[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
I'm afraid I can't even read music properly so I can't advise. I have tried looking through my song books and I can't manage to find any example with split bars. The thought seemed to be that closing the line with a bar line and then having a short bar on the next line looks wrong. An example of the way abcm2ps handles this abc is at http://www.folkinfo.org/abctest/getpng.php?SongID=108 In view of Phil Taylors coments, I think I might try to persuade people to align to bars any way. The problem I have with doing this is imposing rules where our abc appears to be valid to cater for other software. In this case, Bar Fly sounds like a big worry (which ever of abcm2ps or iabc is right, I think a user could understand what was intended). I don't want to end up in a situation where I keep saying we need to go back and change or have a long list of rules for posts at folkinfo for fear of loosing all contibuters. Jon To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
