Phil Taylor writes: | Richard Robinson wrote: | | >> K:_B has no tonic, but a signature, which is _B. Maybe it's F or Dm. | > | >This last has the potential to be misunderstood, I think. The key | >signature would be | >K:Bb ? | > | >Easy to mis-type, or misunderstand. | | You will find sevral examples of this in the Village Music Project. | Which suggests, of course, that ABC2Win accepts it (horrors!).
Unless, of course, it accepts it as meaning a key signature of just the _B. In that case, it'll be ahead of the new standard. ;-) Actually, I've seen this sort of thing mostly on some mailing lists (such as irtrad-l) where it slowly becomes clear that there are a fair number of people who read and write abc directly, with no abc software getting in the way. It really is an way to pass tunes from one person to the next. And if your abc isn't standard, well, who cares? As long as the (human) reader can understand it, it has done the job. I'm of mixed mind about this. On the one hand, that's how abc started, and we have no real right to object. On the other hand, I've seen what happened to solfa notation ... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
