Simon Wascher writes: | 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. | | :-|
Sorry if I offended. I was basically just being a bit flippant. By "silly" I don't really mean there's anything wrong with it, just that it seems like something that's not one or the world's major problems at the moment. While I've seen this use of '+', I haven't seen it often. Commas are by far the overwhelming choice of most publishers for this usage. I can see why people would want to not bother with anything else, but on the other hand, allowing such alternate chars is also not a big deal to a programmer. My response to such things would be to shrug and add it to the program (which I've already done with my abc2ps clone). But it's possible that we could put it to a vote, in which case it could easily be rejected. But again, it's not topic of major importance. More important is that we get some action making this sort of ending part of the published abc standard syntax. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
