Guido Gonzato wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
>
>> OK for me. You may try it in abcm2ps-1.6.5 I'm uploading just now.
>>
>> BTW, it would be fine to have a common ABC definition on how to print
>> and play multi-voice tunes...
>
>thanks for the upload, Jean-Fran�ois. BTW, your statement raises an
>important question, at least for me, a relatively new abc user.
>
>How often, and following wich procedure, is the ABC standard
>revised/updated? It's very strange to me that even the 1.7.6 draft doesn't
>include references to the V field.
I think the answer to the first part is "sporadically". It is indeed
a great lack of the current draft that the V: field is not discussed.
The problem is that this is a very complicated extension, and nobody
seems to want to sit down and write a draft proposal for it. There
are already several mutually-incompatible variants about, which will
have to be resolved.
>abc2ps' and abcm2ps' authors have done quite a good job at defining a
>working syntax for specifying staves and voices. Unless someone disagrees on
>this implementation on well-documented grounds, IMO it should be time for
>inclusion in the ABC standard.
I object to the incorporation of %%staves into the standard on the grounds
that the %% construction is designed to be a temporary construct, used
for the introduction of new or program-specific features which can
be ignored bu other programs. If it's going to be part of the standard
it should be allotted a field identifier of its own to indicate its
importance.
BarFly, of course uses a completely different method of specifying
this, by placing the information (along with other voice-specific
global stuff) in V: fields in the header of the tune.
>Later,
> Guido =8-)
>
>
>P.S. - has anybody got a song for/about a pregnant woman? My son Lorenzo is
>due late January...
>
All the songs I can think of involve nasty things happening to pregnant
women. You would not want to sing Willy's Lady, or Silly Sisters
or Prince Heathen to your pregnant wife. I can't offhand think of
a single cheerful traditional song about pregnancy, which shows, I
suppose, what a terrifyingly dangerous business reproduction was
in previous centuries.
Phil Taylor
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