Tune Req: help with ABC

Subject: Tune Req: help with ABC
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:24 AM

Could anyone help me with this tune I've posted it to the concertina.net tune converter and received a reply saying it could 'nt convert because of an ABC error as i'm not familiar with ABC i do'nt know what the error is and so i can't correct it myself




PUMPKIN CREEK. American, March (?) (2/4 time). D Major. Standard. AABB. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1965/1981; pg. 46.

X:1

T:Pumpkin Creek

M:2/4

L:1/8

R:March

Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion

K:D

(3A/B/c/ | dd df/e/ | dB BA | ee ed/e/ | f/e/d ea | dd df/e/ | dB BA | d/e/f/d/ BA | zc d :|

|: z | af fd | e/f/g/f/ ef/g/ | af Bg | f2 ef/g/ | af fd | e/f/g/f/ ef/g/ | af Bg | e2d :|   

Thanks in advance

Gerry

Subject: RE: Tune Req: help with ABC
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:49 AM

The tune looks fine, it prints in abcm2ps and I've just converted it with the concertina.net converter without problem. However, your post above has extra blank lines between the abc lines. If they were in your submission that would probably cause an error - a blank line terminated an abc tune.

Mick

Subject: RE: Tune Req: help with ABC
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 06:51 AM

I've just tried the converter with blank lines inserted and it does give you and error. So, just make sure there are no blank lines before the end of the tune.

Mick

Subject: RE: Tune Req: help with ABC
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 11:55 AM

Thanks for repling Mick but I must be having a braindead day as I do'nt understand what you mean about the blank lines

Gerry

Subject: RE: Tune Req: help with ABC
From: nutty
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 12:00 PM

The tune is double spaced eg. there is a large spacebetween each line.
The tune in normal single spacing should look like this.

PUMPKIN CREEK. American, March (?) (2/4 time). D Major. Standard. AABB. Sweet (Fifer's Delight), 1965/1981; pg. 46.
X:1
T:Pumpkin Creek
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:March
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:D
(3A/B/c/ | dd df/e/ | dB BA | ee ed/e/ | f/e/d ea | dd df/e/ | dB BA | d/e/f/d/ BA | zc d :|
|: z | af fd | e/f/g/f/ ef/g/ | af Bg | f2 ef/g/ | af fd | e/f/g/f/ ef/g/ | af Bg | e2d :|

Subject: RE: Tune Req: help with ABC
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 12:13 PM

Bloomin' Heck Nutty that was quick it's obvious you are'nt having a braindead day i still do'nt understand it but whatever you did certainly worked thanks again to you both for your help

Gerry

Subject: RE: Tune Req: help with ABC
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 06:13 AM

The penny finally dropped it must be a glitch with Fiddler's Ccompanion my way to get round it was to copy &paste into Word then re-copy & paste into concertina.net

Gerry

Subject: RE: Tune Req: help with ABC
From: pavane
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 08:05 AM

Different operating systems recognise new lines in different ways.

Some use the CR (carriage return) character (ASCII decimal code 13, I think), some use the LF (Line Feed) character (ASCII decimal code 10) and some, like Windows, use the CR+LF combination, two characters

If you feed a CRLF combination to a system expecting just one character, you will get TWO new lines, resulting in a blank line.

Hope that clarifies it!