Anselm Lingnau wrote: > Simon Wascher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Example > > X:1 > > Q:n/n=n N/N=N andante > I think this is much too complicated. I'm still waiting for you (or > anybody) to explain why an ABC tune should contain one prescribed > explicit metronome speed for display and another, different, prescribed > explicit metronome speed for playback, and why this would be preferable > to letting users set their own playback speeds `ad hoc', external to the > ABC representation, with the ABC-provided speed as a (reasonable) default.
Anselm you have to decide: you say you find this feature unneccessary. OK. Lets say you are right, its completely impossible that someone needs that. So why bother about its syntax if you cannot imagine someone may need it ? either want it to be easier to use OR say nobody needs it. _the truth about syntax_ It is neccesary to encounter the edges of a choosen syntax to be able if it is stringent, search deeply for the worst cases it produces. This is how a syntax is developed. Every syntax has its dark corners and all we can do is turn the pockets around till we find the least important corner in our proposal to contain the blackest hole of our syntax. So here it is: Q:n/n=n N/N=N andante, dark and sinister but without any meaning in real life. (by the way I wrote more than once that I know what I want to use it for. And discribed it. I can live with the syntax, but I think I found a better one which I posted) Simon Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria http://members.chello.at/simon.wascher/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
