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> There are a number of similar situations, where you can express a bit
> of music in ABC easily, but various programs don't allow it. Another
> one is having an incomplete bar at the end of a staff.
>
> The best solution is probably to continue to bring up such problems,
> and push for getting them fixed.
Yes, absolutely!
> I'd consider the lack of trailing
> grace notes to be simply a bug, since it's clearly legal musical
> notation.
It's a fine point, but I would consider adding a bar line to the end
to be a bug (something that the programmer did that was wrong)
whereas the lask of trailing grace notes is probably just a missing
feature (something the programmer didn't do). Most programmers
that I know will try to fix the former as a priority (I'm pleased to
say that Muse allows short bars on the end). But there is an infinite
number of cool things that a program doesn't do yet (Muse doesn't
do trills yet either), so these have to be argued and take their place
in the queue. (Are trills more important than hammer-ons?
Depends - which do you play more often? Flute or guitar).
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I think the distinction between graces that steal time from the
previous note and those which steal from the following is
musically important. I'm not 100% clear on the syntax you
are proposing for this. If I want to do
| G4 {A} B4 |
how do you write the two cases which would sound like
| G2-G-G/2-G/4-G/8 A/8 B4 |
or
| G4 A/8 B/8-B/4-B/2-B-B2 |
?
(Not promising to implement ASAP, but clarification is
the first step either way).
Laurie
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