Laura remarks:
>>>>> "John" == John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> The implementations seem to be fairly consistent now, except for
the
John> minor point that - (minus) and _ (underscore) shouldn't be
mixed.
John> There's an ambiguity that is interpreted differently by
different
John> programs. I'm still not clear what the "right" interpretation is,
and
John> the fact that it took a couple of years for it to come out
says
John> something about how big a deal it is. So it's probably pretty low
on
John> most implementers' lists of problems to fix.
I reported it to Michael Methfessel over a year ago. And it's high on
my list, and I would think on the list of anyone who uses words.
Hmmm ... This might be another example of differences in
interpratation of what the notation means. I'd consider mixing
hyphens and underscores to be some sort of typo, because the way I
understand them, combining them is nonsensical. They both mean the
same thing, but are represented on paper differently. So there's no
apparent meaning added to using both.
But this is obviously not true for at least one user, and thus likely
not true for some class of musicians. So there must be some other
meaning to this than what's in my mind. What might that be?
The reason I'd predict that this would be low on a lot of people's
priority list is that I'd guess that most people would be equally
baffled by why you would use them together. For that matter, I'd also
guess that most musicians haven't even noticed the use of the long
underscores in vocal music, or if they have, they don't attach much
meaning to it. (In some cases, it seems to just add what looks like
an extra staff line, making for more difficult reading. ;-) People
who don't understand such notation aren't likely to consider it too
important to implement.
There seem to be many examples of music notation that is considered
indispensable by some musicians and not even recognized by others.
(I'm still wondering how a music notation developed by a strongly
Irish-oriented crowd lacks the triple-dot ornament. ;-)
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