>>>>> "Laurie" == Laurie Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> ...Is this an appropriate moment to suggest throwing
>> in roman-numeral and figured-bass notations as well?
Laurie> Yes, it's the right moment, but I vote against it.
I would have said, no, it's not the right moment, but I vote for it
when it is.
I think the roman numerals can easily be a display type for chords
once we have a standard for entering the chords (which if an
implementer wants to implement it now, could be done with a %%
directive).
The figured bass is a little more complicated, because of needing to
be able to stack several figures, but otherwise presents the same
problems as chords. For instance, they need to be able to change
"between" melody notes, they need to be able to display accidentals,
etc.
Laurie> I want to reduce the number of ways to write it. I just
Laurie> think that they are not ABC. On the same grounds, I don't
Laurie> want to allow writing f in the melody as (1,1) - that's
Laurie> fret 1 on the first string. It's a valid idea, but it's
Laurie> not ABC
I agree that this kind of tablature isn't ABC, but I disagree that
figured bass and roman numerals are any less ABC than chords. And
they seem like a similar enough problems to the chords that they
should be implemented some time.
For people who are interested in extending ABC to deal with tablature,
look at abctab2ps at
http://www.emsland-aktuell.com/lautengesellschaft/cdmm/index.html
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