Hi, John and list--

Score11, a score preprocessor which I have used in 3 of my 4 Csound
pieces, outputs a line beginning with "c" (for comment) every time it
generates a (random) *rest* note. It does this by outputting a normal
looking "i" line and adding a "c" immediately before the "i".

Actually, it is simple enough to go through and manually delete all such
lines (particularly since "" is also added at line's end) prior to
"perfing" the score.

I also note that the old "scot" did output lines beginning with "c" as
well. Anybody still using this?

I imagine that "c" was used back in the days where all new
(non-continuation) score lines had to begin with an *alpha* opcode--and
"c" was the dedicated "Comment" opcode. (This was certainly true back in
the Music11/Music360 days.)

Please let me know what you decide because, as far as Score11 is
concerned, I have material going into the Boulanger CD describing
Score11 and how to use it with Csound. Right now the material states
that "*optionally* you may delete the comment ("c") lines before perf."
This would need to be changed to "you *must* delete the "rest" lines."
I'll look forward to hearing from you as soon as the issue is decided.

jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Date:     Mon, 11 May 98 10:34:45 BST
> From: jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk
> Subject:  Undocumented facility, anyone use?
> To: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk
> 
> Message written at 11 May 1998 09:32:43 +0100
> 
> reading the sources of Csound, a habit I really must break, I noticed
> that at least in some cases the character 'c' starts a comment as well
> as ';', but I cannot find this in teh documentation.  Actually i
> wanted to use 'c' for a new facility in the score, (which would make
> writing my latest work easier), but then I do not want to destroy
> previously running scores.
> 
> Does anyone know about this, or use it?  If it has no real existence I
> will release my newer score-reader with c meaning something else.
> 
> Advice please.
> ==John ffitch
> 
> PS I realise that the [] and changes to \ break some old scores.  I
> have an untested fix for that here.