On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:30:58 +0000 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's not clear to me what's the proper definition of > note tuples (such as triplets, etc.)
<snip> Well it's not clear to me what you want to know, but let me clear this up: > While the ABC standard: > http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/abc.txt > > tells the following: <snip> > (8 8 notes in the time of 3 <snip> > If the time signature is compound (3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 3/4, > etc.) then n is three, otherwise n is two. This simply defines what it means when you write "(8" in your abc code. It may seem to conflict with that other definition you found, since it claims "8 = 9". But abc also allows for a more detailed notation "(x:y:z" whis means "x notes in the time of y for the next z notes", so 8=9 could be written "(8:9:9" or simply "(8:9". The whole thing boils down to that the abc tuplet defaults (using only "x" from the "(x:y:z"-notation above) may not be the same as other definitions, but you should be able to get whatever tuplets you may want in abc by using the (x:y:z notation. Was that helpful??? -- peace, love & harmony Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
