On Sun 14 Apr 2002 at 10:19PM +0100, Phil Taylor wrote: > I'm asking this on behalf of a friend who is considering starting a large > transcription project, entering music into abc. He wants to use Gore > or Breathnach's melodic codes to simplify searching. The question is, > what field to use? > > My personal opinion is that such an important entry needs a field to > itself. Is it time perhaps to re-cycle the I: field, used long ago > to set tempo by playabc, but long superceded by the Q: field? Or should > a new lower-case field be considered? >
The abc2midi parser makes use of the I: field, allowing it to contain things like octave=2 . If you want to fit in with this scheme, you could choose a new named field and write something like melodic=XXXX . Otherwise, a %% field would be good option. James Allwright To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
