Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-09 Thread Jack Campin
The obvious problem for a player is that people can easily type all sorts of of malformed endings. For example: |: ... |1,3 ... :|4 ... :| There's no 2nd ending here. I'd probably say that there are at least two possible behaviors here: You could play it three times, skipping the

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-09 Thread Laurie Griffiths
OK - I can live with + and but I still think it's not a good idea. If full stops (periods) are allowed, do they mean the same as commas? There are other peculiarities to worry about, for instance Muse normally does automatic bar-length counting. For normal music (I will leave normal

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-09 Thread Simon Wascher
Hello, John Chambers: Well, the [1+3 and [13 cases are silly, Well, to me it is what I write in tadpoles notation, maybe this is an austrian speciality but I understand 1+3 as first *and* third ending and 1+3 is a shortcut for this. by the way, I thought we came to the conclusion not to

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-09 Thread Simon Wascher
John Chambers: | [last time Yeah; this is useful. But a problem in the past has been that the discussion of how to do this bogs down as people try to solve all possible repeat problems. After a while, people get bored trying to follow the abstrusities, the topic dies, and nothing

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-09 Thread Laurie Griffiths
If you want an apology then it means I have been misunderstood and I am sorry for any offence (which *is* an apology). I described the IDEA as silly. Not at all the same thing as describing the person as silly. (Show me the person who has never had a silly idea and I'll show you a person who

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-09 Thread Laurie Griffiths
If you want an apology then it means I have been misunderstood and I am sorry for any offence (which *is* an apology). I described the IDEA as silly. Not at all the same thing as describing the person as silly. (Show me the person who has never had a silly idea and I'll show you a person who

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-09 Thread Taral
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:26:57PM -, Laurie Griffiths wrote: I would still personally prefer to have just one way to write it rather than all of these variants. I care rather little which of the variants is chosen but my preference is for ones towards the tops of the lists of

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard is [1,3

2001-12-09 Thread John Chambers
Simon Wascher writes: | John Chambers: | Well, the [1+3 and [13 cases are silly, | | Well, to me it is what I write in tadpoles notation, maybe this is an | austrian speciality but I understand 1+3 as first *and* third ending | and 1+3 is a shortcut for this. | | by the way, I thought we came to