[abcusers] explicit !break!

2003-07-06 Thread I. Oppenheim
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Tom Keays wrote: You're getting away from the original intent of abc i.e., that the abc transcription be HUMAN-readable. Humans don't require explicit !break! commands if there is a newline. That is exactly my point: most ABC users cannot care less where the exact

Re: [abcusers] explicit !break!

2003-07-06 Thread Tom Keays
on 7/6/03 3:33 PM, I. Oppenheim wrote: a) There's a lot of ABC already in existence that depends on that assumption. As I said already, I seriously doubt that. Tunes for which the linebreaks are important for some reason or another, should make them explicit. No really. Look at all the

Re: [abcusers] explicit !break!

2003-07-06 Thread Calum Galleitch
On Sunday 06 July 2003 8:33 pm, I. Oppenheim wrote: a) There's a lot of ABC already in existence that depends on that assumption. As I said already, I seriously doubt that. Tunes for which the linebreaks are important for some reason or another, should make them explicit. As Tom says,

Re: [abcusers] explicit !break!

2003-07-06 Thread Henrik Norbeck
Tom Keays wrote: No really. Look at all the Irish tunes on the web that are set in phrases of four or eight bars so that you can see the patterns in the tunes. Well in the case of my transcriptions this is not important to me. Most of them happen to have 4 bars per line in the abc, but that's