment-82 I do indeed enjoy the nonsensical - especially the last one ("valuable poop" is a phrase that will stay with me for some time - could it be an electronic translation of "good sh*t"?). Re the software - have you tried suggesting AbcExplorer to your piper friends? It's pretty complete GUI / WYSIWYG experience (including a piano keyboard for note entry). And free. Cheers, Chris I do indeed enjoy the nonsensical – especially the last one (“valuable poop” is a phrase that will stay with me for some time – could it be an electronic translation of “good sh*t”?).
Re the software – have you tried suggesting AbcExplorer to your piper friends? It’s pretty complete GUI / WYSIWYG experience (including a piano keyboard for note entry). And free.
Cheers,
Chris

]]> Comment on You what? by Geoff http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/02/05/you-what/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Geoff Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:43:26 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=227#comment-80 Don't you just love the non-sensicle (?) replies. Oh well, as you said, makes life interesting. Oh yes, ABC - well after trying TEX, Piob mhor & other (bagpipe) music notation software, I have been using ABC for years now, for both bagpipe and 'normal'/other music. It does pretty much everything I need - pipe music, multiple voices, lyrics/words, formatting, exporting, etc. A great product(s). I try and endorse it whenever I can. It's a bit like hitting a brick wall when talking to other pipers though - they are hard to wean off the GUI-based notation software :( Yours aye, Geoff Don’t you just love the non-sensicle (?) replies. Oh well, as you said, makes life interesting.

Oh yes, ABC – well after trying TEX, Piob mhor & other (bagpipe) music notation software, I have been using ABC for years now, for both bagpipe and ‘normal’/other music. It does pretty much everything I need – pipe music, multiple voices, lyrics/words, formatting, exporting, etc. A great product(s). I try and endorse it whenever I can. It’s a bit like hitting a brick wall when talking to other pipers though – they are hard to wean off the GUI-based notation software :(

Yours aye,
Geoff

]]> Comment on How to get started with abc notation by Shantanu H. Joshi http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/12/23/how-to-get-started-with-abc-notation/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Shantanu H. Joshi Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:49:46 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=108#comment-44 Just what I was looking for. I could quickly compose a tune, and even transcribe it with the tools you have pointed to. Thanks a lot. Merry Christmas !!! Just what I was looking for. I could quickly compose a tune, and even transcribe it with the tools you have pointed to.

Thanks a lot. Merry Christmas !!!

]]> Comment on Metallica by Sara http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/07/01/metallica/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Sara Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:02:09 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=29#comment-35 I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often. Sara http://pianonotes.info I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Sara

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]]> Comment on Two weeks in by Richard Robinson http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/07/05/two-weeks-in/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Richard Robinson Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:25:20 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=38#comment-12 "In particular (as far as I know) there is no way of detecting whether a file is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 (or something else) until you have read the entire file in – for example, if the very last character in the file was the only one with an accent" Yes. Unless it's got some sort of header, and you choose to believe it. My site's accepting submitted tunes online, so I'm going for 'be liberal in what you accept', converting all input to utf-8 and working in that, going back to something the abc progs can handle when I need to generate an image/midi &c. Ideally, I'd like all comers to be able to submit, eg, a title in whatever language they want to write it, and have it render properly ... “In particular (as far as I know) there is no way of detecting whether a file is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 (or something else) until you have read the entire file in – for example, if the very last character in the file was the only one with an accent”

Yes. Unless it’s got some sort of header, and you choose to believe it.

My site’s accepting submitted tunes online, so I’m going for ‘be liberal in what you accept’, converting all input to utf-8 and working in that, going back to something the abc progs can handle when I need to generate an image/midi &c. Ideally, I’d like all comers to be able to submit, eg, a title in whatever language they want to write it, and have it render properly …

]]> Comment on Two weeks in by Chris http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/07/05/two-weeks-in/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Chris Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:19:10 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=38#comment-10 Yes - doing it live / in real time during a search is a problem. In particular (as far as I know) there is no way of detecting whether a file is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 (or something else) until you have read the entire file in - for example, if the very last character in the file was the only one with an accent. However, the abc tune search indexes files off-line (as Google and most / all other search engines do) so I convert them all to ISO-8859-1 - by far the most popular encoding - at that point. Chris Yes – doing it live / in real time during a search is a problem.

In particular (as far as I know) there is no way of detecting whether a file is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 (or something else) until you have read the entire file in – for example, if the very last character in the file was the only one with an accent.

However, the abc tune search indexes files off-line (as Google and most / all other search engines do) so I convert them all to ISO-8859-1 – by far the most popular encoding – at that point.

Chris

]]> Comment on Two weeks in by Richard Robinson http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/07/05/two-weeks-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Richard Robinson Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:27:35 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=38#comment-7 "I’m still having nightmares about UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1". *laughter*. I came here because I just heard you on R4 mentioning ABC from China - I've been having them too. I think they start as soon as you begin accepting live input over the web ... Does your therapist have any suggestions for making them stop ? I've fallen rather out of touch with developments. Is anybody dealing with Encodings at all ? All I know of is abcm2ps's choice of 6, which helps for our locality, but won't do the Chinese much good. One quick fix is to write ABC in utf8 and translate it into Lilypond. This mangles it in other ways, and I don't know how far it'll go, but if you just want to print a Welsh tune with a W-circumflex in the title ... Oh, and the idea of people looking them up from Timbuktu is fun, too. “I’m still having nightmares about UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1″.

*laughter*. I came here because I just heard you on R4 mentioning ABC from China – I’ve been having them too. I think they start as soon as you begin accepting live input over the web …

Does your therapist have any suggestions for making them stop ? I’ve fallen rather out of touch with developments. Is anybody dealing with Encodings at all ? All I know of is abcm2ps’s choice of 6, which helps for our locality, but won’t do the Chinese much good.

One quick fix is to write ABC in utf8 and translate it into Lilypond. This mangles it in other ways, and I don’t know how far it’ll go, but if you just want to print a Welsh tune with a W-circumflex in the title …

Oh, and the idea of people looking them up from Timbuktu is fun, too.

]]> Comment on Urban myths by Chris http://abcnotation.com/blog/2009/06/29/urban-myths/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Chris Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:12:32 +0000 http://abcnotation.com/blog/?p=21#comment-4 Of course. Everything you read on the interweb is true. Except this. Chris Of course. Everything you read on the interweb is true.

Except this.

Chris

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