Do we lose anything if we couple this to M:none? or do we need to be able to specify
both a meter (M:C comes to mind) and separately the behaviour of accidentals?


Laura Conrad wrote:

I don't see any discussion of the relationship between accidentals and
barlines.  This is important, because in order to translate ABC, which
records the appearance of a note in staff notation, into, e.g., MIDI
or lilypond, which records the absolute pitch of the note, you need to
know how long an accidental persists.  The _de facto_ standard, as
introduced by me into both abc2midi and abc2ly, is that the directive:

%%MIDI nobarlines

indicates that there are no barlines dividing the measures, so an
accidental applies only to the note it's on, and not to all the notes
until the end of the piece.  It's really necessary to be able to
specify this.




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