Consider "standard" music notation: My theory is that once upon a time, the repeat sign consisted of two dots (:), and always coincided with a bar line. The bar line was then made thicker or double to point out the ending of the part. Later, the dots have come to be associated with the bar line so that :| is now considered a simple repeat sign, and not a bar line. This is unfortunate, but that is how repeats are used today, and it is unlikely to change.
Well, one suggestion (perhaps not very realistic to implement, but interesting, I think) is that ABC returns to what I think is the original use of repeat signs, so that |: denotes a barline AND a repeatsign, while : is used as a mid-bar repeat. Erik Ronstr�m __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
