Just out of curiosity, which programs implement V: lines
now? And for each, does it use the "higher" notation, where
letters represent notes on the staff, or the "lower", where
bass clef needs commas on most notes?
Also, is there a reliable way to distinguish which is in
use, short of counting the commas? I get the feeling that
the "lower" ones also tend to have some initial V: lines
with a "program" clause and bare clef names, where the
"higher" always seems to say clef=bass or whatever. But I
don't know if this can be reliably used to distinguish the
two schemes.
What I'm trying to do is get my Tune Finder to decide which
it is seeing, and handle it appropriately. Since it uses
abc2ps, which does the "higher" notation, the "lower" kind
comes out rather unreadable. But if there were a way to
tell easily which notation was in use, it might be pretty
easy to adjust for it.
(There's also the "grand staff" concept, which maps C-B to
the upper bass staff and c-b to the lower treble staff; I
guess that's a third scheme which someone has probably made
use of by now. As a keyboard player, it makes a lot of
sense to me, but I suppose the partisans of the other two
schemes would roundly flame me for saying so. ;-)
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