Wil Macauley wrote:
>Interesting! Laura, your attachment can through just fine, so I ran
>it through Skink, which parsed it but went into a hard loop when asked
>to display the tune, because it can't handle the double whole note (G16 at
>the end).
>How _should_ that note be displayed?
For those of us on this side of the Atlantic, brought up on Crotchets
and Quavers that's called a Breve. If you display the tune in BarFly
you can see what it looks like. (You'll have to move the K: field to
the end of the header where it belongs, and also put a bar line at the
end of each line, otherwise BarFly will display it all on one line.)
>and in general, since you can
>specify arbitrary note lengths in abc, is there any consensus on
>how something like
>
>X:1
>T:Wierd lengths
>L:1/8
>M:C
>K:C
>a5 b9 c11 a17
>
>should be displayed?
>
I don't think odd note lengths like that should be used in music which
is intended to be displayed (although they might be useful for music
which is intended only to be played). You can, of course write them
as a4-a, b8-b etc., but there are several alternative ways of splitting
them up, and this affects the appearance of the music, so although
it could be done by programs which interpret the abc, it's probably
better to be done by the transcriber.
Phil Taylor
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