Wil Macaulay writes:
>
>>--- Due to popular demand, +...+ is now the preferred
>>syntax for notating decorations; !...! has been
>>deprecated, although it is still allowed.
>>
>
>I thought *....* was proposed? although deprecated, +....+ is still
around
>as an alternate to [...] for chords.
>
In addition, +..+ looks ugly, to me, at least. Looked ugly for
chords, still looks ugly for decorations. Oh well. But this raises
another question: shouldn't the standard mention obsolete notation to
alert future developers to stuff which might be expected to show up in old
abc files? (It's not a very long list: +..+ for chords, s..s for slurs,
and [1, [2 for repeats come to mind. **, *, + and/or !---depending on what
is finally decided---are other cases in point. There are probably a
couple more, but not many.) Abc2mtex has some flags: oldchords, oldslurs,
which allow it to process these; I don't know if other programs handle
them at all. Should they?
Cheers,
John Walsh
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