I am not a programmer, but I have been a musician for many years, and I am just starting to use the 'magic' of ABC. I am just beginning to really appreciate the effort that has gone into its development, and what a wonderful tool it is. I promised myself that I would stay out of this, but...
At some point, someone (I lost track of who) wrote: > > The only "user friendly" approach is to allow ties between different > > notes and slurs between identical notes. Anything else is merely > > harrassing your users with silly intellectual hair splitting. This is anything but silly intellectual hair splitting... It is just simply incorrect to not make the normal distinction between ties and slurs in any form of musical notation (which does include ABC), and, worst of all, ultimately confusing to users if improper usage is allowed. Ties and slurs are not the same thing, nor are they intended to be, nor were they ever intended to be so far as I know. To not make the correct distinction is just simply unnecessary, in my opinion, and will continue to promote sloppy, or lazy, or ignorant, or individualistic, or non-standard, or what ever you want to call it, practices in writing ABC. It's obvious from the continued discussion that this just make life harder for everyone. Why not just do it correctly and be done with it once and for all? Perhaps my inexperience with the traditional uses of ABC showing? I don't mean to offend anyone, and I offer my apologies if through some manifestation of ignorance or misunderstanding I have done so. Pardon my rant, and now off my box, Don To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
