abc wiki - abc:standard:v2.1:proposals:transposition

independent-shift-use-case

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-08-16T12:15:25+00:00

The independent-shift use-case There have been a number of people who have queried the need for independent shift operators (score and sound) and actually they are probably not necessary for standard transposing instruments, where all that is required is to specify the transposition between concert pitch and the instrument's written pitch.

poll

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-07-14T07:23:07+00:00

Question A. Combining / overriding / extended syntax A number of options for allowing re-transposition have been discussed, mostly relating to how the modifiers in a K: or V: field interact with each other (either combining or overriding). There are five choices.

v1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-01-05T19:41:35+00:00

Transposition proposal: summary * This page contains an initial draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011 and subsequently in Dec 2011 / Jan 2012).

v2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-01-06T11:25:04+00:00

Transposition proposal: summary * This page contains a second draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011 and subsequently in Dec 2011 / Jan 2012).

v3

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-01-20T17:47:45+00:00

Transposition proposal: summary * This page contains the third draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011 and subsequently in Dec 2011 / Jan 2012).

v4

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-01-27T18:14:13+00:00

Transposition proposal: summary * This page contains the fourth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011 and subsequently in Dec 2011 / Jan 2012).

v5

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-01-27T16:37:05+00:00

Transposition proposal: summary * This page contains the fifth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011 and subsequently in Dec 2011 / Jan 2012).

v6

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-02-17T15:15:22+00:00

Transposition proposal: summary This page contains the sixth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011 and subsequently in Dec 2011 - Feb 2012). It is based on numerous comments, suggestions and proposals from lots of contributors.

v7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-02-17T23:22:04+00:00

Transposition proposal: summary This page contains the seventh draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011 and subsequently in Dec 2011 - Feb 2012). It is based on numerous comments, suggestions and proposals from lots of contributors.

v8

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-02-22T09:04:55+00:00

Transposition proposal: summary This page contains the eighth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011 and subsequently in Dec 2011 - Feb 2012). It is based on numerous comments, suggestions and proposals from lots of contributors.

v9

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-08-23T17:50:44+00:00

Transposition proposal - summary: This page contains the ninth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (following hundreds of messages on the abcusers mailing list in Sep 2011, Dec 2011 - Feb 2012 and Aug 2012). It is based on numerous comments, suggestions and proposals from lots of contributors.

v10

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-06-10T16:39:08+00:00

Transposition proposal - summary This page contains the tenth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc (based on numerous comments, suggestions and proposals on the abcusers mailing list from 2011 to 2012). Following a near 2-year hiatus this latest proposal merges ideas from my previous proposal and Alex Scheutzow's second proposal, yet represents a significant simplification of both.

v11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-06-18T09:54:54+00:00

Transposition proposal - summary This page contains the eleventh draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc. It involves only minor changes from the tenth draft: * Minor change of syntax from instrument= / written=

v12

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-06-24T09:21:07+00:00

Transposition proposal - summary This page contains the twelfth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc. It involves only minor changes from the eleventh draft: * K: and V: modifiers now combine with other modifiers in the same field (although fields still override previous fields)

v13

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-07-25T11:22:03+00:00

Transposition proposal - summary This page contains the thirteenth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc. It involves only minor changes from the twelfth draft: * K: and V: modifiers combine with other modifiers in the same field (as before) but

v14

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-08-02T07:53:49+00:00

Transposition proposal - summary This page contains the fourteenth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc. It involves a fairly fundamental change from the thirteen in that all four modifiers, instrument, shift, score

v15

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-02-11T17:07:48+00:00

Transposition proposal - summary This page contains the fifteenth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc. It involves only minor changes from the thirteenth draft (the fourteenth draft looked at another approach) plus some additional features:

v16

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-07-04T10:01:56+00:00

Transposition proposal - summary This page contains the sixteenth draft of a proposal to extend the transcription capabilities within abc. It is somewhat scaled back from the fifteenth proposal but with a few additional features: * the shift modifier is now independent from