http://abcnotation.com/wiki/ 2026-04-18T12:51:00+00:00 http://abcnotation.com/wiki/ http://abcnotation.com/wiki/_media/wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2023-08-18T14:30:21+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard?rev=1692369021&do=diff The abc standard This is the home page for the abc standard, the (semi-formal) description of the rules of abc. It contains links to different versions of the standard and to development work. If you wish to link to the standard, it is recommended that you link to this page, text/html 2021-07-07T12:36:03+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1:proposals:multi-voice_scope:v1?rev=1625661363&do=diff Scopes of Items in Multi-Voice Tunes Any item (i.e. field, decoration, annotation, bar line, voice parameter etc.) found in the body of an abc tune, and not being a capital W: field, belongs to one well-defined voice. If it has a meaning "from here on text/html 2021-07-07T12:35:30+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1:proposals:clefs_voice_parameters:v8?rev=1625661330&do=diff 4.6 Clefs and related topics 4.6.1 Staff lines, line numbers Voice parameters have the general syntax "keyword=value". The ones that concern us here, may occur interchangeably inside V: or K: fields (the latter only for practical reasons), separated from the other syntax elements by space characters. The syntax [K:keyword= text/html 2021-07-07T12:35:08+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1:proposals:clefs_voice_parameters:v1?rev=1625661308&do=diff 4.6 Voice Parameters Voice parameters have the general syntax "keyword=value". They may occur interchangeably inside V: or K: fields, separated from the other syntax elements by space characters. The syntax [K:keyword=value] is also legal and often preferred, since there is no principal difference to stand-alone fields. (The only exception is "middle=", for legacy reasons.) text/html 2021-07-07T12:32:54+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1:proposals:clefs_voice_parameters:v6?rev=1625661174&do=diff 4.6 Clefs and related topics 4.6.1 Staff lines, line numbers Voice parameters have the general syntax "keyword=value". The ones that concern us here, may occur interchangeably inside V: or K: fields (the latter only for practical reasons), separated from the other syntax elements by space characters. The syntax [K:keyword= text/html 2021-07-07T12:32:31+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1:proposals:clefs_voice_parameters:v7?rev=1625661151&do=diff 4.6 Clefs and related topics 4.6.1 Staff lines, line numbers Voice parameters have the general syntax "keyword=value". The ones that concern us here, may occur interchangeably inside V: or K: fields (the latter only for practical reasons), separated from the other syntax elements by space characters. The syntax [K:keyword= text/html 2021-07-07T12:31:04+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:updating?rev=1625661064&do=diff Updating the abc standard The abc standard is open to new proposals from anyone, although proposals require support from the abc user community before being incorporated. The aim of the following process is to provide an inclusive, transparent and considered method for updates to progress (and a procedure which doesn't have the bottleneck of requiring my input at every stage). text/html 2021-07-07T12:29:50+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.1?rev=1625660990&do=diff The abc music standard 2.1 (Dec 2011) Chris Walshaw abcnotation.com/contact chriswalshaw.co.uk Contents * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * text/html 2021-07-07T12:26:53+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:v2.2?rev=1625660813&do=diff The DRAFT abc music notation standard 2.2 Chris Walshaw abcnotation.com/contact chriswalshaw.co.uk Rationale and development notes Originally intended as a minor fix (version 2.1.1) to resolve some of the VOLATILE issues in clefs and transposition from version 2.1, it has taken such a long time, with protracted discussions about transposition (and long silences by the editor), that the intention is to publish this draft as abc version 2.2. text/html 2021-07-07T12:22:24+00:00 cwalshaw (cwalshaw@undisclosed.example.com) http://abcnotation.com/wiki/abc:standard:route-map?rev=1625660544&do=diff Route-map for the abc standard From the discussions that emerged over 2.1 it is clear that a number of changes and enhancements are necessary for the abc standard. However, I am reluctant to do them all in one go, so a proposed route-map of is given below together with some