> ABC is not a pseudo-staff-notation, nor a pseudo-MIDI-format: it is a > standalone music notation. The problem with ties and accidentals is > easily solved; it's just to make a decision in either direction. Let's > say we hereby decide that ... > The important thing is that there is no doubt about how an ABC tune > shall be read or interpreted. ... > How an ABC tune is translated to staff notation, or Tabulatur, or MIDI, or whatever > however, will always be subject to difficulties, as there are > so many variants of staff notation.
Yes! That's it! You can try to get ABC convenient, readable, close to some staff notation or what ever you wan't. But first of all you must keep (or get) it to contain unique (well formed or well defined if you want) information. Then all interpretation problems reduce to simple translation. "Unique" doesn't mean that there's only one way to transcribe something. Like '123.45' or '+123.45' or '1.2345e2' mean exactly the same in C. And there's now hidden information (at least for the compiler) in which trancription is used. Toni To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
