On 4 Oct 2003, John Chambers wrote:
> I'd guess that this is fairly common. It's likely that some abc tools > that handle w: lines now do align syllables with rests, but nobody > has ever noticed. > > If this is true, then making this the official behavior would hardly > break anything. And those songs would already be semi-broken, because > there hasn't been an official standard for this and different tools > probably do handle it differently right now. > I dont believe that ABC 2.0 represents a widely accepted standard yet, rather I think that the list just got tired of the discussion This is exactly the sort of situation for which I suggested an extension to the I: field in my proposed extensions to ABC. (www.nspipes.co.uk/barry/abc2proposal.html.) I: _switch align lyrics to rests or I:SWITCH align lyrics to rests or I:SWITCH align_lyrics_to_rests (The above three forms are alternatives) The converse would be I:SWITCH no_lyrics_on_rests I would prefer to see the new standard allowing lyrics on rests (but not barlines) and allowing the above switch for the rare occasions when old files need to be interpreted. I agree with the correspondent who would rather not introduce gratuitous percussion notation. Barry Say To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
