Hello,
John Chambers wrote:
> (...)
[First and second repeats]
> After several online discussions, I (and probably a few others) have
> implemented the rather trivial extension of allowing any string of
> digits, commas, hyphens and periods to label an ending. This means
> that endings like [1,3 and [1-3 work with a very few abc tools. If
> you use them in your tunes, my Tune Finder will handle them and
> return correct PS or GIF notation.
I agree that [1,3 and [1-3 should be standard. It is easy to separate
this ending stuff from other abc text.
I would like to add:
[1+3
and
[1&3
and
a way of saying for example
[last time
(this can be found in arrangements for traditional tunes)
I want to give it a try:
the standard for combining chords and guitarchords correctly is:
["Order of symbols" from the 1.6 standard]
`Open and close chord symbols, [], should enclose entire note
sequences (except for
guitar chords), i.e. "C"[CEGc]'
since the annotation syntax derivates from the guitarchord syntax I
presume that this is also the legal order for annotations.
What I want to create is a text field that is not an ordinary annotation
but a text that *replaces* (or adds to) the number in the endings
bracket.
The standard for ending brackets is:
["First and second repeats" from the 1.6 standard]
`First and second repeats can be generated with the symbols [1 and
[2, .... When adjacent to bar lines, these can be shortened to |1 and
:|2 ...'
My Idea is to use the annotation syntax and the first and second ending
(i.e. `repeats') syntax and combine them to textual ending syntax.
On first sight it is clear that `|"last time"' would be accepted by all
programmes but just as ordinary annotation. So such an extention cannot
work with this shortcut.
But with the standards *normal* version using the squarebracket (begin)
as indicator for the special case `first or second ending', no serious
troubles arise:
`["last time"' is non-ambiguous since [" is not legal under any other
circumstances.
(the meaning can be backed by the fact that the squarebracket as ending
indicator is allways preceded by a | character (legally followed by no
other characters than backslashes, spaces, linebreakes, tabs), meaning
never preceded by a letter.
So my proposal is:
$ the numbers in the brackets of a first or second ending
% (may we call these `multiple endings'?)
$ can be replaced by a text in quotes. In this case it
$ does not work to use the shortcut |"text" since this
$ would be interpreted as a guitarchord
Again I do not see any troubles to allow the extention-extention:
`|(spaces, backslashes, linebreakes, tabs)[<numeral><"text">'
where <numeral> also could be any of the extentions proposed earlier.
Example:
abcdefg |1+3 a2bcdefg :|\
[2+4 b2cdefga ||\
["last ending" c8 |]
Or
abcdefg |1+3"last ending" a2bcdefg :|\
[2+4 b2cdefga |]
regards,
Simon Wascher - Vienna, Austria
http://members.chello.at/simon.wascher/
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