----- Original Message ----- From: "John Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] ABC Standard 2.0 revision III
> Bernard Hill writes: > While it is indeed common practice to omit begin-repeat symbols, this > is not a nice thing to do to your readers. I've often found myself > hunting for the beginning of a repeat, and thinking "Why couldn't the > f***ing idiots who did this take the half-second extra to mark the > beginning of the repeat with a fat bar and two dots?" In my > experience, this produces more disasters during rehearsals (and > sometimes during inadequately-rehearsed performances) than all other > bad notation practices combined. > > If I had my druthers, I'd put a rule in saying that beginnings of > repeated sections *must* be marked properly. *Hear hear !* > But of course that's > dreaming yet another impossible dream. <sigh> Arent To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
