On Tue, 28 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > James Allwright wrote: > > >The inconsistency is deliberate. The point is that when you play > >a hornpipe or anything else with dotted rhythm (or swing, or > >whatever you want to call it), keeping a 3:1 ratio is rather > >harder than keeping a 2:1 ratio and doesn't really add much > >musically apart from a certain pedantic pleasure in knowing that > >you are playing exactly what your notation says. This is why > >abc2midi makes the assumption that a>b is meant to be played as > >a 2:1 ratio. I think this is in accordance with the original > >spirit of '>' even if this is not spelt out in the standard. > > It sounds like you're saying that ">" cannot be used to notate the > first notes of "Mari's Wedding" to play as I've always heard it > played. This would be unacceptable.
Or any strathspey ? Have I understood this right, abc2midi does this in all cases ? That can't be right. But, it can be used to *notate* it, sure. Just, abc2midi won't playback right unless that's what you happen to want. yaps, using the same parser, will _display_ it fine. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
