On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bert Van Vreckem wrote: > 1. Information Fields section: can the additional notes on fields be put > in alphabetical order?
I preferred to deal with them in logical, rather than alphabetical order > 2. Note lengths: seems to be incomplete. There's no mention of things > like A3/2, only in the broken rhythm example. A3/2 should obviously be > parsed, but how far should an abc program go? Is A1531/3001 valid or > not? Best to clarify this and define what's legal and what not. In principal all fractions are allowed. However, most programs, especially notation programs, may only want to deal with lengths that can be notated as a single note, possibly dotted. I will add a note about this. > (CD (EF) GA) I would say this should be interpreted as: __ CD EF GA -------- While: (CD (E) FG) should be equivalent with (CD E FG) > 5. Annotations: "Using the '@' symbol leaves the exact placing of the > string to the discretion of the interpreting program." This doesn't help > me to understand how to use the @-symbol. Is this not part of the > standard? Could you an example be included to clarify things? "@Slow!" +pp+ CD EF GA The typesetter may now choose to print the annotation "@Slow!" either above or below the note, depending on the position of other symbols such as +pp+. > 6. Clefs: a typo below "transpose=<semitones>": effect instead of affect Fixed. > 7. Deprecated continuations: "the following fragment of code [...] was > considered to be equivalent to [...]" but no further explanation. If it > is not equivalent anymore, what's the difference? Or is any of the two > notations illegal in the new standard? Please clarify. Since the \ continuation mechanism has changed in the new standard, the examples given in the section "Deprecated continuations", will no longer work. Actually, at the moment there are no two ABC programs that interpret the \ in exactly the same way. The reason is that the old rule was *so* complicated, that no one interpreted it the same. That was the main reason to change the rule to something simple, that everyone can understand and use. > 8. Stylesheet specification: Could you add an example of the use of $1-$4? There is an example in the lyrics section: gf|e2dc B2A2|B2G2 E2D2|.G2.G2 GABc|d4 B2 w: Sa-ys my au-l' wan to your aul' wan\ Will~ye come to the $3Wa-x-ies$0 dar-gle? This would work together with something like: %%setfont-3 Helvetica-Bold 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
