On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Phil Taylor wrote:
> John Atchley wrote:
> >On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Phil Taylor wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> V:1 clef=bass blows BarFly out of the water! If you want to change
> clef in BarFly you have to do it in a K: field, so you would write
> that as V:1 [K:bass] or V:1 [K:clef=bass] or
> V:1
> K:bass
> etc.
That kind of illustrates the point I was making, that "it's not difficult to program"
is a bit of an oversimplification ;-)
The fact is that we have an awful lot of music out there using both styles, so
any solution has to at least offer a chance of getting it right for files written
both ways. It seems the way to handle this is to update the standard to permit
either method (and to standardize it before we end up with another dozen or
so variations) and leave it up to software (probably with user-definable
configuration) to decide which syntax is in use for any given file.
--
John Atchley
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