On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, John Walsh wrote: > As I remember, the real problems with the > continuation---apart from the incompatibility of 1.6 > and 2.0---come when there was a mixed bag: several > staves, lyrics, etc.
The bottom line of that discussion was, that continuations are of not much use in complex scores: in scores with multiple voices, it is not feasible to spell out the complete line formatting in the ABC file; instead the software should take care of it. To explicitly force the software to introduce a line break at some places, ABC 2.0 adopted the !-character. In general, the ABC 1.6 continuation mechanism was found to be overly complex, so ABC 2.0 replaced it with a more straightforward and simple mechanism. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* ABC Standard: http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard/ Chazzanut Online: http://www.chazzanut.com/ Synagogue Choir: http://www.ask-choir.org/ Business: http://www.amsterdamhotelspecials.com/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
