[Callers] Re: New dance for your consideration

2022-10-18 Thread Tony Parkes via Contra Callers
Hi, Seth and all... Two points: 1. I'm aware that a lot of folks use "long lines" as shorthand for "long lines forward and back." It bugs me, but that's probably just my age and eccentricity. But I humbly submit that in a 4x4, where there are fewer conventions - things taken for granted - than

[Callers] "long lines forward+back" in 4-face-4

2022-10-18 Thread Michael Dyck via Contra Callers
On 2022-10-18 9:02 a.m., Tony Parkes via Contra Callers wrote: ... “long lines forward and back” ... is so unusual in 4x4s (in fact, I don’t think I’ve encountered it before) In The Caller's Box, searching for Formation = "Four Facing Four" and Figures match "long lines", I get 10 hits: https:

[Callers] Re: New dance for your consideration

2022-10-18 Thread Joe Harrington via Contra Callers
Short lines forward and back! :-) —jh— On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 9:02 AM Tony Parkes via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Hi, Seth and all… Two points: > > > > 1. I’m aware that a lot of folks use “long lines” as shorthand for “long > lines forward and back.” It bug

[Callers] Re: "long lines forward+back" in 4-face-4

2022-10-18 Thread Michael Dyck via Contra Callers
On 2022-10-18 9:26 a.m., Michael Dyck wrote: In The Caller's Box, searching for Formation = "Four Facing Four" and Figures match "long lines", I get 10 hits: https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/?formation=Four+Facing+Four&pos_lines=long+lines Whoops, that should be: https://www.i

[Callers] Re: New dance for your consideration

2022-10-18 Thread Jim McKinney via Contra Callers
Lines of four, forward and back. JimOn Oct 18, 2022, at 9:39 AM, Joe Harrington via Contra Callers wrote:Short lines forward and back! :-)—jh—On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 9:02 AM Tony Parkes via Contra Callers wrote: Hi, Seth and all… Two points:   1. I’m

[Callers] Re: New dance for your consideration

2022-10-18 Thread JJ via Contra Callers
I've always used "lines of four go forward and back" for most 4x4 dances. On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 09:02 Tony Parkes via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Hi, Seth and all… Two points: > > > > 1. I’m aware that a lot of folks use “long lines” as shorthand for “long > li