On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:47:27PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: > John Chambers wrote: > > > >that it would be nice if a transcriber could write > >something like: > > > >K:?Adorian > > > >This would mean that the transcriber is guessing the key. > >The software would just ignore the '?', of course, and give > >^f as the signature. But it would warn interested readers > >(humand and software) that the transcriber had some doubt > >about the accuracy of the key. > > > >Implementing this would be easy for most abc software: Just > >ignore the '?'. > > Unnecessary. You can already write: > > K: Adorian %? > > but nobody does. People who get the mode wrong are mostly > not aware of their errors, and don't question their mode decisions > as long as it gets the right key signature.
True. But what about us pedants who aren't sure they've got it right ? <grin> -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
