I. Oppenheim writes: | I've now also updated the ties and slurs section of | http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html | to give PNG examples of nested slurs. | Please have a look to see if you can agree.
It's getting to look better and better. One thing I noticed missing: The repeat section doesn't mention the N-times-through notation like |:: ... ::| % Play this three times. |::: ... :::| % Play this four times. I've implemented this in jcabc2ps, and used it in a few tunes. I've found that, although musicians will say that they've never seen this, they invariably know exactly what it means. Of course, when a phrase is played three or more times, you usually do have different endings. This is why many people haven't seen this notation. But it can be very handy when you're just writing a basic version of a tune, and you note that one phrase really is played four times. Some time back we had a somewhat silly discussion of how to combine this with the notation for multiple bars of rest. Somehow, I don't think we need to bother with that in the next version of abc. But thosed who have some time on their hands could dig it out of the archives. I'll see if I can find anything else. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
