On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:25:45PM +0000, James Allwright wrote:
> The Q: field is documented reasonably well by the 1.6 standard. In the
> long distant past there was a similar problem caused by the standard 
> stating that an implicit value for the L: field can be deduced from the
> value of the M: field. A naive reader of the standard might ask "Does 
> the unit note length (L:) change if the meter (M:) changes in the
> middle of a tune ?". If they are tied together in this way, you get
> very peculiar results, so it is important that unit note length is
> stated or deduced once at the beginning of a tune and only changes
> thereafter if explicitly re-defined. Likewise, dynamic re-definition
> of tempo when something else changes is undesirable. I think this
> is really just common sense.

At least abc2ps will reset the L: value if you change the M: value. It
results in stuff that looks like this:

abc|[M:2/2][L:1/4]ab|[M:3/4][L:1/4]cde

Very ugly.

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