| If my posts from Thursday and Friday on this subject have been received,
| please forgive the redundancy. I have seen neither the original messages nor
| any replies appear on abcusers, so it seems that my messages never got
| through.
Well, I'm pretty sure I never saw it.
| In 4/4 time, hornpipe rhythm, what is the best way in abc to notate a bar
| containing six rests and notes of equal duration? If there were no rests,
| (3aaa (3aaa would suffice. But if I change any of those notes to rests, e.g.,
| (3zaa (3azz, yaps issues several errors and renders the measure as if it were
| in 5/4 time.
This has gotta be a bug. I just checked, and the test cases for
abc2ps include a number of tuplets with rests. They all work just
fine. Granted, this isn't something that you see often, but it's
obviously legal, and should work.
| Incidentally, are rests in the midst of tuples ever seen in professionally
| printed sheet music, or are they somehow considered "bad form"? If bad form,
| what would be the correct way to display this sort of rhythm?
Nothing wrong with it at all. I haven't seen it often, but I've seen
it, and I don't think there's anything at all remarkable about it. Of
course, a case like (3azz is a bit weird, since few musicians would
play it differently from az, but it's certainly not illegal. A case
like (3zag is completely normal, as is (3azg.
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