[abcusers] Change of address

2001-12-16 Thread Sean Corcoran
Please note my change of email address. It is now [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages sent to the old address after Thurs. Dec. 13 will not have been received. Thank You.

Re: [abcusers] Re: Initial repeats

2001-12-16 Thread Jack Campin
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.

Re: [abcusers] Initial repeats

2001-12-16 Thread Bryancreer
Jack Campin says - repeat signs are bars, I don't think so. At a quick glance, seven out of the first twelve tunes in the Northumbrian Piper's Tune Book have repeat symbols that don't coincide with bars. Also, if you want to reorganize the line breaks, you have to edit the adjacent :| and |:

Re: [abcusers] Re: Initial repeats

2001-12-16 Thread Phil Taylor
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

Re: [abcusers] Re: Initial repeats

2001-12-16 Thread Laura Conrad
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