Muse uses ; to include fingering hints in ABC.
i.e. a3;4 means play the a on the 4th string (probably
at the 12th fret for guitar).
But who cares about guitars?
L.
----- Original Message -----
From: John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] abc compliant software
Phil Taylor writes:
| Laurie wrote:
|
| >For consistency, terminate all the fields in the header with ! Line ends
| >are then logically optional, but omitting them should be deprecated (on
the
| >grounds of readability for humans).
|
| It would have been nice to have something like this from the start, but
| introducing it now would pose all kinds of compatibility nproblems.
Probably true. But there might be a better choice. As far as I know,
the semicolon isn't yet used at all in abc, and this is the
conventional separator char in all sorts of programming languages. Is
there any reason we shouldn't adopt ';' as the terminator for header
lines and music staffs? It should be pretty easy to implement.
Lots of programming languages have a basic syntax of "one line is one
command", but then allow semicolons to put several commands on one
line, and backslashes to put one command on several lines. There
doesn't seem to be any obvious reason we couldn't extend abc to work
the same way, and it wouldn't break any existing abc.
Looking farther ahead, maybe we could persuade developers to slyly
start sneaking semicolons into the abc whenever tunes are written or
copied, and then after a while almost all the existing abc would have
been silently converted. Then we could decree the newline an ignored
char and we'd be free of the line-wrap problems.
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