Dear Abcusers,
Thank you for your feedback. Based on your input (both
on and off-list) I have made the following
modifications to the standard.
-- The debated section on Key sigs reads now as
follows:
<<
By specifying K:none, it is possible to use no key
signature at all.
The key signatures may be modified by adding
accidentals, according to the format "K:<tonic> <mode>
<accidentals>". For example, "K:D Phr ^f" would give a
key signature with two flats and one sharp, which
designates a very common mode in e.g. Klezmer (Ahavoh
Rabboh) and in Arabic music (Maqam Hedjaz). Likewise,
"K:Dmaj =c" will give a key signature with f sharp and
c natural. Note that there can be several modifying
accidentals, separated by spaces, each beginning with
an accidental sign ('__', '_', '=', '^' or '^^'),
followed by a letter in lower case.
It is possible to use the format "K:<tonic> exp
<accidentals>" to explicitly define all the accidentals
of a key signature. Thus "K:D Phr ^f" could also be
notated as "K:D exp _b _e ^f", where 'exp' is an
abbreviation of 'explicit'.
Software that does not support explicit key signatures,
should mark the individual notes in the tune with the
accidentals that apply to them.
>>
I hope this solves most problems with the proposed
notation?
-- Moved section on clef specifier up to form it's own
section. Added stafflines specifier for percussion
notation. Added more examples illustrating how to
change the clef.
-- I've done away with the backquotes (`)
-- I added to the section on note lengths:
"Note lengths that can't be translated to conventional
staff notation are legal, but should be avoided." Also
gave A3/2 as an example.
-- I added to the meter section:
It is also possible to specify a complex meter, e.g.
M:(2+3+2)/8, to make explicit which beats should be
accented. The parentheses around the numerator are
optional.
The example given will be typeset as:
2 + 3 + 2
8
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As always, I'd like to read your comments.
You can read the whole file here:
http://www.joods.nl/~chazzanut/abc/abc2-draft.html
Groeten,
Irwin Oppenheim
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