Re: [abcusers] Defining the non-note letters

2002-06-07 Thread John Chambers
Well, it's been a bunch of days, and no more replies appeared ... | John Chambers wrote: | | So should the header field be 'm' or 'U' or something else? | I have a weak preference for 'm', because I think of this | as a (parameterless) macro. I don't know what 'U' might | stand for. But

Re: [abcusers] Defining the non-note letters

2002-06-01 Thread John Chambers
Well, there hasn't been much response on the list, though I did get a couple of private messages on the topic. It seems to me that the main question to be decided is between: John Chambers wrote: m: T !trill! m: ~ !roll! m: H !fermata! Phil Taylor wrote: | U: R = arpeggio As I recall, there

Re: [abcusers] Defining the non-note letters

2002-05-29 Thread Phil Taylor
John Chambers wrote: As I (sorta) understand the suggestions, they amount to defining a list of standard musical terms, possibly in the !...! form. This would give us a list of things like !fermata!, !mf!, !sfz!, !trill!, !roll!, and so on. These could be used, but the result