In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrik Norbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Bernard Hill wrote: >> [..] is the symbol for a chord, but I've seen +..+ also used > >+...+ for chords is obsolete long, long ago.
Great. But does that mean there's no music out there with +..+? > >> Change of time sig (etc) can be done with [M:3/4] in the middle of a >> line or M:3/4 on a line by itself. But I've seen music with M:3/4 >> without brackets in a mid-line. > >That's probably because of the infamous line-breaking daemon. >M:3/4 without brackets mid-line has never been supported by any >abc application as far as I know. > >> My biggest wail is the end-of-line. The standard says that the end of >> line is the end of music line (unless terminated with \ character). But >> many tunes have silly numbers of bars, on a line, like 10,9,1 on 3 >> consecutive lines. Clearly needing relayout but then when to relayout a >> line, when not? > >Also blame the infamous daemon! Much of the abc available on >the web has been sent through e-mail at some time. You just >have to have a user option for when to relayout line breaks. > Funny enough, that's what I've done. I've also given the user the code to edit (and optionally save) if s/he wants before the Import process. Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
