Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-25 Thread John Walsh
John Chambers writes: >The real problem we're facing is: A lot of people really want the >final backslash to mean "continue with the next line of the same >type". > [...] >This problem is fundamentally hopeless, because musical terminology >and understanding is so varied. Unles

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-24 Thread Barry Say
John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on 24 Aug 2003 > The real problem we're facing is: A lot of people really want the > final backslash to mean "continue with the next line of the same > type". But this discription is sufficiently ambiguous that we end up > with different implemen

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-24 Thread John Chambers
John Walsh writes: | > X:3 | > T:TTLS | > M:4/4 | > L:1/4 | > K:G | >GG dd |\ | > w:Twin-kle twin-kle | >eed2|\ | > w:lit-tle star | > ... | > and John Chambers replies: | > | > X:3 | > T:TTLS | > M:4/4 | > L:1/4 | > K:G | >GG dd | | > w:Twin-kle twin-k

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-24 Thread John Walsh
> > John Walsh writes: something or other > and John Chambers replies: > Well, I dunno; I think it would make a lot more sense if you wrote it > as: > > X:3 > T:TTLS > M:4/4 > L:1/4 > K:G >GG dd | > w:Twin-kle twin-kle \ >eed2| > w:lit-tle star \ > ... > > > Af

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-24 Thread John Chambers
John Walsh writes: | | For another example, consider | | X:3 | T:TTLS | M:4/4 | L:1/4 | K:G |GG dd |\ | W:Twin-kle twin-kle |eed2|\ | W:lit-tle star Well, I dunno; I think it would make a lot more sense if you wrote it as: X:3 T:TTLS M:4/4 L:1/4 K:G G

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-23 Thread John Walsh
I think Barry was diplomatically suggesting that the continuation rule proposed in the draft standard needs some re-thinking. The proposed solutions are considerably less readable than the original, so he may have a point. This kind of thing has to be done all the time, and should Just W

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-22 Thread Jack Campin
>Taking a section of canzonetta as a example and stripping >out the words to avoid confusion, I was wondering how I >would encode the following in accordance with 2.0 to avoid >any linebreaks. > >% 1 - 4 >[V: 1] |:z4 |z4 |f2ec |_ddcc| >[V: 2] |:c2BG|AAGc|(F/G/A/B/)c=A|B2AA

Re: [abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-21 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering how I would encode the following in > accordance with 2.0 to avoid any linebreaks. Simplest solution: precede the example with a line %%continueall 1 otherwise, you would have to do the following: [V: 1] |:z4 |z4 |f2ec |_d

[abcusers] ABC 2.0 avoiding line breaks

2003-08-21 Thread B . J . Say
Looking carefully through the ABC standard with a view to writing an application, I have been considering the interpretation of the terminal \. Taking a section of canzonetta as a exampleand stripping out the words to avoid confusion, I was wondering how I would encode the following in accorda