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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 24 Feb 2000.
Re: ASCII Music Notation?

Re: ASCII Music Notation?

Henry Segerman (sjo...@sable.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
| _____._______________________.___________________
| _____|____|____._____________|____|____._________
| ___(_|__,-|____|____|______(X|__,v|____|____|____
| ________`-'__(_|__,-|___________`^'__(X|__,v|____
| __________________`-'_____________________`^'____


| This last one looks clearest to me.


I believe the primary problem with all the proposals is that the staff
lines take up too much of the narrow contrast-bandwidth afforded by ASCII
characters.  Perhaps you should consider trying to reduce this effect
somehow.  For example, rather than using dash or underscore, use something
small like a dot.  Or simply increase the white space around every note.
Here's what I mean:

.................................................
.....|....|..................|....|..............
...(_|..,-|....|....|......(X|..,v|....|....|....
........`-'..(_|..,_|...........`^'..(X|..,v|....
..................`_'.....................`^'....

____ . __   ________________ . __   _____________
__  _| _  | __ . __   ____  _| _  | __ . __   ___
__ (_|  ,-|   _| __ | ____ (X|  ,v|   _| _  | ___
_______ `-'  (_|  ,_| _________ `^'  (X|  ,v| ___
_________________ `_' ___________________ `^'____

-- 
Keith W. Blackwell

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From: kwb...@lvld.hp.com (Keith Blackwell)
Subject: Re: ASCII Music Notation?
Date: 2000/02/24
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