| >>>>> "John" == John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| John> The <tonic> is a capital letter which may be followed by a # or b for
| John> sharp or flat respectively. The case isn't significant.
|
| So why say it's a capitalletter if the case isn't significant?
Because I copied that line from the old standard. ;-)
Actually, I have wondered about this. In some musical circles, there
is a convention that, without any stated mode, upper case means major
and lower case means minor. I've wondered whether we might oficially
sanction this usage in abc, since it's so "natural" to many
musicians. This would mean that K:D would mean D major and K:d would
mean D minor. OTOH, musicians are so sloppy about such things that
maybe it's not worth discussing.
| John> ... So
| John> perhaps we should decree "global accidentals" no longer part of abc's
| John> syntax, and permit spaces between the K: fields.
|
| I agree with this.
It would mean that I'd have to a bit more hacking on my clone of
abc2ps, since the code that I implemented doesn't allow spaces
everywhere. But it would add to user friendliness, and would make my
tune finder's retrieval code work better, so I'd do it.
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