On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:11:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >From Irwin's standard - > > > 8.3. Accidental directives > > %%propagate-accidentals <not | octave | pitch> > > > > When set to not, accidentals apply only to the note > > they're attached to. When set to octave, accidentals > > also apply to all the notes of the same pitch in the > > same octave up to the end of the bar. When set to > > pitch, accidentals also apply to all the notes of the > > same pitch in all octaves up to the end of the bar. > > > > The default value is pitch. > > > > but as Richard Robinson points our elsewhere - > > >All these %%whatever usages are > >based on the point that the first character makes it a comment, and thus > >anything behind that will be ignored by any ABC application unless it takes > >the trouble specifically to look for it. > > If this one is ignored, it will affect the playback of tunes. It is a > necessary function but it should be part of the abc standard not part of the > stylesheet specification.
That's my point about trying to get organised "namespaces" for these things. We need a coherent way of organising all the "magic words" so that people, and software, can see what sort of things they apply to and when they can safely be ignored. (And I suppose some of those spaces should be in the standard, and others off somewhere quieter). -- 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
