>This is the wrong way to look at it. abc2win is barely being >maintained, but tunes created with its aid are the largest single >corpus on the web. It's the tunes you need to care about, not >the software.
ok, I guess that *almost* all of those tunes are from folk tradition. Do you honestly think we can live with or without those line breaks ? Since this fashion was introduced by abc2win (I started learning and discovering abc with it and I'm grateful to this software) and abc2win doesn't support multivoice and advanced features, I strongly doubt it will be very annoying if the future softwares "miss" this feature. So far I haven't found that many tunes with ! for line break (yes, I collect them all). Btw the first one I found is this one (it's just an example, and contrary to what I said it's not folk music) : X: 3 T:Foots Minuet. BC.03 M:3/4 L:1/4 R:Minuet O:England A:x N:There was a Samuel Foote,1720-1777, wit,playwright,and actor,just like N:in Blackadder! Z:vmp.John Bagnall K:D a f a | g2 f | e d e | f/e/f/g/f/g/ | a f a | "tr"g2 f | e d e | f3 :|!: f f f |e/d/e/f/ e | g g g | f/e/f/g/ f | a/g/f/g/a/b/ | "tr"g2 f | d/e/ f e | d3 |] (from village music...) I processed it in abc2win (yes I still have it :) ) to see the difference with it and without it. I don't think it's showing too much disrespect for the transcriver to "forget" this line break : probably 90% of line break are for showing a new part (can be done with P: instead). In case of classical / baroque etc. partition, it can be usefull, it's less the case in trad. folk music. It's not vital. Can someone find a counter example ? >There are very few existing files using the abcm2ps !...! construct >compared with the number that use ! as a terminator. >From the demonstration we got recently, the !code! and ! will always be incompatible. I don't find !code! so great to enter, but it can be usefull, much more usefull than this kind of line break. I think the tunes using !...! notation provide more "informations" in themself with those !...! than the line break to emphasize a new part. If some programmers can be smart enought to include in their software an option (checkbox to emulate the old abc2win option :) )to support this "!" line break, why not. But it shouldn't be the only option to write it. I remember the * symbol was ought to mean justification. I found few applications that support it. Why not consider this one as a new line break notation ? I don't think it's used somewhere else. !br! could also be used :) >Better to let >abcm2ps have & for whatever it wants to do with a new character, >since source readability doesn't seem to be an issue for people who >use it. hmm, that's your opinion... I personally do type all my abc by hand... but I can say on the other hand I don't mind rediscuss the !...! to an other kind of notation. +...+ wouldn't annoy me for example, or even a complete way to symbolise this. Why not the macros the way Barfly implement them ?, if it's possible to use them for such notation, and if it doesn't give a unreadable result as the U: does (I still prefer a !...! notation than some I J etc. mixing with notes written with letters). I've managed to install a mac emulator and I tried BarFly yesterday. I'll try that macro thing, to see how it can be used. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
