>> If you read the 1.6 spec carefully, what it says is that the
>> things called "global accidentals" are to be drawn before all the
>> notes in the tune. It says "... for example, K:D =c would write the
>> key signature as two sharps (key of D) but then mark every c as
>> natural ...." It also states that such accidentals are separated from
>> each other and the key signature by spaces.
> Does anyone have a requirement for global accidentals as described above?
> Would anyone object if they were dropped and you got the ability to add
> accidentals to the key signature instead ? If the answer to both of these
> is "no", then we should adopt the key signature implementation of global
> accidentals.
I think this should be a preference settable in the application rather
than part of ABC itself. Example of where you might want this: the
Scots song/strathspey "Tullochgorum" is in the mixolydian mode with
the seventh very strongly emphasized. If I was typesetting this for
myself, I'd put that information in the key signature. But almost
every copy of the tune notated in the last 250 years has done it the
other way, so there has got to be a market for that option.
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