>While going through Jack's Embro... CD, I noticed that iabc will accept this:
>
>(abc)>d
>but chokes on this:
>(abc>)d
>
>I guess the thinking is that the '>' goes with the next thing, but the ')'
>goes with the previous thing. The latter to me would be equivalent to:
>abc_)d
>
>which is clearly wrong, since the flat goes with the 'd' but the ')' goes
>with the 'c'.
>
>Does anything written specify which way this is supposed to work?
The standard doesn't specify, so either is correct. The > and < symbols
belong equally to the two notes on either side, unlike the flat symbol.
You get a similar situation with grace notes, so abc{g}>d and abc>{g}d
are equivalent to one another.
Phil Taylor
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