Jack Campin wrote- >One beef. Why are the accidentals given that way? ABC has an >irritating non-uniformity here: you write flats and sharps >prefixed with ^ and _ if they occur as accidentals in the melody >line of a piece, b and # postfixed in the key signature and in >chords. Couldn't a uniform notation (^ and _ prefixed >everywhere) be supported? Printed music notation has this duality, and abc just followed suit (quite appropriately, to those of us who still believe that there should be a mapping between abc and printed music). Notes in the tune are represented by tadpoles with prefixed accidentals that are omitted if they're in the key signature and remain enabled throughout the measure, and chords are represented alphabetically with post fixed accidentals that aren't. Trying to fix it in abc without an analogous change in printed music will be asking for trouble. Laurie wrote- >Incidentally, it occurred to me that "/G" would be a logical >name for the degenerate single-note chord which has G in the >bass and nothing else. Any takers? Right here, Laurie. I think it's brilliant. ______ /\/\/\/\ <______> | | | | | David Barnert <______> | | | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <______> | | | | | Albany, N.Y. <______> \/\/\/\/ Ventilator Concertina Bellows Bellows (Vocation) (Avocation) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
