Michael Eskin’s two thousand and nineteen comments

These people are not the music friends you are looking for... more…

I could same the same thing about the word "contrast" as "impact"... more…

I'm curious about the distinction of the word "impact" in Aaron's post, definitely worth exploring... more…

I found the rendering to be a bit better than using the mandolintab.net online renderer, particularly if you start playing around with some of the more esoteric features of ABC such as using unicode symbols in the chord annotations. more…

After installing the ABC extension in Visual Studio Code, open an .abc file. more…

Thanks! Made some additions and corrections late in the day today, 1/22/21 so grab the latest when you get a chance. more…

Did you bring up the command palette and select the “Print” command? As afar as I can tell is there no Print command on the menus by default with VS Code. I found this confusing too. The developer explains this in detail in the extension description.... more…

I feel like we’re all just clinging to whatever lifeboats we can find or create to keep the music and the community connected until we’re past this chapter. There has been both great sorrow and also great joy and amazing innovation this past year. It... more…

Apparently the VS Code extension is open source, so might be a good starting point for IntelliJ. more…

By default, it shows the syntax highlighted ABC in one pane and the rendered ABC notation in a second. If you run the "Print" command from the command palette, it will generate an HTML page of the rendered version and launch it in your default browser, wh... more…