Hello,
I think you are right with the rejection of the H notation, but at the
same time, you should be aware of a lot of anglizisms in abc notation
format. Before thinking about abc formatting as an universal standard
there are some hurdles to take :o) : As someone mentioned it is stil
derivated from stone age five-line/tewelve-key notation and its all
english in the moment.
I still disbelive in abc as an universal music language, I prefer it as
notation system for traditional music based on european classical
traditions.
And practically spoken there is no german speaking (or any other
language exept english) site to promote abc format, no text on abc in
the whole net exept english.
But following the line of things like H, do re mi, etc. isnt'n it the
advantage of computers to be able to translate between the differnt
languages in no time? Maybe we shold have more than one eye on
peripheral programms which interprete from language to language via abc
format? Why not having program versions of an abc programms which
includes all these things like an B/H/si substitution. The abc text
itself must not be tangented, but the usability would be more
international.
Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria
John Chambers wrote:
(...)
> There are some extensions that should be added to abc to make it
> handle some kinds of music that it can't handle well yet. But some
> notation we should simply refuse to support. Instead, we should try
> to make abc into a more consistent and universal notation. The
> difference isn't always obvious, of course, and it's worthwhile to
> discuss such things. The German "H" notation is probably a good
> example to put in the "rejected" list, with the comment that we have
> an opportunity to kill off what is really just bad notation (even
> within the tradition that developed it).
>
(...)
> (OTOH, it might be worthwhile to discuss similar situations where we
> want preprocessors to translate between ABC and other notations. If
> we can keep ABC's syntax sufficiently simple that such translators
> can be written easily, we will make ABC into a more useful universal
> notation. Various tablatures come to mind which, despite the constant
> problems with their narrow usability, are very practical to some
> musicians. If we can encourage such notations to be stored in ABC and
> generated "on the fly" by translators, we will go a long way toward
> bringing their users into the wider community.)
>
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