[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I contend that the most natural thing to record > is fret position, course number, and flag duration (if a flag is given).
but, a responsible program will of course record much much more information so that it can format things exactly as they were last edited. When arbitrary horizontal spacing is supported, some spacing informatino would be recorded. When anotations such as grace note symbols, bars, repeat symbols, illustrations, composers name, title, lyrics etc are used these must be recorded. These additional items are all very important, but many of them have no musical semantic, some of them have semantic, but perhaps something most programs wont support in playback (eg, shakes, fallbacks etc). I would expect an interchange format to allow comments with internal, program- specific semantic (like structured comments in the language postscript) for this. Some programs might provide for 'extra' spacing on each 'tic' (hmm, in my parlance a 'tic' is one or more stops with optional flag, or a bar, or a mensural symbol or a 'word' of lyric ...) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
