On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:23:26PM +0100, Bernard Hill wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Bernard Hill writes: > >| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >writes > >| > > >| >If I had my druthers, I'd put a rule in saying that beginnings of > >| >repeated sections *must* be marked properly. But of course that's > >| >dreaming yet another impossible dream. > >| > >| Well in Music Publisher it refuses to play the music observing the > >| repeats until you *have* put a |: in. (Excepting the first repeat of > >| course). And I don't expect to remove that restriction. > > > >What I've thought a player should do if any phrase after the first is > >missing its initial repeat is to split into a "polyphonic" mode and > >start playing simultaneously from the beginning and just after the > >last end-repeat. This would be an accurate rendition of how a group > >of musicians would be expected to read such notation. > > ROFL! > > > >(Also known as "Hey, let's play it as a round!" ;-)
Another fine product for abc international. Reminds me, I still haven't got round to that random pipe-march generator. This is probably a Good Thing. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
