John Chambers wrote: >In Ryan's case, the p.37 examples do have a double bar before the >repeat colon - at the end of the preceding staff. This may have been >the origin of that perverse :|!: example that we saw recently. If the >! means "new staff", this would exactly match what Ryan did.
It's also what ABC2Win does. I was astonished to find that now it also works in BarFly when it's in its emulate ABC2Win mode. >In any case, it's pretty clear that publishers' notation and people's >interpretation of repeats are both far from standardized. No matter >what we do or say, people will type the abc that looks like their own >(mis)interpretation of any supposed standard. Printed music doesn't >much work as a guideline, because it is so varied, and people can say >"Look, these books do it that way, so it must be standard". > >People writing abc players have a problem ... Not really. Just treat any of :| |] [| || or |: as a start of repeat when playing. It just means that you can't use any of those symbols within a repeated section. The only one I would want to use is the double bar, and I've never yet seen a piece of music which did that (but thousands of tunes where the above rule works correctly). Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
