Arent Storm wrote: >* ~ I always thought that ~ is used for a prall-trill by default. >Hardly anybody will know what an Irish-roll is (is it eatable?)
I'll bet there are at least a hundred times as many abc users who know what an Irish Roll is as there are those who recognise what a prall-trill is. Actually, I think the English word for it is Pralltriller, but most people would call it an upper mordent, and in abc it's normally represented by the letter P. The meaning of ~ is context-dependent. In classical music it will mean a turn (that's what the symbol looks like), and in most places a turn symbol in the staff notation will be correct. What kind of twiddle gets played depends on the tradition that the music comes from. >* clefs: >Is "K: Am transpose=-2 " illegal where "K: Am treble transpose=-2 " is not No. transpose (or t=) is a directive which affects only playing and has nothing to do with clefs, so both are legal. >''clef'' starts the specication (I'd rather like to see clef=clefname than clef >alone Why? The clef names "treble", "alto", "tenor" and "bass" are all unique identifiers which can't mean anything but a clef, so clef= is redundant. More complicated clef specifications should use the clef= syntax though. >*voices >state that all voices to be mentioned in the abc-body have to be declared >in the >header when using the [V:ID] syntax, where each ID will be referenced over and >over. It's good practice, but I don't see why it should be mandatory. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
