Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.tech:15706 comp.text.sgml:130 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.text.sgml,rec.music Subject: Re: a new music standard Message-ID: <1990Nov3.085354.22930@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 3 Nov 90 08:53:54 GMT References: <90304.092652ST00482@auvm.auvm.edu> <1990Oct31.182940.17900@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1990Oct31.234121.7792@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 48 Aaaargh! Sorry about this; I gave a wrong newsgroup name and my news posting software bought off on it. The group is comp.text.sgml, not comp.std.sgml. Mea culpa. ^^^^ xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill) writes: >[...] >> Now over in rec.music they are talking about a standard based on SDML >> (Standard ???? Markup Language). This would represent scores only >> (from what I can gather from following threads), there would need to >> be an extension for instruments if we wanted to encapsulate all parts >> necessary to play a song. >Probably that's SGML, Standard Generalized Markup Language, a >meta-standard for describing standards for capturing the structure of >complex documents (a music score certainly qualifies); there is a new >newsgroup comp.std.sgml; its a shame none of the rec.music discussion ^^^text >has been cross-posted there; the sgml experts live in comp.std.sgml. ^^^text >This one is cross-posted; at least the groups will be aware of one >another now. Please correct the newsgroup line in followups. >> Are there any good books out there on the "mechanics" of music. >I forget the exact title, but there is a refereed journal of computers >and music that is at least a couple of years old where this stuff is >discussed in enough detail to get a hacker salivating. >> adam hill >> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu Sorry about that; cancelling the original, not that it will help much at this late hour. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, ongoing comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.