Fiddle, guitar, mandolin, ukulele, bass, composer
To Have and to Hold - CD with 9 musicians playing original tunes.
Paul Gitlitz
Saskatoon,
New York,
That's great, Paul! Thank you for your contact with him.
You can use brackets in the abc's themselves or anywhere there's a narrative. However, the title line on the template only accepts parentheses. If you try to enter a tune on that line "Blacksmith [The]" it will not save the page, but if you enter "Blacksmith (The)" it will save. This is independent of what you put in the abc's-- for example, you can have a T:Blacksmith [2], The and it won't effect anything. I do that all the time. I'm just talking about the first Title bar in the template. BTW I removed The Blacksmith until the composer can give permission.
Another quirk of the wiki format is that the "Title:" line does not accept brackets "[ ]". To indicate a tune with the same name that is different from the others you need to use parentheses "( )", as in "Blacksmith (5) (The)". If you use the brackets the wiki program will not allow you to save a new title.
Hi Paul, if I can mention a few more conventions for entries-- The naming convention for tune titles is to put all articles in parentheses at the end. For example, your tune "The Wind Blew High" was changed to "Wind Blew High (The)". Since the index is alphabetical, we would have huge files starting with 'A', 'An', 'The' etc., otherwise. This is just for the "Title:" line when you first enter a tune in the template. Similarly, we omit commas in titles on that line, so your title "Blacksmith, The" was changed to "Blacksmith (The)." The commas also confound the alphabetical listings.
Not bad. "Sally in the Garden" is spot on!
"Jeff Sturgeon" - Leaving the rest of the coding intact, you need to insert your abc's right after the
in this format. <section begin= X1> <section end= X1> With your abc's in the middle. Open up "Jeff Sturgeon" with the "edit" and you can see how they should be arranged.
sorry about that, the program automatically generated the notation from the coding. Disregard the last message. I'll send a new one.
"Jeff Sturgeon" - you're getting there Paul. I corrected it a bit. Here's what you needed to have inserted right after the
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Leave the other coding intact, and just insert, as above.
Paul, do you know if Alan Kaufman gives permission to post his composition on the TTA? We honor copyrights, and would gladly post new tunes, but only with the composer's permission.
