In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>> There are lots of abc2win files on the net which use the exclamation >>> mark for a different purpose >> Can you be specific there? As a developer I'd like to know! > >It's a line terminator. In ABC2Win, it's the only way to start >a new line of staff notation at a user-defined point, which is >unfortunately non-standard. But having a line terminator is a >great help in resolving the conflict between making ABC source- >readable and having it generate readable staff notation. > >[warning, if you are not using a fixed-width > font, what follows will be incomprehensible] > >Consider this, from the Aird volume 1 transcription on my website, >laid out for optimal source readbility: > >X:34 >T:Thro' the Lang Muir. >T:Wandering Willie >M:6/8 >L:1/8 >K:EMin % dorian/minor/phrygian pentatonic
>Bee Te2d |ege dBG|Bee Te2d |BAG E3:| >BGG G>AG|BAG ABd|BAG G>AG|ABG E3 | >BAG GAG |BAG ABd|Bee e2d |BAG E3|] > >As it stands, four bars to a staff line is too little. What I'd >like is to put the tune on two six-bar lines. BarFly unfortunately >doesn't use ! the way ABC2Win does, so I have to write this: > >X:34 >T:Thro' the Lang Muir. >T:Wandering Willie >M:6/8 >L:1/8 >K:EMin % dorian/minor/phrygian pentatonic >Bee Te2d |ege dBG|Bee Te2d |BAG E3:|\ >BGG G>AG|BAG ABd| > BAG G>AG|ABG E3 |\ >BAG GAG |BAG ABd|Bee e2d |BAG E3|] > Um. I must be missing something. Isn't Bee Te2d |ege dBG|Bee Te2d |BAG E3:|BGG G>AG|BAG ABd| BAG G>AG|ABG E3 |BAG GAG |BAG ABd|Bee e2d |BAG E3|] the simplest??? Bernard Hill Braeburn Software Author of Music Publisher system Music Software written by musicians for musicians http://www.braeburn.co.uk Selkirk, Scotland To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
