On Tue 08 Jan 2002 at 09:14AM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
James == James Allwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Someone incorrectly writes:
: James is adamant that abc2midi won't play a repeat unless there's
: a balanced begin/end.
James Damn! Take a
Someone incorrectly writes:
: James is adamant that abc2midi won't play a repeat unless there's
: a balanced begin/end.
Damn! Take a day off work and someone decides to put nonsense words
in your mouth! Just for the record, abc2midi does have code in there
to guess the start of repeats
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From: Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re: Initial repeats
A somewhat trickier problem is that there's currently a fair amount
of abc tunes that don't even use the initial repeat on second
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, James Allwright wrote:
My point is that missing out a start repeat is bad notation; an
anacrusis at the start of a piece generates ambiguity and I think you
will be hard pressed to find a music textbook that legitimizes the
process of missing off start repeats.
From The
Ah. I do apologise for maligning your software!
L.
- Original Message -
From: Phil Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Re: Initial repeats
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
(I think there was (and may still
A somewhat trickier problem is that there's currently a fair amount
of abc tunes that don't even use the initial repeat on second and
later sections. Some users seems to think that :| is a fine way to
start a repeated section.
This is also what many printed sources do, e.g.
Jack Campin wrote:
Version 3 *should* produce an error warning, as there is an empty bar
between lines 3 and 4; this is no different from writing the first two
lines as
Aee efg|edB dBG|Aee efg|edB A3 |
|aaa gag|fgf eAA|Aee efg|edB A3:|
which BarFly correctly flags as an attempt to write a
John == John Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John My conclusion is that there's no standard for this among printers, at
John least in the British Isles and North America. The best advice for
John anyone implementing an ABC player would be to expect all of these,
John
David Barnert writes:
| Laura Conrad wrote:
| But it might not be a bad idea for printing programs to provide
| an option to not print an initial |:. ...
|
| This certainly suggests that there is a compelling reason for abc
| to require a |: at the beginning of a tune (if the first notes are
|
