The quirk I'm wrestling with today is Continuation Lines, which seems to be
the biggest single area (and the biggest can of worms on the list archive)
where the 1.6 & 1.76 specs seriously conflict with the 2.0 draft spec.
This is very true; conversely it was one of the biggest improvements in clarity of 2.0 over 1.76
I seem to remember there was some discussion of this issue when the new standard was discussed extensively, and I don't want to start this all over again, but since I came across at least one case where I could do something easily with the old specification which is messy with the new one, I wonder whether it would not be practicable to at least distinguish between 'music' and 'other' lines for continuation? (Whew, what a sentence, you can tell I'm german, can't you ;) )
I imagine this could be useful for
- long lines of music with words to only a few notes - mid-line changes of key or meter - mid-line program-specific directives e.g. for abcmidi
I am by no means a heavy user of abc, but I've come across all three of the above situations within the twenty or so tunes I've entered so far.
On the other hand, I can't think of any situation where treating a line of music and another line beginning e.g. with 'w:' or 'K:' or 'M:' or '%%midi' as one line would be of any use.
Maybe someone could state shortly why distinguishing between 'music' and 'other' lines for continuation is a bad idea?
Thanks and regards,
Manuel
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