Bob wrote:
| At 12:10 PM 02-01-01 +0100, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
| >$ Starting a new part (P:) or giving a subtitle (T:) silently imply
| >$ switching to the first voice.
|
| Is the automatic switching to the first voice desirable / necessary? It
| seems to me it would be confusing, particularly if someone had notated some
| multi voice music without part indications and then tried adding them later.
This strikes me as not a good idea at all. It is based on the
assumption that transcribers will always want to intermingle voices
in the abc. But we've already had some software that requires writing
each part as a separate block of code, and in some situations, this
is a very reasonable way to write it. This would give abc of the
form:
V:1
P:A
(music)
P:B
(music)
V:2
P:A
(music)
P:B
(music)
With the above rule, the result of this would be totally incorrect,
and probably baffling to the user. It would result in the notes for
V:1 being shown for both voices. The only fix would be a total reorg
of the music. This would effectively outlaw music in the above form.
I'd think it would be better if V: and P: didn't interact at all.
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