From: "John Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:38 AM Subject: [abcusers] N-times repeats
> I. Oppenheim writes: > | I've now also updated the ties and slurs section of > | http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html > | to give PNG examples of nested slurs. > | Please have a look to see if you can agree. > > It's getting to look better and better. > > One thing I noticed missing: The repeat section doesn't > mention the N-times-through notation like > > |:: ... ::| % Play this three times. > |::: ... :::| % Play this four times. > > I've implemented this in jcabc2ps, and used it in a few > tunes. I've found that, although musicians will say that > they've never seen this the first time I saw it was in abc... > they invariably know exactly what it means. after some explaining I guess ;-) > Of course, when a phrase is played three or more times, you > usually do have different endings. This is why many people > haven't seen this notation. But it can be very handy when > you're just writing a basic version of a tune, and you note > that one phrase really is played four times. The upcoming standard is not yet explicit in allowing/disallowing variant ending out of a P-part notation (which is missing begin repeats) Arent To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
