On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Taral wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:56:15PM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: > > > |F2A2Bc&F2c2bc| > > > > Is this the same syntax that abc2mtex used to use ? And, is there much abc > > out there that uses it ? I used to have a few, I _think_ I've migrated > > them all to use the newer and easier "V:" - being 2-part all the way. This > > coud well make it easier to drop an extra voice in for just a few > > measures, but backwards-compatability issues can be a pain ... > > I'm mostly foregoing backwards compatibility in the case of new features > like this. I'll check on abc2mtex.
It used a syntax with a '&' to separate 2 voices, before the V: was suggested. Looked pretty much like what you're saying, but involved something extra in the K: line, iirc, which no-one else really adopted. Backwards compatability generally ... tricky issue. There's a lot of ABC out there by now, I'd think that the more of it a library could handle, the more likely that library woud be to get accepted. Or maybe all the developers just want to write their own, I don't know. I don't really rate as a developer, but a certain amount of that old ABC is mine :) I've always fiddled about with my own perl filters & stuff to make things work the way I want, but have always shied away from writing an abc parser. big job, and imho there are plenty already, with their associated incompatabilities, which I don't want to increase. If a well-separated-out library looked like getting at least some acceptance I might want to look into the perl/C interface, by way of getting a perl parser without writing one. Good luck with it. > > > .- and -- operators: > > > Dotted and dashed ties (not sure about these two) > > > > As a shorthand for "(ab.)", do you mean ? > > > > > .(...) operator: > > > Dotted slurs (not sure about this one) > > > > like "(a.b.c.d.)" ? > > > > I wonder if these are worth it ? Or do I misunderstand ? > > No, no, these aren't syntactic sugar. I need ties where the curved line > which is drawn is made of dots or dashes to indicate that the two notes > in question are not always tied together (different voices/verses, for > example). Ah, right, I see. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
