On Fri 16 Nov 2001 at 04:20PM -0800, John Walsh wrote: > I haven't been following closely enough to be sure, but I have the > impression that the idea of basing the tempo on the L: field has been > pretty well discarded, except possibly as a legacy from abc 1.6 in the > (deprecated) Q:120 syntax. True? I hope so, since it's an unstable > indicator: there can be times when the user makes an in-line change of the > L: field to accomodate, say, a couple of bars chock-full of 1/32 > notes---makes it easier to write, and to read too, for that matter--- and > it's a bit disconcerting to hear the playback speed up by a factor of four > for for just those bars. >
This was resolved ages ago. Q:120 takes the value of unit note length from the header. If there is a new L: field in the body of the tune, the tempo does not change with it because (as you point out) this would result in nonsense. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
