Hi, Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I downloaded a few files off the internet to test my parser. I think I > understand everything that I see in the abc notation except for one thing: > there are some lines that seem to start with a square bracket ([) but there > is no closing bracket and it doesn't seem to be part of a chord. What's this > supposed to do, and which tool supports it? > If you build an ABC language parser, it could be a good idea to read at least the abc standard V1.6 (http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/abc.txt), which says: --- First and second repeats ======================== First and second repeats can be generated with the symbols [1 and [2, e.g. faf gfe|[1 dfe dBA:|[2 d2e dcB|]. When adjacent to bar lines, these can be shortened to |1 and :|2, but with regard to spaces | [1 is legal, | 1 is not. --- It has not been modified in the proposed changes to the standard (http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard-propose.txt). Hope it helps. Christophe To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
