[Irwin Oppenheim] >>> P:A >>> [V:V1] C G C >>> [V:V2] E B E >>> P:B >>> [V:V1] A E A >>> [V:V2] C G C
>> So, would it be correct to state that P: resets the music generator >> when encountered in the tune body, and that the above example should >> thus be equivalent to the following: >> P:A >> K:C >> [V:A1] C G C >> [V:A2] E B E >> P:B >> K:Am >> [V:B1] A E A >> [V:B2] C G C No - there's no need to rename the voices. The main point of P: is if you *also* have a P: line in the header, which you've omitted in your example. The way BarFly does multiple voices, you can't do what you just did with the K: line. This does make some sort of sense - there's no presupposition that all voices will change key at the same time. What do other applications do here, in cases where there's a visible change in the signature? [Phil Taylor] > Current BarFly versions have a bug which makes playing of tunes with > multiple voices and part-order a bit unpredictable, but this: > X:1 > T:test > M:C > P:ABAB > K:C > P:A > [V:1] C G C > [V:2] E B E > P:B > [V:1] A E A > [V:2] C G C > will display as expected, but not play properly beacuse the P:A > field is not contained within any voice, while the P:B field > is logically located at the end of the first line of voice 2, and not > present at all in voice 1. > You could write it like this: > X:2 > T:test 2 > M:C > P:ABAB > K:C > [V:1][P:A] C G C > [V:2][P:A] E B E > % > [V:1][P:B] A E A > [V:2][P:B] C G C > Which displays the same as X:1, and _ought_ to play properly once > I get around to fixing it:-) It doesn't display the same - you get a part label on each voice, which looks weird. There should only be one for all voices. (Part label placement in BarFly is strange even for single-voice tunes). This way of doing things makes manipulation of parts more work than it needs to be. It should be like cut-and-paste of paragraphs in a word-processing document; you don't need to type something at the start of each line to say what paragraph it belongs in. [John Chambers] : I recently typed up a transcription of the following, for which : I've stripped out all but the first bar of music in each section. : Note that the P: lines are just used to give the conventional : classical tempo terms. Don't all ABC applications support words for tempi in some way or other by now? So why do this? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files, and my CD-ROM "Embro, Embro". ------> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "abc" at this site, please <------ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
