>Someone wrote:
>> >One question is about spaces. I'd prefer to say that the fields of a
>> >K: line may be separated by spaces, for readability. The only problem
>> >with this is the abc 1.6 description of "global accidentals", which
>> >use the same syntax but with the accidentals separated from the
>> ><tonic> and <mode>. However, I've been unable to find any abc that
>> >uses global accidentals, or any software that implements it. So
>> >perhaps we should decree "global accidentals" no longer part of abc's
>> >syntax, and permit spaces between the K: fields.
>> >
>
>I'm a bit confused here. My parser (for yaps and abc2midi) implements
>global accidentals with spaces between them, but these modify the key
>signature rather than the every individual note. Is this what is being
>proposed ?
>
Me too. Is it the case that accidentals separated from the tonic/mode
by a space are to be treated as global accidentals and applied to each
note as it occurs, while accidentals written without a preceding space
are to be added to the key signature?
Currently BarFly follows the standard by sprinkling the global accidentals
through the music, but I have no problem with doing it the other way.
Personally, I'd rather just ignore spaces and leave the decision as
to how to treat the extra accidentals up to the user.
Phil Taylor
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