>Bryan Creer : >>I've gone for highest note prevails in the counting of the times >so you >>can do things like - >> >>X:1 >>T:The Cotillion >>C:Trad (Bosham Band) >>M:4/4 >>L:1/8 >>K:G >>[G4D4][d4B,4]|[B2D4]AB [G2B,4]AB|[c2E4]B2[A2D4]G2|[FD4]GAF >[D3A,3]D|
The trouble with this is that there are an awful lot of difficult cases to deal with. BarFly handles chords with notes of unequal length by padding out the shorter notes with rests when playing, so it's "longest note prevails". The chord gets drawn on a single stem though, so if you have an eighth and a sixteenth in the same chord the result looks like two sixteenths, as they're both drawn on a stem with two tails. The way to deal with this, I suppose, is to draw two separate notes with tails in opposite directions, but then what do you do if there is more than two notes in the chord? I can see both advantages and disadvantages in doing it other ways, but no clear best solution. On the whole, I'd prefer it if people either used as many voices as necessary to represent the music, or used ties, i.e. [B2D2-]D2 instead of [B2D4]. Using unequal notes in chords just leads to too many ambiguities. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
