On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Phil Taylor wrote:
> BarFly doesn't require this; you can write the music either on the
> same line as the V: field or on the following line, but the former
> makes for compact and readable music, and I would like to retain it
> as an option. (It's not difficult to program; you just have to treat
> a space following the voice number as equivalent to a line end.)
Doing so would blow all the abc with V:1 clef=bass (used by abcm2ps and
very common in multi-voice abc files) right out of the water.
To accomodate both barfly and abcm2ps variants you would have to scan
ahead on the v: line until you can guess (and that's all you can do) that
the line contains music instead of other data such as clef or octave. In the
clef=bass example, such a search would likely find that the line contained
MUSIC! (c is a note, l is a valid shortcut for decorations, e, f, =b, and a are
all notes, s is another valid shortcut for decorations). So, you would then have
to search the line for keywords such as clef=, and even then you couldn't be
sure that you weren't interpreting music as keywords!
Finally, just to throw an even bigger wrench in the works, I'm pretty sure I've
seen a bit of abc that names the voices, instead of numbering them. I.e.
something like V: alto to switch to the voice named alto. Apparently, there must
be some package out there that uses this convention.
--
John Atchley
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