Henrik Norbeck writes: | Laurie Griffiths wrote: | > "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.
Indeed. It sounds like the most useful rules would be: 1. The first note in a chord is to be considered the melody note by programs that need a melody note. The rest of the notes may be given in any order without affecting the meaning. 2. A chord may have a length after the closing ']'. This is used to determine when the next note or chord starts, and may be different from any or all of the chord's notes. 3. If there is no such chord length, the chord's length is the length of the shortest note. Longer notes will overlap with whatever comes next. This would mean that I'd need to hunt down and modify the cases where I've "taken advantage of" abc2ps's use of the first note's length as the chord's length. I don't mind doing this, since the above rules do make a lot of sense. But I'd rather see a consensus on this first, so I don't have to redo them all again later. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
