Re: What can Premusic do that others can't?

[David Wright]

On Tue 21 Mar 2017 at 09:21:43 (-0700), address@hidden wrote:
>  I think that I should append a disclaimer to my format: I don't intend it to 
> be more comfortably sight-read than sheet music is and will be. I simply 
> intend to create an analogue of .txt where there is only .docx and .odt. It 
> is perfectly legible for simple pieces, and perhaps an environment like 
> Frescobaldi could be configured to real-time display Premusic code as its 
> appropriate sheet music for more complex pieces - that environment would make 
> my format into a very formidable one indeed.
>  
> Johan, mine's got less shortcomings though.
>  
> Irrational note lengths could be achieved with another square character.
>  
> Here is a four-beat measure with a pi note followed by rest.
>  
>                       a* = pi minus three
> 
> []rh daaaaaa*||
>  
>  
>  
> And with that, I extended my format to meet the challenge. Does anyone else 
> have any irrational ABC or Guido code? Chopin? If not, I still have the best 
> format. QED.

No, no, mine's the longest! Look:

     antidisestablishmentarianismIST

> --------- Earlier Message ---------
> Subject: Re: What can Premusic do that others can't?
> Date: 3/21/17 5:26 am
> To: address@hidden
> 
> Am 20.03.2017 um 22:48 schrieb address@hidden:
>  
>  > I have invented the perfect plaintext file format for premusic.

Oh, sorry; wrong mailing list.

Cheers,
David.