Re: ASCII Music Notation?
From Keith Blackwell <kwb...@lvld.hp.com>
· alt.ascii-art
· 24 Feb 2000 00:00 · View full thread
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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 ** If sending email, please edit the return address (remove "NO.UCE.PLEASE."). ** Or use (without the spaces): < keith . blackwell @ agilent . com > . ** My employer has nothing to do with this posting. ** By the way, I rarely participate in this group, so excuse any fox paws.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fcd51,19decf54ba88c61b X-Google-Attributes: gidfcd51,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,d02446ad6a688f41 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: kwb...@lvld.hp.com (Keith Blackwell) Subject: Re: ASCII Music Notation? Date: 2000/02/24 Message-ID: <8940on$17t$1...@fcnews.fc.hp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 589434571 References: <88e8l1$33h$1...@xs4.xs4all.nl> <crZq4.24$kD3...@sapphire.mtt.net> <88rlih$6fn$1...@xs4.xs4all.nl> <KkGs4.96$gz3...@sapphire.mtt.net> <890g30$8r2$1...@xs4.xs4all.nl> <slr...@pc9601.sie.siemens.at> <892uf5$c03$1...@news.ox.ac.uk> <893d81$k27$1...@news.ox.ac.uk> Followup-To: alt.ascii-art,rec.music.compose Organization: Northern Colorado Reply-To: kei...@homemail.NO.UCE.PLEASE.com Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,rec.music.compose
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