> "John" == John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> My conclusion is that there's no standard for this among printers, at
John> least in the British Isles and North America. The best advice for
John> anyone implementing an ABC player would be to expect all of these,
Jack Campin writes:
| >> A somewhat trickier problem is that there's currently a fair amount
| >> of abc tunes that don't even use the initial repeat on second and
| >> later sections. Some users seems to think that :| is a fine way to
| >> start a repeated section.
| > This is also wh
Jack Campin wrote:
>Version 3 *should* produce an error warning, as there is an empty bar
>between lines 3 and 4; this is no different from writing the first two
>lines as
>
> A>ee e>fg|e>dB d>BG|A>ee e>fg|e>dB A3 |
> |a>aa g>ag|f>gf e>AA|A>ee e>fg|e>dB A3:|
>
>which BarFly correctly flags as an
Jack Campin says -
>repeat signs are bars,
I don't think so. At a quick glance, seven out of the first twelve tunes in the Northumbrian Piper's Tune Book have repeat symbols that don't coincide with bars.
>Also, if you want to reorganize the line breaks, you have to edit the
>adjacent :| and |:
>> A somewhat trickier problem is that there's currently a fair amount
>> of abc tunes that don't even use the initial repeat on second and
>> later sections. Some users seems to think that :| is a fine way to
>> start a repeated section.
> This is also what many printed sources do, e.
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