[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 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?
Well, when the first version of abc2ps came out with the w: feature, one of the first things that I tried was some songs that were aligned by phrases, without bar lines at the ends of staffs. I was duly impressed to find that it worked properly. I tested this partly because I was already aware that some musicians seemed to think that staffs had to have bar lines at the end, and some even think that bar lines are forbidden at the beginning. So I appreciated having a tool that doesn't impose some artificial rules based on someone's ideas of music notation based on a small sample from one or two musical styles. Anyway, most of the abc2ps clones should happily accept music with or without bar lines on either end of the staff. They mostly just do what you tell them, and don't "correct" your notation. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
