I've just translated a Beethoven piece into ABC, and ran into a strange problem.
One of the bars (actually two of them) goes like this:
X:1
T:Sixteenth note quintuplet
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:Eb
(5b/c'/b/a/b/ c'b|
that is, with a pretty common sixteenth note quintuplet.
For some reason that doesn't seem to work. Both BarFly and abc4mac
(abc2ps and abc2midi) seems to expect the quintuplet to be written as
eight notes:
X:2
T:Eight note quintuplet
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:Eb
(5bc'bab c'b|
Now, I've always heard quintuplet defined as "five notes in the place of
four", but it seems strange that three independently developed ABC
applications can have exactly the same bug. So, is there any tradition
anywhere for the "five notes in the place of two" definition of quintuplets?
Frank Nordberg
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