John Chambers wrote:
Geoff Loker wrote: | I have a song that has one ending to it for the first two verses, and a | different | ending for the last two verses. What I would like to do is something | akin to | this: | | [1,2 D>E D4 C2 ||[3,4 D>E F2 z2 z2 || | | in a similar fashion to the first and second repeat notation, but with | the first | ending being labeled "1,2" to indicate that it is used the first two | times through, | and the second ending being labeled "3,4". Unfortunately, this doesn't | appear to | be kosher ABC. Any suggestions as to how to do this?
Actually, this was decreed kosher by popular demand several years ago, and it has been implemented by a number of abc tools (but not all of them). You can use hyphens, too, to write something like
| ... [1-3 D>E D4 C2 :|[4 D>E F2 z2 z2 ||
Maybe we could get a poll of which abc tools implement this?
My abc2ps clone (jcabc2ps) implements it. I also implemented general text for endings, but to avoid ambiguity, quotes are required:
| ... [1-3 D>E D4 C2 :|["last time" D>E F2 z2 z2 |]
There wasn't as general agreement on this, but I've found it useful in a few cases. The parse code that I wrote allows the quotes and the [ to be omitted if the repeat text consists solely of digits, commas and hyphens.
It is common for printers to put periods after the number in this repeat text, but I found that that produced a difficult parsing ambiguity with the dot commonly used for staccatto, so I didn't do that. (You can use the full ["..." notation if you really want that final dot.)
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