From: "John Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Actually, Gardner Read is the one who's mistaken here. ;-) Musicians > can and do play chords on several instruments with notes terminating > at different times. Publishers can and do print music with note heads > of different lengths on the same stem. Mr. Read can't prevent either > of these practices.
I can't stop someone spelling "infinite" as "infinate" and apparently lots of people do. This is not a reason to copy them, encourage the practice, or have it added to dictionaries. Gardner and Bernard are quite correct, and with good reason. If one has, for example, a minim and a crotchet attached to the same stem, who is to say where the following note should be played - a crotchet later or a minim later? >.....It makes little sense to tell authors or customers that you won't print representations of some music because you think that such music is illegal. They'll just give you a funny look.< If you were to copy a passage in which the (non) word "infinate" had been written and did not change it to "infinite", I suspect you'd get funnier looks than if you wrote it out correctly. If you just want to copy the graphic image of music, then a photocopier is a better tool than abc. Dave David Webber Author MOZART the music processor for Windows - http://www.mozart-music-software.com For discussion/support see http://www.mozart-music-software.com/mzusers/mailinglist.htm To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
