Re:Parallel Square Premusic

[Joseph Austin]

> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:53:45 +0100
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Carl Sorensen" <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Parallel Square Premusic
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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> <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> You want whitespace in your parallel squares?
>> 
> 
> 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

Have, 
And if you don't happen to have a card punch machine around,
you can get a similar columnar layout with a spreadsheet, such as Excel.
You can export that to .csv (comma-separated-value) text file format for 
post-processing by some other app
which you can write yourself or hire someone to develop for you.

Maybe you can even convert it to Lilypond format to make your notation relevant 
to this forum.

Joe Austin