----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] bar lines and lyrics
> 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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
