Hello,
I've been following the last week's discussions, and it has been very interesting in
many ways. Half a year ago or so, I thought that the list had finally died completely,
but it's great to see it revived again!
I'm transcribing a Swedish tunebook ("Gotlandstoner", folk tunes from Gotland
collected by August Fredin in late 1900 century of about 850 tunes) into ABC. When I
started, there were lots and lots of stuff that I couldn't write in ABC beacuse I
didn't know how to. The 1.6 standard didn't cover what I needed, and the 1.7.6 draft
wasn't clear enough. So the new upcoming standard is really a great thing for me: I
can almost write a 1:1 translation of the source into ABC, without having to invent
new things myself and hope that they would be understood by the [eventual] readers.
Thank you!
Now, I have a question on the Irish roll sign (~). It defaults to +roll+ (i guess, it
doesn't say explicitly which +...+ symbol it maps to. Maybe that would be a good
idea?).
Section 4.14 of the new standard says "+roll+ a roll mark (arc) as used in Irish
music", and the example picture shows an "arc". In all printed Irish music I've seen
(though I haven't seen *that* much), rolls are drawn as a +turn+, almost like a
rotated 8 sign. Which is why, I suppose, Chris W. chose the tilde ~ as roll symbol in
the Beginning.
Erik Ronstr�m
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