Steven K. Mariner wrote: >I'm having problems getting the variant ending feature to work for me. > >This works for 1 and 2 being different: > > "A"A,2A, B,2C |1"D"D3 z3 :||2 "D"D6 |]
Your program should have flagged :|| as an error - the correct symbol for a repeat bar is :| >But I can't seem to find a way to indicate 1-3 are the same with 4 being >different. I've tried encapsulating it in quotes, brackets, parentheses... > >Am I missing something, or is the ABC standard missing something? John Chambers has proposed a series of extensions to handle this, and I tried to implement them in my own program. It turned out to be a nightmare to get it working in the player. Eventually I got frustrated with it and pulled all the code. As far as I know, only John's abc2ps clone implements this, and no player programs. This is what the standard says: " First and second repeats ======================== First and second repeats can be generated with the symbols [1 and [2, e.g. faf gfe|[1 dfe dBA:|[2 d2e dcB|]. When adjacent to bar lines, these can be shortened to |1 and :|2, but with regard to spaces | [1 is legal, | 1 is not." No mention of more than two endings. As things stand at present the only way you can do it so it will be universally understood is to use the part-order syntax. Put this in the tune header: P:(AB)3AC then write the tune like this: [P:A] "A"A,2A, B,2C |[P:B]"D"D3 z3 ||[P:C] "D"D6 |] Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
