RE: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-30 Thread have
ssage - Subject: Re: Parallel Square Premusic From: "Michael Gerdau" Date: 3/22/17 4:42 pm To: have@anti.capital > In what file format, with what program, should I write this description? > Is there something you can link me to to emulate? You would write that as a simple text

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-23 Thread caagr98
Isn't that basically a music box? On 03/23/17 12:04, msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, David Kastrup wrote: Punch cards seem to the best medium for your format. Not just that they are rigidly column-based, but you'll also easily distinguish letters With careful programming

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-23 Thread mskala
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, David Kastrup wrote: > Punch cards seem to the best medium for your format. Not just that they > are rigidly column-based, but you'll also easily distinguish letters With careful programming you can probably get the card punch to serve as a musical instrument, too. -- Matth

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-23 Thread bart deruyter
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Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-23 Thread David Kastrup
writes: > You want whitespace in your parallel squares? > > Don't you think that's akin to demanding a hexadecimal file include > space in between each digit? Wouldn't it be smarter to delegate the > spacing task to programs optimized for a square environment, as hex > editors are optimized for

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 3/22/17 5:39 PM, "have@anti.capital" wrote: >You want whitespace in your parallel squares? > >Don't you think that's akin to demanding a hexadecimal file include space >in between each digit? Wouldn't it be smarter to delegate the spacing >task to programs optimized for a square environment

RE: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread have
k it. "Semantics" isn't enough. - Original Message ----- Subject: Re: Parallel Square Premusic From: "Carl Sorensen" Date: 3/22/17 6:43 pm To: "have@anti.capital" , "Ralph Palmer" Cc: "lilypond-user@gnu.org" On 3/22/17 10:57

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Carl Sorensen
is being done. Your plaintext format provides no visual cues to the semantic markup, in my opinion. Perhaps the world will judge Parallel Square Premusic to be the best possible text encoding of music. But even if it does, I will not be using Parallel Square Premusic. I prefer LilyPond "Pre

Re: Fwd: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread David Wright
ntimidated by my format and bold clams that > he felt the need to censor the name of my format in his subject line. Censor? I missed that. > As I've said before, I do not claim to have the most quickly readable format > for music - that would be sheet music - but I have invented a smar

Re: Fwd: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Shane Brandes
To bold clams clamming up! I really don't see the relevance to our concern here. Let us give him a rest or a few for good measure. regards, Shane On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Michael Gerdau wrote: > Hi Vac, list! > > What's hard to follow? Please, critique my format verbosely. When you see

Re: Fwd: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Michael Gerdau
Hi Vac, list! > What's hard to follow? Please, critique my format verbosely. When you see > > []rh --dadada||daaa||--dadada||daaa I immediately have several different ideas as to how that could mean something. Most of your examples I find difficult to understand, mostly because I have

Re: Fwd: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.03.2017 um 18:57 schrieb have@anti.capital: If not, I'll continue to hold my throne as the creator of the perfect plaintext premusic until a worthy challenger approaches. Sorry if I gave you the impression I was leaving. You may certainly proclaim yourself king, but without anybody ackn

Re: Fwd: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread David Kastrup
writes: > Also, I'm flattered Malta was so intimidated by my format and bold > clams that he felt the need to censor the name of my format in his > subject line. Malta: 1 point. Let's call it quits before the bold mollusks are given their marching orders. -- David Kastrup ___

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Joseph Austin
> > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:57:27 -0700 > From: > To: "Ralph Palmer" > Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: RE: Fwd: Re: Parallel Square Premusic > Message-ID: > > <20170322105727.561b4d246cb2aeff93d20930d3b89171.6b18bc0957.mail...@email04.go

RE: Fwd: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread have
the most quickly readable format for music - that would be sheet music - but I have invented a smarter way than all that exists to encode into a computer the information that sheet music contains. I look forward to the existence of programs to render Parallel Square Premusic in r

The End. [Was: Parallel Square Premusic]

2017-03-22 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 22.03.2017 um 11:07 schrieb Urs Liska: > Indeed, I think those last remarks of the OP seem to be bringing this > discussion to an end. Otherwise we might end up engaging in something > like the infamous "maclaren" episode ... I think we can agree on this. One good thing happened in this thre

Fwd: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Ralph Palmer
My apologies - Once again, I forgot to Reply-to-all. Ralph -- Forwarded message -- From: Ralph Palmer Date: Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:34 AM Subject: Re: Re: Parallel Square Premusic To: have@anti.capital On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 9:10 PM, wrote: > You're very wrong

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 22.03.2017 um 10:58 schrieb David Kastrup: > writes: > >> You're very wrong. I have considered all of those things. > [...] > >> The framework is solid, and like it or not, this will proceed to >> become the plaintext music format. > I don't see how "this will proceed to become the plaintext

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 22.03.2017 um 02:10 schrieb have@anti.capital: like it or not, this will proceed to become /the/ plaintext music format. You should reconsider your marketing strategy if you so want to make that happen… ;-) Especially you’re unlikely to make friends in the LilyPond community. Best, Simon

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-22 Thread David Kastrup
writes: > You're very wrong. I have considered all of those things. [...] > The framework is solid, and like it or not, this will proceed to > become the plaintext music format. I don't see how "this will proceed to become the plaintext music format" when it is adopted by a single person becau

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-21 Thread Malte Meyn
Please always reply to the messages you are actually quoting/referring to so mail clients and archives put the mails in the thread in correct order. Am 22.03.2017 um 02:10 schrieb have@anti.capital: > I'm not sure how the octave of a pitch is ambiguous?? Scientific pitch > notation is pretty well

RE: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-21 Thread have
ers and it is used for structuring text. Nevertheless it has not become the bees' knees of documentation writing, it is just one semipopular way of doing things. There are numerous forms of piano roll notation that are a lot better candidates for playing material than your pro

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-21 Thread Joseph Austin
> > 1. Parallel Square Premusic (have@anti.capital) > > -- > > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:11:42 -0700 > From: > To: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Subject: Parallel S

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-20 Thread Malte Meyn
Am 20.03.2017 um 02:11 schrieb have@anti.capital: > I have invented an extremely robust and perfectly extensible plaintext file > format called Parallel Squares. This sounds very promising, let’s do a partial fact check. > premusic (I use this word to describe instructions for how to play music,

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I'm very certain that Parallel Squares will revolutionize the field >> of music notation. There simply has never been anything like it. > > But there have been statements like that for every discipline of > science and arts a billion times over. It's almost a telltale sign > where they lead

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-20 Thread David Kastrup
writes: > I'm very certain that Parallel Squares will revolutionize the field of > music notation. There simply has never been anything like it. But there have been statements like that for every discipline of science and arts a billion times over. It's almost a telltale sign where they lead wh

RE: Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-20 Thread have
ere simply has never been anything like it. Viral Anticapital http://anti.capital - Original Message ----- Subject: Re: Parallel Square Premusic From: "Andrew Bernard" Date: 3/20/17 9:34 am To: "lilypond-user Mailinglist" Hello Vac, Welcome to the lily

Re: Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-20 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hello Vac, Welcome to the lilypond community. What are you asking us? Andrew ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Parallel Square Premusic

2017-03-20 Thread have
Hello guys, I am Vac. I have invented an extremely robust and perfectly extensible plaintext file format called Parallel Squares. The prototypical use of this format is to encode premusic (I use this word to describe instructions for how to play music, as opposed to any audio recording - thu