No idea what iabc does but what Muse2 does (trying to get it out the door this week) is that the bars are numbered:
|: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |1 8 :| 8 | 9 | 10 etc. You could call them 8a and 8b I guess, and when unrolled they'd become sort of |: 1&9 | 2&10 | ... | 7&15 |1 8 :| 16 | 17 | 18 etc. In Muse2 the bar numbers are just so that you can find your way around some piece like say a chorus of the Messiah (which incidentally repeats endlessly but never quite the same so has no repeat marks) so that you can say "bar 34" and someone else knows where you mean. It's convenient to have the program do the counting for you. "first time bar 8" would be a reasonable way to do that for a variant repeat. Of course if someone produces two harmony parts, one of which is written with repeats and one not then confusion will erupt when one talks about bar 15 second repeat and the other talks about bar 31. Then there's Mozart's famous piece that can be played by two musicians, one reading the score upside down and back to front.... Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] repeats and bar numbers Is this incorrect? They're 2 different bars, if I were reading the music I'd expect them to have different numbers, if they're numbered at all. Maybe I'm missing the point? What you describe is how iabc does it. > But please when doing 1st and 2nd repeats, it screws up the > bar numbering. [1 might be bar 8, > [2 will be numbered 9. But I want them both numbered 8 ! 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
