>>>>> "John" == John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> In some musical circles, there is a convention that, without
John> any stated mode, upper case means major and lower case means
John> minor. I've wondered whether we might oficially sanction
John> this usage in abc, since it's so "natural" to many
John> musicians. This would mean that K:D would mean D major and
John> K:d would mean D minor. OTOH, musicians are so sloppy about
John> such things that maybe it's not worth discussing.
I think it's worth making it clear in the standard whether it's a
convention ABC adheres to or not. My vote would be for not, because I
think existing ABC treats A and a as both meaning A major, so we
wouldn't know how much ABC we'd be breaking.
John> ... So perhaps we should decree "global
John> accidentals" no longer part of abc's syntax, and
John> permit spaces between the K: fields.
Laura> I agree with this.
John> It would mean that I'd have to a bit more hacking on my clone of
John> abc2ps, since the code that I implemented doesn't allow spaces
John> everywhere. But it would add to user friendliness, and would make my
John> tune finder's retrieval code work better, so I'd do it.
I have to do more hacking on the abc2ly converter, too. I tend to
hack it until it deals with the ABC I'm translating that week. This
week, I had a
K: G mixolydian bass
line, and it missed the bass clef. Instead of hacking, I converted it
to
K: G mix bass
and that works.
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