[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I downloaded a few files off the internet to test my parser. I think I
> understand everything that I see in the abc notation except for one thing:
> there are some lines that seem to start with a square bracket ([) but there
> is no closing bracket and it doesn't seem to be part of a chord. What's this
> supposed to do, and which tool supports it?
It's first and second repeat endings - pretty standard ABC, really,
although it seems most people leave the square bracket in front of the
numbers out nowadays.
Your example raises another old abc notation question, btw. The
exclamation marks at the line ends is, as far as I understand it, a
abcwin peculiarity and not really common abc. Please don't start arguing
whether it ought to be a part of the standard or not - that train left
the station years ago. But it'd be interesting to know which
applications accept this notation, which ones require it and which choke
on it.
Frank Nordberg
http://www.musicaviva.com
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