James Allwright wrote:

 >The inconsistency is deliberate. The point is that when you play
 >a hornpipe or anything else with dotted rhythm (or swing, or
 >whatever you want to call it), keeping a 3:1 ratio is rather
 >harder than keeping a 2:1 ratio and doesn't really add much
 >musically apart from a certain pedantic pleasure in knowing that
 >you are playing exactly what your notation says. This is why
 >abc2midi makes the assumption that a>b is meant to be played as
 >a 2:1 ratio. I think this is in accordance with the original
 >spirit of '>' even if this is not spelt out in the standard.

It sounds like you're saying that ">" cannot be used to notate the
first notes of "Mari's Wedding" to play as I've always heard it
played. This would be unacceptable.

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