Someone incorrectly writes:
: James is adamant that abc2midi won't play a repeat unless there's
: a balanced begin/end.
Damn! Take a day off work and someone decides to put nonsense words
in your mouth! Just for the record, abc2midi does have code in there
to guess the start of repeats
I beg to differ. (Incidentally Scarce Of Tatties is a jig that I rather
like - it's in Sue Songer's Portland Collection).
Version 1 - stripped to the bone
X:1
K:A Mix
Aee efg|edB A3:|
aea a2e |edB A3:|
is incorrect ABC but can be fixed up by guessing (YES, GUESSING!!) where the
two repeats are
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, James Allwright wrote:
My point is that missing out a start repeat is bad notation; an
anacrusis at the start of a piece generates ambiguity and I think you
will be hard pressed to find a music textbook that legitimizes the
process of missing off start repeats.
From The
John wrote:
| On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, James Allwright wrote:
|
| My point is that missing out a start repeat is bad notation; an
| anacrusis at the start of a piece generates ambiguity and I think you
| will be hard pressed to find a music textbook that legitimizes the
| process of missing off
John Chambers said -
As I've noted before, we have a population of users who
can't even be bothered to type "X:1" at the start of their tunes.
I've heard it said that if a door is clearly marked PULL but everyone who comes to it tries to PUSH, it is not because they are all stupid; it is
Ah. I do apologise for maligning your software!
L.
- Original Message -
From: Phil Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re: Initial repeats
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
(I think there was (and may still be) a
repeat signs are bars,
I don't think so. At a quick glance, seven out of the first twelve
tunes in the Northumbrian Piper's Tune Book have repeat symbols that
don't coincide with bars.
Okay, I guess both I and the 1.6 standard are wrong on that.
For instance, I want to be able to do this
