Frank Nordberg wrote:
>X:2
>T:Swing example 2
>R:Swing
>M:C
>L:1/8
>K:C
>CC EE GG AA|_BB AA (2GF (2ED|CC EE GG AA|_Bc BA GE ^DE|
>
>The latter is of course semantically incorrect, but most musicians will
>understand it.
If you write it like this (2:2:GF (2:2:ED it will look the
same when printed, but will also play correctly. (Telling the program
to play two notes in the time of two might seem silly, but actually
causes it to divide the notes evenly, ignoring the stress program.)
>>So I prefer to work with "R:hornpipe % i.e., swing" in the header.
>
>Why not simply "R:swing"?
>
I think only BarFly and abcMus will let you write and name your own
stress programs, so if he's not using one of those he is stuck with
whatever the programmer has written into the code.
>Phil Taylor wrote:
>>
>> In principle, you can use an R: field in the tune, so there's nothing to
>>stop
>> you putting [R:none] before the straight notes and [R:hornpipe] to restore
>> the swing afterwards. I just tried it in BarFly and discovered that it only
>> recognises the first R: change, ignoring subsequent ones (I'll have to fix
>> that).
>
>Not exactly. I tried toying around with inline R: fields, and it turns
>out that an inline R: field simply turns the stress program off.
>
OK. Either way it goes on the list of things to fix :-(
Phil Taylor
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