Eric Galluzzo donned his asbestos suit and opined:
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| Regarding %%staves
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| I personally find %%staves very useful, and (despite comments to the
| contrary) very intuitive. How about adding some official variant of
| this to the standard? It seems much more concise, and more intuitive,
| than the
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| V:1 bracket=2
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| type notation that abc2ps had originally introduced. We are running out
| of letters for headers, though; how about lowercase "s"? Thus:
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| X:1
| T:My Choir + Organ Piece
| M:4/4
| L:1/4
| s:[1 2 3 4] {(5 6) (7 8) 9}
| K:C
| ...
Well, we could, but I think I like the %%staves better. The
reason is that we really have adopeed %% as a sort of
"pragma" or "metacommand" flag, and we have a significant
body of formatting goodies in this notation. It seems
cleaner to me to leave the core abc notation fairly devoid
of formatting stuff, and package it off to the side like
this. So %%staves would be in the same class as
%%leftmargin, %%titlefont, %%indent, and the rest. They all
deal with non-musical formatting information, not with the
music itself.
One of the standard's appendices could include a list of
these, with the general suggestion that software implement
any that are applicable. For players, of course, they are
all irrelevant.
What do others think?
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