Even if this were true, there is plenty of music about with mid bar repeats which we don't want to break.
The problem that I alluded to a while ago that I had with Muse (and for which I know no good solution) is something like this T: Rickett's Hornpipel, severely abridged M:4/4 L:1/8 K:D ABc |: dcdA FAdf | edcB A2 etc. but actually initially enters c |: dcdA FA and at this point asks the program to play it, and furthermore to play it "dotted" like an English Hornpipe. There is just no reliable indication of where the bars are. In Muse it's worse that that, because one of the options (we're in GUI tadpole editing now) is to automatically insert bar lines, so the bar lines themselves can be unreliable guides. My way out of that is to assume that the first bar line occurs at the last possible legal moment and to oblige the user to insert one manually if it's needed sooner. L. ----- Original Message ----- From: Erik Ronstr�m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] Initial repeats 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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
