I'm just catching up with the repeats/Extended Repeats thread - please 
forgive the following barrage of replies.  Some of the things discussed 
touch on the (perhaps over-elaborate) extended repeats proposal Andrew 
Baker and I floated here a couple of years ago ...

John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Conventional staff notation would have "1,3" and "2,4"
> under the ending brackets.  OTOH, you could use
>    |: b2 a | aba |1-3 c'2b | bc'b :|4 e'2d' | e'd'd' ||
> for a 4-times phrase with only the final ending different. And if you
> want to be really picky (and want to be able to match  printed  music as
>  closely  as  possible),  you'll  also  allow  a period after such
> numbers.  But there is a  potential  ambiguity  if  it's  immediately
> followed by a note without any spaces. A period in that case would be an
> ornament on the note.

The period here is just a display issue, yes?  I think the abc syntax 
should stick to describing the flow control. If what's printed is not 
what the renderer generates from the flow control specification, there 
should be a separate mechanism for specifying some other text. For 
example, I might prefer "Second time" instead of just "2". Thus:

|: AB | CD | EF |[1 GG :| [2"Second time" AA ||

cheers,
e.
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