If you want an apology then it means I have been misunderstood and I am sorry for any offence (which *is* an apology).
I described the IDEA as silly. Not at all the same thing as describing the person as silly. (Show me the person who has never had a silly idea and I'll show you a person who has few ideas). There may also be a language thing - "silly" is to my ear very mild. I understand that 1,3 means first *and* third ending 1&3 means first *and* third ending 1+3 means first *and* third ending 1.3 means first *and* third ending but why not have 1 3 1 and 3 1st, 3rd 1er3me #1,#3 first and third premier et troisieme too while we are at it? I also understand that 1-3 means first, second and third ending but why not 1/3 1~3 for the same thing? I would still personally prefer to have just one way to write it rather than all of these variants. I care rather little which of the variants is chosen but my preference is for ones towards the tops of the lists of alternatives. Laurie Griffiths http://www.musements.co.uk/muse where you will find music notation software for PCs. ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Wascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3 Hello, John Chambers: > Well, the [1+3 and [1&3 cases are silly, Well, to me it is what I write in tadpoles notation, maybe this is an austrian speciality but I understand 1+3 as "first *and* third ending" and 1+3 is a shortcut for this. by the way, I thought we came to the conclusion not to qualify other listmembers postings as "silly". Not every bit of notation I do not share, use or understand is neccessarily silly. :-| Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria http://members.chello.at/simon.wascher/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
