I think what happened is that the standard allows for continuation with a line using '\', but doesn't say anything about what happens if a line doesn't end in a bar line. At first I generated an error for that, but then I realized a lot of people wrote their abc that way, and this seemed like an OK way to handle it.
I've never seen music written without the end of a line ending a bar. But I am not a music scholar like many people on this page, so maybe its a common practice. In any case, does this cause a problem? For an example of this file in iabc, see: http://abc.sourceforge.net/benbow2.gif and http://abc.sourceforge.net/benbow.gif A. In a message dated 11/23/2002 12:28:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Some of our abc has been alinged to lyrics rather than to the end of > bars. Here is an example: > > X:1 ... > > A couple of our contributers prefer lyrics aligned this way and it has > been > pointed out that the practice of presenting songs in this way has > existed for at least 50 years. > > Now for the problem: It has been questioned whether abc presented in > this manner conforms to the abc draft standard and it has been pointed > out that iabc puts a bar line at the end of each staff regardless of > whether one is present at the end of the abc line (other probgrams like > abcm2ps and skink leave the line open). I've tried reading through the > draft and I can't see that we are doing anything wrong and my feeling is > that iabc is a little unuasual in its handling of this issue > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
