Laurie Griffiths wrote: > "Shortest determines length" works because you can always add a rest to > delay things, but we don't have negative rests to make things happen sooner. > e.g. [G4B]zcd (melody is Bzcd)
Or even an invisible rest [G4B]xcd in some cases. > "Melody note first" pretty much demands "shortest determines length" (or > else some new mechanism such as numbers after the close bracket) because the > melody note may be longer than the accompaniment. Very good point. Henrik Norbeck, Stockholm, Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swipnet.se/hnorbeck/ My home page http://home.swipnet.se/hnorbeck/abcmus/ AbcMus player program http://home.swipnet.se/hnorbeck/abc.htm >1600 ABC tunes http://surf.to/blackthorn Irish trad music band http://www.rfod.se/folklink/ Links to Swedish music To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html