At 08:13 PM 05-24-2002 +0100, Phil Taylor you wrote: > > That said, how deeply is the invisible rest embedded in abc? I had > >the impression it was introduced to get around the limitations of the > >guitar chord mechanism. If ever one could rationalize that... > >No, it's more important than that. In multivoice abc, when you merge >two voices onto one staff you often need to suppress rests in one of >the voices, but they still have to play and they're still needed to >align the voices correctly. You would probably have even more need for >this in a percussion score.
Hmmm, from the point of view that abc should describe the music, not describe how it looks in another notation, this doesn't work well for me. My understanding of this means that if I had two voices: K: clef=treble [V:1 part=tenor] abza|bzab|zabz| [V:2 part=alto] efgz|efgz|efgz| the stardard way to notate that one one staff would be to have the only displayed rest be the final rest, which is shared by both notes? To get that in abc, one would have to write: K: clef=treble [V1: part=tenor] abxa|bxab|xabz [V2: part=alto] efgx|efgx|efgz or something, to suppress lots of spurious rests? But if I pull out and print the tenor part separately, I get garbage. The way I want to play it is as in my first version. Why can't software which is designed to print standard notation from ABC know it's not supposed to display rests where they would be superfluous when merging staves? >Phil Taylor > >(Trying again:-) > > >To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
