Richard L Walker remarked:
| Hmm, maybe actually defining the scale (as below) within an abc file
| wouldn't be such a hot idea after all.
Yeah. There have been a few suggestions that we have a way of
defining modes. It's not really very difficult to come up with
schemes to do this. The problem is that the schemes come out somewhat
on the complex side, and it's always obvious that your typical
musician wouldn't have a chance of ever using it right, or even
remembering the scheme. Most musicians can't even give you an
accurate definition of a major scale.
Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that we shouldn't discuss
the idea. There are already some features within abc that are only
used by a minority of musicians. If something useful can be ignored
by people who don't need it, then it's not necessarily a problem. The
only real problem with "obscure" featues is the question of how many
programmers will be bothered to implement them. We've seen this with
the "global accidentals" idea, which was in the 1.6 standard and was
apparently hardly implemented at all.
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