Re: ASCII Music Notation?

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jan...@xs4.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Yes, well the biggest probem is the pitch on the 5 char staff.  I feel
> the 9 char staff is too big to be of real use.

 It also seems to me so. But maybe for some people this can also be
useful, like for lynx/w3m enhanced web-pages :)

> Maybe, for black notes, we could go
> 
>     ---------------|--
>     -------|---|---|--
>     ---|---|--x|--*---
>     --x|--*-----------
>     ------------------

 It isn't really obvious which is the one between the lines - should it
be the x below the line or the * above the line...

> but it's currently not possible to have different note heads (*,x) for
> similar notes.  I hope to pull a trick somehow.  However, the white notes
> are even more tricky.  You made some elaborate attempts, but they're not
> so cute (imo), rather difficult to read and not easily interchangeable
> 
> 
>     ------------|---|--
>     --------|---|-,-|--
>     ---|--,-|--O|-`-'--
>     --O|--`-'----------
>     -------------------

 I think that's a quite good approach. Maybe you should try to do the
black notes also this way?  But that really seems tricky to me. I can't
come up with anything useful, sorry.

> That's why I'm a bit tempted to go
>                      
>     ---------------|--
>     -------|---|---|--
>     ---|---|--o|--�---
>     --o|--�-----------
>     ------------------
> 
> for now.

 Watch out! � isn't ASCII - it wouldn't look like you think (the
degree-character) on other person's displays.  Maybe a non-ascii version
is the only way to go. But than you would loose quite sure the people in
the us who are using only ascii and nothing else (AFAIK).  You could
make some checks for what the display is able to show (depends on the
library you are using, ncurses, slang or anything...). But that wouldn't
really help you with those displays that can display only us-ascii.  So
I would forget about that approach - at least as long you don't have a
decent version for us-ascii.

> Thanks.
> What operating system do you use?  What you donwloaded, are the
> sources to the program.  You did unpack the .tar.gz archive,
> didn't you? 

 According to her headers s/he is using Win98 :)

> If you're running Windows, it may be a bit difficult to get it
> compiled.  The latest binary available is for version 1.2.0, iirc.
> This may be addressed shortly.

 Maybe using the cygwin-tools? Has one tried it?  Does it depend on any
special libraries?

 Have fun [in a GNU-world ;]
-- 
Gerfried Fuchs
<URL:mailto:alf...@innocent.com>
<URL:http://alfie.ist.org/alfie/>

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