Laurie wrote: >I would like to propose the following. [suggestions I have hardly any problems with, except...]
>Q:C2=120 -- as before Do we really need this? Did it ever catch on? (I think you suggest deprecating it, I reckon something more drastic might be in order). >Q:120=Allegro -- the popular example. Same idea Nothing else in ABC uses postfix definition, and it's pretty strange for most people to figure out and perhaps even stranger if you consider an audience of programmers instead of people... I guess you're doing it this way for easy parsing where the term might have spaces? I think I'd leave the = sign out if it's going to be in this order, or use "=:" or *something* to indicate that I'm not really trying to redefine the number 120. Your suggestions have exactly the expressive power I was asking for, with one minor omission: the label <dotted minim> = <minim> you get in staff notation when the metre changes. There seems to be nothing in your proposals that could trigger the printing of such a thing in the staff notation, even though the semantic effect is there. Can you see a way to fix this? >Q:Allegro WITHOUT any previous setting of the beat has to be deprecated >because it is as peculiar as the old Q:120 was We could be a bit more relaxed about this - a program that only needs to print could accept it. Anybody who put a tune like that on the web could then officially be told they'd be fielding emails saying "what metronome speed did you have in mind?" till hell freezes over, though... But basically I like this set of proposals and could live with it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ food intolerance data & recipes, freeware Mac logic fonts, and Scottish music To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
