Yes, I do have a suggestion: if you really want to implement a 'generic
parser', start by choosing a standard to implement. If you want to
suggest changes to the standard, do so as an independent process.
Otherwise you'll end up with a parser that only parses non-standard abc...
having said that, I'd be happier with a parts directive that looks
similar to existing ones, like K: - something like
P:A label=Verse
That is more consistent with
K:C clef=bass
(sorry for the testiness - I'm impressed with the progress you're making)
wil
Remo D. wrote:
Neil Jennings wrote:
I still think my suggestion is more general, as it allows the
internal part name (one letter) to be totally independent of the
displayed text (Part description).
Remo's proposal would only allow one word (part name) to start with
each letter. Therefore if there was a part Coda, there could not be
any other part whose name started with C. (Using letters within a
word would get confusing)
Well, that's not what I meant. You can have Coda Chorus and
Chaos, then you would define in the header
P: (Chaos Chorus)2 Coda3
and in the body:
P:Chorus
P:Chaos
P:Coda
With my proposal you only miss the ability of having a piece named
CHAOS (each part name MUST begin with a upper case letter and may
continue ONLY with lowercase letters and numbers) but there's no limit
in the number of parts that begin with a given letter.
It seems to me that if you can give meaningful names to your parts,
you gain in clarity : P: (Chaos, Chorus)2 Coda3 gives the feeling
of two universal forces (the order being represented by a chorus) that
compete each other until the unifying End. Writing P:(AB)2C3 does
not gives the same feelings to me! But I digress :) .
Anyway, I'll implement also your proposal in my parser. If in the body
a P: partname; label field is found, the label will be considered
for printing too.
Any other suggestion?
Bye,
R.D
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