On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: > 1. In the table of ABC fields and their usage you have U:user defined > still saying !trill! rather than +trill+ Fixed.
> 2. In the section O: origin the "separator" is miss-spelled. Fixed. > 3. Shouldn't +..+ be deprecated for chords? It has been deprecated since ages. If people think it is useful, I will add a note about it. > 1. Section Ties and Slurs: What does it mean to have a slur ending and > starting on the same note? eg (E) You may just ignore it. However, packages that support Gregorian notation (i.e. Barfly) will attach meaning to this. > 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. It seems to have something to do with Irish music. There is a picture of it in the symbols table. > 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. An unfortunate typo. It should have been: K:D _b _e ^f Fixed. > 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 \. No, an actual backslash is a backslash that is interpreted as text, rather than as a continuation mark. E.G: W: this line ends in a back-shlash\\ Of course, this will only make sense in string fields, and not in general, so I will take this comment out of this section to prevent further confusion. Fixed. > 5. No mention of midline What do you mean? > 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. Please explain me what non-voiced music is, and how we should deal with it. > 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. Nope. There are to supported syntaxes: [A] K:<tonic><mode> <accidentals> [B] K:<tonic> <accidentals> Syntax A will _modify_ the key signature of the mode given, rather than simply append accidentals to it. Example: K:Dmaj =c % will give F# Cnat Syntax B, which only contains the name of the tonic, and does not imply a mode, will allow you to spell out a key signature in full: K:D ^f =c % same meaning as above Note that in syntax B the tonic may be basically ignored by the parser; the tonic is only there to make the notation comprehensible to other users. Groeten, Irwin Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~* Chazzanut Online: http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
