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Re: Your favourite/most efficient methods of inputting scores (piano)?


From: Kieren MacMillan
Subject: Re: Your favourite/most efficient methods of inputting scores (piano)?
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:34:13 -0500

Hi all,

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 5:35 AM, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>   | % 41
>   d4 d d d
> 
> This makes the input file vertically "longer", but usually that doesn't 
> matter. The advantage is that it makes it very clear visually what happens, 
> and (if you use that) it gives very good commits to a version control system 
> such as Git.
> 
> The sample includes another recommendation: Specify the duration at the 
> beginning of each line, even if it's not technically necessary. This makes it 
> more obvious on first sight, and it helps avoid errors if you should change 
> anything later.

+1 to both of these. I’m slowly updating all my old scores/code to this 
standard.
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