I. Oppenheim writes: | These two concepts seem to be mutually exclusive, | so I wonder which of these two concepts should be | endorsed by the standard? | | BarFly seems to follow concept 2. Are there any | ABC applications that follow concept 1?
Well, 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. This nesting of V inside P seems to work fine with abcm2ps, and with my jcabc2ps clone, so the original abc2ps probably accepts this, too. I determined experimentally that the only way to get the movements to start on a new staff was by using the "T: II" line. This does seem like the natural and intuitive way to write works like this. (And yes, the original key was G, for two transverse flutes. Or maybe it was in G for viola da gamba and cembalo. But my best edition was for two recorders.) X: 1 T: Sonata in Bb T: f\"ur 2 Alt-Blockfl\"oten und Basso Continuo T: BWV 1039 C: J.S.Bach (1685-1750) M: 12/8 L: 1/16 K: Bb P: Adagio V: 1 ... V: 2 ... V: 3 clef=bass middle=d ... % T: II P: Allegro ma non tanto M: 3/4 L: 1/16 %%measurefirst V: 1 ... V: 2 ... V: 3 ... To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
