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Re: Parallel Square Premusic


From: bart deruyter
Subject: Re: Parallel Square Premusic
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:42:39 +0100

Hi all, 

has nobody here visited his website? I took the risk :-).
it will save a lot of typing-time.

grtz,
Bart


2017-03-23 9:53 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
<address@hidden> 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 a hexadecimal environment, yet leave the
> output file alone? You're essentially asking me to multiply the
> filesize by 3/2 so that you can entertain this notion that G5G5G5 is
> somehow more difficult to register as a series of letter note names
> followed by their octave number in scientific pitch than is G5 G5
> G5. There will never be a letter in the second column or a number in
> the first. Why is this so complicated?

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
from digits by the former having additional holes in a separate area
punched as opposed to the latter: no need to rely on vague visual cues
for telling "S" from "5".  And you can even pick differently colored
cards for pitches and rhythms as an additional help to the executioner,
and preprint cards with grids making it trivial to see the square letter
boundaries.

--
David Kastrup

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