I had hoped that we could make progress on some of the things which are already implemented here and there (and in fact the implementations are not totally incompatible). >From memory (if any of these are in actually the standard then forgive me) w: to specify words v: to specify voices Some way to specify clefs (implementations use k: and v:)
There are of course plenty of other things to do and to argue about. This is not the Voice Of The Committee, just me. Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: James Allwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [abcusers] dynamics (was) On Wed 31 Oct 2001 at 05:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There seems to be some confusion here. Has the standards committee decided > anything or not? Could we have a clear statement from the committee (rather > than individual members) on what it has achieved and its current status? > I don't think you'll ever get the standards committee to speak as one person with a unified voice. My opinion is similar to Phil's. I took the approach of identifying all the new features in the new draft standard and seeing which ones were universally approved and which ones were not. This seemed like a good way to make progress, and I got the impression that disagreement was restricted to relatively minor features and obscure options of major features. However, the thread petered out without any definite conclusions; people were either not interested in this approach or distracted by other projects. It is still possible for someone who cares about an abc standard to help the process along; get hold of every abc program you can, go through them carefully and then document the compatibilities and incompatibilities carefully on the web. If you do this carefully and comprehensively enough it be a valuable resource to guide any new abc developer on interpreting the more subtle aspects of abc. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
