On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:07:16PM +0000, John Chambers wrote: > Richard Robinson writes: > | > > | > Of course, such searches are always prone to failure > | > because people just give the wrong key. It's common to see > | > K:G for tunes in E minor or A dorian. There's not a lot we > | > can do about this except try to educate people. > | > | If I had them locally (the tunes, not the people) it might be worth > | considering a single-character key sig as a flag for "this might > | need changing" :-) > > Well, this might not be all that bad an idea. I've thought > that it would be nice if a transcriber could write > something like: > > K:?Adorian > > This would mean that the transcriber is guessing the key. > The software would just ignore the '?', of course, and give > ^f as the signature. But it would warn interested readers > (humand and software) that the transcriber had some doubt > about the accuracy of the key. > > Implementing this would be easy for most abc software: Just > ignore the '?'.
Yes. There's nothing to prevent K:Adorian % ??? is there ? Though some GUI software may hide it, I suppose, I don't know (I prefer to use a few of them, to avoid textual "?"s in searches). But it might be nicer if we could put it/them straight in the fieldvalue and have it ignored. But, if in, say, a T:, it wouldn't want to be ignored to the extent of not getting printed ... -- 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
