On Fri 14 Dec 2018 at 17:32:59 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote:
> I was so disappointed with the complete mess the current abc2ly makes of
> Irish tunes from the vast repository at thesession.org that I started
> looking into this. The others mentioned that using abc2xml and then using
> musixxml2ly
Hi Laura,
I was so disappointed with the complete mess the current abc2ly makes of
Irish tunes from the vast repository at thesession.org that I started
looking into this. The others mentioned that using abc2xml and then using
musixxml2ly supplied with lilypond is the way forward. I found this to
> "Andrew" == Andrew Bernard writes:
Andrew> I had such poor results with abc2ly just recently that I
Andrew> can't imagine there is any user base using it in earnest, or
Andrew> even at all, else there would be lots of complaints. Or
Andrew> perhaps I was doing something wron
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:21:44 +0100, Urs Liska wrote:
> It sounds reasonable to drop the current abc2ly implementation. However,
> I think we shouldn't do this without somehow including abc2xml in the
> distribution and (probably) create a wrapper script abc2ly that
> transparently replaces the
Hi Urs,
I had such poor results with abc2ly just recently that I can't imagine
there is any user base using it in earnest, or even at all, else there
would be lots of complaints. Or perhaps I was doing something wrong. I feel
that it does not deserve a place in the stable.
I think instead of incl
Am 10.12.18 um 12:18 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
Hi Rutger, this is great.
But I think you mean this page:
https://wim.vree.org/svgParse/abc2xml.html
[Took me a while to figure that out.]
I conclude it's not worth spending any energy on lilypond abc2ly.
Sounds like it should even be dropped, an
Hi Rutger, this is great.
But I think you mean this page:
https://wim.vree.org/svgParse/abc2xml.html
[Took me a while to figure that out.]
I conclude it's not worth spending any energy on lilypond abc2ly. Sounds
like it should even be dropped, and perhaps the NR could day how to achieve
ABC to
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Rutger Hofman wrote:
Isn't it possible (and easy) to use Wim Vree's utility abc2xml, see
https://wim.vree.org/svgParse/xml2abc.html to convert to MusicXML and then
convert the MusicXML into lilypond? From a maintenance/engineering view, it
is much preferable to have one
On 10-12-18 10:40, Andrew Bernard wrote:
Hi Johan,
Having recently become interested in Irish Traditional Music where there
are countless tens of thousands of tunes in ABC, the de facto standard
for the tradition, I'd be keen to see abc2ly brought up to date. My
tests with it on a sample of s
