| >>>>> "John" == John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| 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.
Me, too. But I thought it might be worth mentioning, to see whether
there are any feelings on the subject at all. I recall some time back
adding a bit of code to my tune finder's search bot to tell me about
such things. It found only a handful of matches, and all were clearly
intended to be major. I've seen a lot more on mailing lists, where
much of the abc is incorrect, of course.
So maybe we should say that case is irrelevant for the <tonic> field,
and we encourage typing the first letter in upper case, though we
don't require it. This would make K:bBM legal and mean Bb minor.
| 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.
Groan!
It can be tricky to exterminate this sort of bug.
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