Christoph Dalitz wrote: | Buddha Buck wrote: | > | > Chord notation is not free text. It is a chord. There may be no | > restriction to the syntax of a chord to be presented, but semantically, | > it's a chord. | > | It is essential that the "guitar chord" syntax is not restricted. | | Consider eg. figured bass, which is the Baroque equivalent of | guitar chords in Folk music. Thus it should be notated in the same | way as "guitar chords".
Which reminds me: Are there any ABC tools that allow multi-line chords? This is necessary to show figured bass correctly. I can think of several "obvious" ways to do this, but I don't think I've ever seen any of them. Thus, one might use semicolons in the style of a lot of programming languages, and expect that "6;4" would display the 6 directly above the 4. (It also seems standard for figured bass to be below the staff, but that's a different issue.) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
