----- Original Message ----- From: "John Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:22 AM Subject: Re: [abcusers] multivoice & linecontinuation
> Arent Storm writes: > | > Someone else wrote: > | > > I used to use it and stopped because I always let the software > | > > determine the line breaks for me. But if I were still expecting to > | > > determine my own line breaks, I might still be doing it that way. > | > > | > It was the original syntax, wasn't it ? It worked before the "inline > | > field" [M:...] syntax was introduced, so there may be a lot of older > | > tunes out there that have it. > > | There *may* be, but are there? > | I haven't seen any... > > It's hard to find. I searched around through my collection, > including a lot of abc taken from assorted mailing lists, > and I had trouble finding more that a handful of files with > M: or K: inside the music, either in the clumsy old form or > bracketed. > > Even in classical music, such changes aren't common. It's > much more common to just keep the same meter or key, and > draw bar lines or accidentals as you need them. People seem > to dislike changing such settings unless the change is for > a big chunk of the music. > > So we're talking about what is a somewhat rare usage. Not > much abc will have to change if we change the software's > behavior for continuation lines in this case. > > Of course, if you're one of the very few people who do this > sort of thing a lot, you might be a bit annoyed ... I was guessing so too, especially where most abc-tunes seem to be rather simple & short (as by nature & history of abc) Thanks for searching Arent To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
