In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wil Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Actually as a performer and software author who has an interest in old >manuscripts, I want to >see how the tune was notated, and then I'll make up my own mind want I >mean when I play the >tune. Lack of repeat starts means the information as to how the tune >was to be played has >to be derived from the structure of the music in the context of the >tradition in which the >music was created (<gasp!> Folk music </gasp!>). Strictly speaking you >are correct, >but the 'incorrect' notation may accurately reflect the way music was >notated for in >the time and place it was recorded (which may not be the same as when it >was >composed).
Fine. But how do you want software to behave? - that's the point! So it stops and asks you to clarify. You can clarify by changing the abc notation or in the case of a program which can edit the on-screen music (eg Music Publisher or Dave Webber's Mozart) you can do it to the music on the screen. Music Publisher will happily put on screen what you write in abc format. But it won't play it with the repeats until you clarify. >From what Dave Webber is saying, Mozart *will* play, until it gets confused (read:an impossible or ambiguous instruction) and then stops. For both programs, correct the music and they're happy. Isn't this a completely reasonable way to carry on? 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
