Anton Keijzer wrote: >To introduce myself: I have an interest in the usability of ASCII file formats >for music composition by blind musicians. > >My question: >In the case of the proposed V: extension to the abc file format, is it proposed >to be legal notation to have more than 2 occurences of, for example, V:1, for >different segments of the one voice? It might, in my opinion, make abc text >more readable, in particular, for blind composers. This would be like the >bar-over-bar layout of braille music notation.
I'm not sure about braille notation, but you can certainly have multiple occurrences of each V: field. In fact, BarFly will only display the music correctly if each line is preceded by its own V: field, so the layout of the abc is the same as that of the music. Mind you, the usage of the V: field is not very standardised. I wrote a discussion of the differences between the different programs a while back; it's at: http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/multivoice.txt Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
