In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I. Oppenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Dear abcusers, > >I hereby publicly release the third draft revision of >the ABC 2.0 standard: >http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html > >--- Due to popular demand, +...+ is now the preferred >syntax for notating decorations; !...! has been >deprecated, although it is still allowed. > >--- Backslash sequences have been added for notating >macrons, ogoneks, carons, breves, long Hungarian >umlauts, and dotted letters in a portable way. > >--- Quite a lot of PNG pictures have been added to >illustrate the different ABC constructs. > > >I would like to ask you all to read the proposed >standard. I would appreciate your constructive >criticism. > >The focus is now on finalizing this draft; therefore I >will be very reluctant with adding new features to the >standard as it is now. These will probably have to wait >for the next standardization attempt. > >Please help me with identifying the errors and the >mistakes in the draft. >
Errors: 1. In the table of ABC fields and their usage you have U:user defined still saying !trill! rather than +trill+ 2. In the section O: origin the "separator" is miss-spelled. 3. Shouldn't +..+ be deprecated for chords? Requests for clarification: 1. Section Ties and Slurs: What does it mean to have a slur ending and starting on the same note? eg (E) 2. What's a "roll" (+roll+ in the decorations)? I've checked 6 music dictionaries and books on notation and the only rolls mentioned are for timpani or other percussion and notated as either "tr" or a tremolo. 3. I don't understand the sentence in K:Key which reads "It is possible to use the format K:<tonic> <accidentals> to explicitly define all the accidentals of a mode: K:D b e ^f". But see my comment (2) below. 4. Continuation of input lines. The last sentence says "A double backslash (...) does not continue the current line but is interpreted as an actual backslash". But since an actual backslash means "continue the current line" this makes no sense. If a line is terminated with \\ then I would take that to mean the same as \. 5. No mention of midline Missing points: 1. No ability to change clef in non-voiced music, the clef change is only in the voicing section. This means you can't write music for viola or cello. Disagreements: 1. Unusual key signatures such as "K:D =c". In a previous standard this referred to a "global accidental" so that the key sig was D and every subsequent c was naturalised. Fine. Following the example in in "K: Key" that "K:Dphr ^f" would give a *key sig* of 2 flats and 1 sharp, this imples that the previously-quoted example "K:D =c" would have me put a key sig of F#, C# and then Cnat. Which if course is nonsense. Much more standard to implement as the paragraph above. 2. |: at the beginning of a section is not ugly. And I do not like being forced to accept incorrect notation in that if a |: is missing then the repeat should be made from the previous double bar. 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
