On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Bernard Hill wrote: > >[K: clef=bass] or [K: bass] is legal. > Is it? I couldn't find it. > > Anyway the midline field attempted to define the middle line of say the > bass clef as D or "D," to avoid too many leger lines. I never liked it > anyway so glad it's gone.
It's not gone! you can still type: [K: bass middle=D transpose=-2] or whatever you like. BTW, There is no difference between what you can achieve with separate K: lines and [K:] midline fields > >So [K: clef=alto] or [K: alto] will do the job. > > Then it should not be a subheading of the Multiple Voices section, That is a good point! I'll put it into a separate section. > but explicitly part of the K: Key section. No, clef/middle/transpose can be used both with K:, and V: fields. > Or at least say "the syntax is > > [K: | V:] [clef=] <clef name> .. etc" NB: You may mix the clef specifiers with the special specifiers of the K: and V: fields. > I looked in vain for any examples such as you have written above: the > context indicated it was firmly fixed to V: notation. The section already contained this example: [V:Clarinet] [K:C transpose=-2] > >Of course, we could introduce a %% directive like > >%%global-accidentals 1 > >to change the standard interpretation of the [K:] > >field. > > > >Should I add that? > > No. I suggest you allow software to create either individual (global) > accidentals or strange key sigs. My own software (to which abc is simply > an add-on importing/exporting module) does not support strange key sigs > so I will have to do this anyway. I will add a note about this. 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
