| Can someone explain the problem with quotes after a bar line, please? | Wouldn't it be best to avoid unmatched bracket symbols? | The following works perfectly well with ABC2Win: | | CEC DED |1-3 EGE FAF :|2,4 EFG FED :|"last time" EFG ABc|
Does it actually display the usual ending bracket above the last bar? Or does it just display the text? The above is syntactically the same as: | CEC DED |1-3 EGE FAF :|2,4 EFG FED :|"Am"EFG ABc| The problem is that syntactically, that "last time" is parsed as an accompaniment chord attached to the following E. To you and me, it's obviously not a chord, but most software doesn't know anything about what are legal chords. All a music formatter needs to do is put the text above the music; the text of the "chord" isn't important. But if you want the three lines of the ending bracket drawn above the staff, the parser has to have a way of knowing that this is text for an ending and not a chord. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
