> "John" == John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> | On Tue 18 Dec 2001 at 01:00PM +, Erik Ronstr=F6m wrote:
John> | > Consider "standard" music notation:
John> | > My theory is that once upon a time, the repeat sign consisted of two
John> | > dots (:), and always
James Allwright writes:
| On Tue 18 Dec 2001 at 01:00PM +, Erik Ronstr=F6m wrote:
| > Consider "standard" music notation:
| > My theory is that once upon a time, the repeat sign consisted of two
| > dots (:), and always coincided with a bar line.=20
|
| An interesting theory, but I don't buy i
Why not use |: and :| for onbar-repeats and /: and :/ for inbar-repeats.
Surrounded with whitespace a parser could handle this as separate
tokens and it will not conflict with the A/2 syntax.
Also you can be explicith now if needed:
| /: abc abc | abc abc :/ | abc /: abc | abc :/ abc |
Ton
Even if this were true, there is plenty of music about with mid bar repeats
which we don't want to break.
The problem that I alluded to a while ago that I had with Muse (and for
which I know no good solution) is something like this
T: Rickett's Hornpipel, severely abridged
M:4/4
L:1/8
K:D
ABc |:
Jack asked whether anybody's software supported only one key signature per
tune.
Well I don't.
Muse has a general policy of trying to do something that is usually
acceptable and doing it automatically. This means that it will not please
people who want to make their printed page look exactly l
On Tue 18 Dec 2001 at 01:00PM +, Erik Ronström wrote:
> Consider "standard" music notation:
>
> My theory is that once upon a time, the repeat sign consisted of two
> dots (:), and always coincided with a bar line.
An interesting theory, but I don't buy it because your symbol is
symmetrica
> A more seious problem is the
> common practice of omitting initial bar lines even when it's not the
> start of a repeat. This is another case where we can't fight it, but
> we could put subtle (or unsubtle) social pressure to change.
What do you mean exactly by "inital bar line"? The bar li
Consider "standard" music notation:
My theory is that once upon a time, the repeat sign consisted of two
dots (:), and always coincided with a bar line. The bar line was then
made thicker or double to point out the ending of the part. Later, the
dots have come to be associated with the bar line s
